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Fitz-Gibbon, Kate

Strangulation, risk and intimate partner violence Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Jude McCulloch, JaneMaree Maher, Sandra Walklate - Melbourne, Vic : Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre, 2018 - electronic document (2 pages) ; PDF file - Research brief (Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre) .

This Research Brief examines the definition of non-fatal strangulation, how it has come to be understood as a key risk of intimate partner homicide, and legal responses to non-fatal strangulation in Australia and other jurisdictions, including New Zealand. In New Zealand, strangulation and suffocation will be recognised as a serious new offence in the Crimes Act 1961. The offence was introduced by the Family Violence (Amendment) Act 2018, and will come into force on 3 December 2018. Record #6061

Subjects--Topical Terms:
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
CRIMES ACT 1961
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
FAMILY VIOLENCE
FAMILY VIOLENCE (AMENDMENT) ACT 2018
INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
LAW REFORM
LEGISLATION
STRANGULATION

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
AUSTRALIA
NEW ZEALAND
VICTORIA