Global Perspectives on Intimate Partner Violence

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract

Violence against women is a global problem of enormous proportions. Violence against women costs the world a staggering $6.3 trillion each year. Intimate partner violence is the most common form of violence against women. The risk of intimate partner violence, measured in term of deaths and injuries, is far greater than that of public terrorism, though the latter is the centre of western country's security agendas. Each week in Australia at least one woman is killed by a man, typically an intimate (ex)partner. Worldwide two thirds of the victims of intimate partner homicides are women (United Nations 2015). The panel locates the issue of intimate partner violence in a global frame. It questions the priority given to ‘public terrorism’ over the ‘private terrorism’ of intimate partner violence, compares the responses and challenges of intimate partner violence between countries and in rural, virtual and urban spaces. The panel also considers the missed opportunities to prevent intimate partner homicides by examining the context in which these lethal events occur and argues for a more proactive approach to the risk of intimate partner homicide.

Sub Unit

• Area XI: Global Perspectives / 66: International Perspectives

Individual Presentations

• Risking women's lives: comparing the tolerance or risk to private and public terrorism - Jude McCulloch, Monash University

• The foreknowledge of risk and the preventability of lethal domestic violence against women: A case study analysis - Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Monash University

• Spatial Diversity and Injustice: Intimate Partner Violence Beyond the Cityscape - Bridget Harris, University of New England