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    Mothers and Step-Mothers Engaging with Law in Their Response to Adolescent Family Violence

    Drawing on interviews with mothers and step-mothers who have experienced adolescent family violence (AFV) by their children or step-children, this chapter considers how the interviewees explain and respond to ...

    Heather Douglas in Young People Using Family Violence (2021)

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    Alternative Constructions of a Family Violence Offence

    The crime of torture was introduced into the Queensland Criminal Code in 1997. While initially this crime was introduced to respond to a gap in the criminal justice response to child abuse, it has since been used...

    Heather Douglas in Criminalising Coercive Control (2020)