Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Documents
National
Australian Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Network (2018), Australian Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Network Data Report: 2018, New South Wales Domestic Violence Death Review Team, Sydney.
Australian Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Network, & Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety. (2022), Australian Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Network Data Report: Intimate partner violence homicides 2010–2018 (2nd ed.; Research report 03/2022). ANROWS.
Australian Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Network, & Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety. (2022) Domestic and family violence lethality: Updated facts about intimate partner homicide (Fact sheet).
Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee, (commenced 2022) Missing and murdered First Nations women and children. Parliament of Australia (Webpage).
ACT
ACT data for the Australian Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Network is provided by the National Coronial Information System with the approval of the ACT Coroner’s Court.
Australian Government (2021). National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children: Family Violence Death Review: Responsible government: Australian Capital Territory (website).
NSW
Coroner’s Court New South Wales, Domestic violence death review (Government of New South Wales).
NSW Domestic Violence Death Review Team (2021). Report: 2019-2021. New South Wales Government, Sydney.
NT
Northern Territory information for the Australian Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Network is provided by the Coroner’s Office of the Northern Territory.
QLD
Queensland Coroners Court, Review of deaths from domestic and family violence (Queensland Government).
Domestic and Family Violence Death Review and Advisory Board (2022) Collaborative responses to risk, safety, and dangerousness: Annual Report 2021-22, Queensland Government.
TAS
Tasmanian data for the Australian Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Network is provided by the National Coronial Information System with the approval of the Tasmanian Coroner’s Court.
VIC
Coroners Court of Victoria (2020) Victorian Systemic Review of Family Violence Deaths: Review of Family Violence Related Homicides: 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2015, State of Victoria.
WA
Western Australian data for the Australian Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Network has been provided by the National Coronial Information System with the approval of the Western Australian Coroner’s Court.
Ombudsman Western Australia, Family and Domestic Violence Fatality Review (Western Australian Government).
Overview
The Australian Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Network (the Network) was established in 2011 to formalise and coordinate collaboration between death review mechanisms across Australia to share outcomes of reviews into deaths and homicides related to domestic violence where there is an identified history of abuse between the parties preceding the death. The Network has developed a National Minimum Dataset (NMDS) to identify key trends and patterns in intimate partner homicide with an identified history of domestic and family violence. Intimate partner homicides with no identifiable history of domestic and family violence are not included in the dataset. While most jurisdictions across Australia have formalised death review teams, the Australian Capital Territory is in the process of developing a formal death review process and Tasmania currently has no formal death review process. Several jurisdictions produce annual reports and case studies about domestic and family violence deaths which can be found on their websites.
Key data findings from the NMDS (reproduced from the Australian Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Network, & Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety’s Australian Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Network Data Report: Intimate partner violence homicides 2010–2018 (2022) include:
Complete IPV homicide dataset (n=311)
Male IPV homicide offenders who killed a female intimate partner (n=240)
Female IPV offenders who killed a male intimate partner (n=65)
IPV homicide and children
Focused IPV homicide dataset (n=292)
Separation as a characteristic of IPV homicide
Domestic violence orders
Domestic violence abusive behaviours
Overview
The Australian Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Network (the Network) was established in 2011 to formalise and coordinate collaboration between death review mechanisms across Australia to share outcomes of reviews into deaths and homicides related to domestic violence where there is an identified history of abuse between the parties preceding the death. The Network has developed a National Minimum Dataset (NMDS) to identify key trends and patterns in intimate partner homicide with an identified history of domestic and family violence. Intimate partner homicides with no identifiable history of domestic and family violence are not included in the dataset. While most jurisdictions across Australia have formalised death review teams, the Australian Capital Territory is in the process of developing a formal death review process and Tasmania currently has no formal death review process. Several jurisdictions produce annual reports and case studies about domestic and family violence deaths which can be found on their websites.
Key data findings from the NMDS (reproduced from the Australian Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Network, & Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety’s Australian Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Network Data Report: Intimate partner violence homicides 2010–2018 (2022) include:
Complete IPV homicide dataset (n=311)
Male IPV homicide offenders who killed a female intimate partner (n=240)
Female IPV offenders who killed a male intimate partner (n=65)
IPV homicide and children
Focused IPV homicide dataset (n=292)
Separation as a characteristic of IPV homicide
Domestic violence orders
Domestic violence abusive behaviours