Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Program
The Domestic and Family Violence (DFV) Death Review Program is a partnership between the Australian Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Network (the Network) and ANROWS. The partnership produces landmark research exploring DFV-related deaths in Australia.
Past and current research
Filicides in a domestic and family violence context 2010–2018
Completed: July 2024
This report presents the first national figures for filicides that have occurred in Australia in the context of domestic and family violence (DFV). In this research, DFV context means the filicide was preceded by an identifiable history of child abuse, intimate partner violence, or both.
The report examines the characteristics of filicide victims and offenders, as well as some of the broader characteristics of filicide. In doing so, this report adds to the national knowledge base of DFV-context filicide and the drivers of DFV.
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Intimate partner violence homicides 2010-2018
Completed: March 2022
ANROWS and the Network worked in collaboration to update the Australian Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Network Data Report 2018 to include intimate partner homicide data from July 2010 to June 2018.
The study used a retrospective population-based case series analysis to examine the deaths of people who were killed by their current or former intimate partner following a history of domestic violence in Australia between 1 July 2010 and 30 June 2018. The data are sourced through death review teams in each Australian jurisdiction, and draw on coronial files, briefs of evidence, police reports, media reporting, sentencing remarks and agency records.
Researchers
Project leads
Australian Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Network
ANROWS
Research team:
The Australian Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Network, consisting of
ANROWS Death Review team
Victorian Systemic Review of Family Violence Deaths, Coroners Court of Victoria
Domestic Violence Death Review Team, NSW Department of Communities and Justice
Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Unit, Coroners Court of Queensland
Australian Capital Territory, Domestic and Family Violence Death Review, Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Office, Community Services Directorate
Downloads
RESEARCH REPORT
Australian Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Network data report: Filicides in a domestic and family violence context 2010–2018
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RESEARCH REPORT
Australian Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Network Data Report: Intimate partner violence homicides 2010–2018
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See also
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