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Australian violence : contemporary perspectives II

Duncan Chappell and Sandra J Egger (eds.)
ISBN 0 642 20298 2
Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, 1995

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Abstract

The chapters in this book are based on papers presented at the Second National Conference on Violence convened by the Australian Institute of Criminology in Canberra, June 1993. They encompass the following issues: the role of the law and police in domestic violence; young people and violence; racist violence; child abuse; masculinity and the role of men in preventing violence; alcohol and violence; firearms; suicide; and policy and prevention issues.

Contents

• Contributors (PDF 12kB)
• Preface: an overview of violence in Australia
  Sandra J Egger
• Opening address
  The Hon Bill Hayden

Part I : patterns and issues

How violent is Australian society?
Duncan Chappell
• The monitoring by police of racist violence in the community
  Liz de Rome and Chris Cunneen
• Youth violence : myth and reality
  Kenneth Polk
• Child abuse homicides in Australia : incidence, circumstances, prevention and control
  Heather Strang
• Domestic violence victims in emergency departments
  Gwenneth Roberts
• Young people and violence : a focus on schools (a report of a pilot study)
  Judith Bessant and Rob Watts
• No-man's-land : negotiating spaces for women and men in war and peace
  Stephen Wallace
• Pro-feminist educational programs run by men for male offenders : is it wise? is it possible?
  Ron Frey and Chris Bellotti
• Alcohol and its contribution to violence : new directions for policing alcohol-related violence, crime and anti-social behaviour in New South Wales
  C S (Steve) Ireland
• Survivors of self-inflicted firearm injury : a liaison psychiatry perspective
  Greg M de Moore, Jeff D Plew, Karina M Bray, and Jeff N Snars

Part II : prevention and policy

• Violence against women : a social responsibility
  Rosemary Crowley
• Domestic violence and defiance theory : understanding why arrest can backfire
  Lawrence W Sherman
• Masculinities, violence and communitarian control
  John Braithwaite and Kathleen Daly
• The cycle of violence
  Cathy Spatz Widom
• Violence and masculinity : a commentary
  Sandra J Egger
• Alternative dispute resolution in Aboriginal and Islander communities : the Community Justice Program's experience
  Christine Nolan
• The voice of the rapist
  Jocelynne Scutt
• Partnership for personal safety: preventing violent crime in and around licensed premises : an exemplary project of the South Australian Crime Prevention Strategy
  Jane Fisher
• Creating safer communities
  Judith Dixon
• Measures to reduce violence at major public events : new year's eve
  Neil Mellor
• Police use of firearms : issues in safety
  Rick Sarre
• Violence in Australia : a bibliography: 1990s update
  Judith Iltis

Related links

• Conference papers: Second national conference on violence