Victoria Police may soon be able to issue final intervention orders on the spot, but will this help victim-survivors?
- Written by Ellen Reeves, Postdoctoral fellow, Monash University
Police responses to family violence have long been the subject of scrutiny. Effective policing can play a key role in protecting victim-survivors and holding perpetrators accountable. Most recently across Australia, there has been heated debate about the criminalisation of coercive control.
Advocates argue that creating specific laws for patterns...