TY - BOOK AU - Fitz-Gibbon, Kate AU - McCulloch, Jude AU - Maher, JaneMaree AU - Walklate, Sandra TI - Strangulation, risk and intimate partner violence PY - 2018/// CY - Melbourne, Vic : PB - Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre, KW - CRIMINAL JUSTICE KW - CRIMES ACT 1961 KW - DOMESTIC VIOLENCE KW - FAMILY VIOLENCE KW - FAMILY VIOLENCE (AMENDMENT) ACT 2018 KW - INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE KW - LAW REFORM KW - LEGISLATION KW - STRANGULATION KW - AUSTRALIA KW - NEW ZEALAND KW - VICTORIA N2 - 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 UR - https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/Strangulation_risk_and_intimate_partner_violence/8379068 ER -