 | Technology and Domestic and Family Violence: Victimisation, Perpetration and Responses Subjects: Social Sciences; Criminology and Criminal Justice; Sociology & Social Policy; Sociology of Science & Technology; Violent Crime; Victims and Victimology; Gender Studies; This book brings together academics and advocates to explore an emerging issue: the use of technology by perpetrators of domestic and family violence. Of interest too, is critique of government and non-government activities in this arena and, how technology can be harnessed to respond to harm. Domestic and family violence (DFV) is widely recognised as an important social issue, impacting the safety and wellbeing of victim/survivors and their children, and on a broader scale, threatening risk, and security on global levels. This book provides insights drawn from research and practice in the Global South and Global North to provide an evidence base and real-world solutions and initiatives to understand, address and ultimately prevent, technology-facilitated domestic and family violence and how technology can be used to effect positive change and empower victim/survivors and communities. Technology and Domestic and Family Violence will be of great interest to students and scholars on victimology, criminology, social work, law, women's studies, sociology and media studies. It will also be a valuable reference for practitioners, government and non-government advocates working on issues around domestic violence. Bridget Harris is an Associate Professor/Reader of Criminology and Deputy Director of the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre in the Faculty of Arts at Monash University (Victoria, Australia) and an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow. Bridget conducts research on domestic and family violence, violence against women, the use of technology to enact and respond to harm, digital coercive control, and violence against rural domestic and family violence. Delanie Woodlock has been working in the area of domestic violence and sexual assault for over 15 years, providing support to victim-survivors, as well as conducting internationally recognised research in both the community and academia. She is an Adjunct in Criminology at the University of New England (Australia) and a Research Associate with the Research Centre on Violence at West Virginia University. Her research has focused on violence against women with disabilities, the impact of abuse on women's trauma, the use of technology in domestic violence, and violence against women in rural and regional Australia. |
