Prevalent but Overlooked: Current Literature, Policy, and Service Responses to Sibling Abuse

Desir, Michelle P.; Karatekin, Canan

doi:10.1007/978-981-16-1331-9_2

Young People Using Family Violence 2021

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-1331-9_2

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Prevalent but Overlooked: Current Literature, Policy, and Service Responses to Sibling Abuse

Michelle P. Desir

Canan Karatekin

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Adolescent Family and Dating Violence and the Criminal Law Response

Douglas

Walsh

2022

J Fam Viol

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The criminal law response to adolescent family and dating violence is understudied in Australia. The aim of the present study was to examine the charges and sentences adolescents face when they perpetrate acts of violence against family members or intimate partners, and to better understand the personal circumstances of these adolescents, including whether they have been diagnosed with a mental illness, whether they have a criminal history and whether they have been subject to child protection interventions. We undertook a two stage study analyzing unpublished statistical data and case files held by the Youth Justice department in Queensland, Australia. We found that the most commonly charged offence was contravention of a family violence protection order in the context of adolescent dating violence. We found that many of the adolescents charged with adolescent family and dating violence related offences faced significant challenges and that Indigenous young people were significantly overrepresented in family violence related charges, especially for contraventions of a family violence protection order. Whilst criminal law responses are uncommon in parent–child and sibling violence contexts, family violence protection orders are over-utilized as a response to adolescent dating violence. Such orders when breached result in criminalization of the young person. Resources should to be (re)directed away from the criminal law system and into community-led, place-based initiatives that address the drivers of crime and incarceration.

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Adolescent Family and Dating Violence and the Criminal Law Response

Douglas

Walsh

2022

J Fam Viol

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Prevalent but Overlooked: Current Literature, Policy, and Service Responses to Sibling Abuse

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