Product Description
by Bridget Harris (Editor), Delanie Woodlock (Editor)
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.
Author Biography
Bridget Harris is an Associate Professor/Reader of Criminology and Deputy Director of the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre 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 women in rural areas.
Delanie Woodlock has been working in 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 a research fellow at Monash University in the Australian Centre for Justice Innovation. 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, child sexual abuse material and violence against women in rural and regional Australia.
