by Jess Hill
Michael, Robin 132–3
Mill, John Stuart (English philosopher and feminist) 36, 322
Miller, Peter (professor of violence prevention and addiction studies) 100
Minuchin, Salvador (children’s therapist) 290
misogyny 3, 57–8, 105–6, 140–3
Mitchell, Amber Rose 7
Mitchell, Korey Lee 7
Mitchell, Megan (National Children’s Commissioner) 169
Monis, Man Haron 94
monopolise victim’s perception 27–8 see also coercive control
Moore, Constable Paul 307
Moore, Superintendent Greg 361–5 see also Bourke Police; Darling River Local Area Command; Maranguka
Morning Chronicle, The 322
Morrison, Scott 340
Mudd, Paula (women’s refuge in Hunter Valley) 224
Mudie, Robert (British newspaper editor) 319
Mullaley, Charlie 305–16
Mullaley, Tamica 305–16
Mullaley, Ted 305–16
Mulligan, Judy 334–5 see also Yungngora council
Mulligan, Merrillee 333
Murdoch, Mark (NSW Police assistant commissioner) 179
Myers, Matthew (federal magistrate) 291
narcissism 54, 100–1, 113, 117, 156
narcissistic personality disorder 101, 113
Nathanson, Donald (American psychiatrist) 116–17 see also shame and basic human reactions
National Children’s Commissioner 169
National Domestic Violence Fatality Review Initiative 111
National Family Violence Survey 211
National Justice Project 316
National Men’s Referral Service helpline 119–21
National Partnership Agreement on Homelessness 338–9
National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children 2010–2022 105, 148, 342–6
National Press Club 249, 263, 295, 322 see also Ken Lay (former chief commissioner of Victoria Police); Marcia Langton (campaigner against men’s violence); Rosie Batty
Neill, Rosemary 329
neoliberal feminist analysis of violence 107
Neville, A.O. (Chief Protector in Western Australia) 328–329
New York Magazine 94
Newcastle Family Court 280
Newhouse, George (Mullaley family lawyer) 316 see also National Justice Project
New York Times, The 55
Nixon, Christine (former chief commissioner of Victoria Police) 249
No More campaign 335–6
No to Violence (Victoria) 124, 155
Norrmalmstorg syndrome 58
North Korean POW camps 15–17, 25, 27, 29, 32–4, 36–7, 39, 61, 64 see also Biderman’s Chart of Coercion; Operation Big Switch
NSW Domestic Violence Death Review 223
Oates, Emeritus Professor Kim 288–9
Oberin, Julia 5, 240 see also Annie North refuge; Women’s Services Network (WESNET)
obsession 18, 87–8, 90, 113, 128, 139
O’Dell, Anne 219 see also San Diego Police Department
Okun, Lewis 18
Olofsson, Clark 57 see also Stockholm syndrome
Olsson, Jan 57
O’Malley, Rosemary 219, 220–1, 234–5 see also Gold Coast Domestic Violence Prevention Centre
One in Three 223
Opas, Justice David 269 see also Family Court bombings
Operation Big Switch 14–15
Operation Ceasefire (Boston) 352 see also ‘focussed deterrence’
Operation Solidarity (Bourke Police) 364–5
Orwell, George 36, 67
Our Lady Queen of Peace Cathedral 313
Our Place 360–1 see also Bourke High School; Maranguka
Our Watch 106, 167, 336, 346
Owens, Ali (American writer) 65
Palme, Olof (Swedish prime minister) 58 see also Stockholm syndrome
Palmer, Janay 4
Parental Alienation Syndrome 277–9, 289–90
Parkinson, Professor Patrick (former chair of Family Law Council) 266–7, 272–3
Parramatta Family Court 269 see also Family Court bombings
Parramatta Girls Home 330
Parton, Mark (ACT Liberal politician) 137
Pascoe, Justice John (former Family Court chief justice) 295
Paskin, Norman 244–5, 247–8
passion 18 see also jealousy; obsession; possessiveness
passivity 54, 56
patriarchy 60, 108–9, 133, 337
and ‘feminine’ values 139
the ‘feminist’ model of behaviour 103
and gender norms 135, 345
homicidal misogyny 140
and ‘masculine’ values 139
and pornography 146–8
sense of entitlement 150–1, 157
patriarchy and the four elements
the ‘male-centred’ society 139
the ‘male-dominated’ society 138
the ‘male-identified’ society 138
and obsession with control 139
patriarchy dual system of power
men’s power over men 140–1
men’s power over women 138–9
Patton, Shane (Victoria Police commissioner) 253
Pease, Professor Bob (violence prevention expert) 136
Peet, Steven 7
Pence, Ellen 107–8, 225 see also Duluth model of behaviour change; ‘feminist’ model of behaviour
Penna, Guy (National Men’s Referral Service helpline) 119–20
Penny, Laurie (feminist author) 150
perpetrators see domestic abuse female perpetrators; domestic abuse male perpetrators
Perry, Bruce (child-trauma clinician) 175
personality disorders 89, 100, 101, 113, 188, 288 see also antisocial personality disorder; borderline personality disorder; narcissistic personality disorder; psychopathy; sociopathy
‘Pit Bulls’ 86–93, 92, 105, 113, 128 see also ‘The Love Lab’ research
police 4–5, 45–46, 75, 252–3 see also Australian Federal Police; Blacktown Police; Bourke Police; Broome Police; Police Operations Centre, Perth; Victoria Police
police domestic violence training 242
Police Operations Centre, Perth 312
police stations for women and children (Argentina) 254–5 see also comisaría de la mujer y familia (Argentina)
police stations for women (Brazil) 254–6 see also delegacia da muhler (Brazil)
pornography 146–8
possessiveness 18, 27, 133, 163
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 173, 187–8, 331 see also complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD)
poverty 77–80, 168 see also financial abuse
power 9, 17, 20–2, 24–6, 33, 82
Problem with Porn conference 148
prolonged interrogations 31, 37
protection orders 196–7, 213–14, 217, 231–2, 243, 258
‘psychopathology’ model of behaviour 100–2, 105 see also Machiavellianism; narcissism; psychopathy
psychopathy 100, 101, 113
Quadrio, Carolyn (child psychiatrist) 286–7
Queensland Special Taskforce on Domestic and Family Violence 298
Queensland University of Technology 254 see also Professor Kerry Carrington
Rape & Domestic Violence Services Australia 39
Real, Terrence (family therapist and expert on masculinity) 142
recovery order 191–2
Reddit online forum 140
refuges see emergency refuges
Renzetti, Claire (American scholar) 9
Retz, Doug (FBI special agent) 350 see also High Point Community Against Violence (HPCAV)
Reynolds, Henry (historian) 325
Rice, Ray 4
Riethmuller, Judge 264
Rikard-Bell, Christopher (child psychiatrist) 285–90
Ripp, Senior Sergeant Neville 334
Rodger, Elliott 3, 140
Roxon, Nicola (former attorney-general) 294
Royal
Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody 305
Royal Commission into Family Law 295
Royal Commission into Family Violence (Victoria) 249, 340–1
Royal Melbourne Hospital 228
Ruddock, Phillip (former attorney-general) 276
rule-setting 32 see also enforcing trivial demands
Rushdie, Salman 111
Russell, Diana 17
Saatchi, Charles 120
Safe Steps family violence hotline 1, 8, 73, 234–5
Salter, Michael (criminologist) 106–7, 109, 156, 343 see also Our Watch; VicHealth
San Diego Police Department 219
Sanasi, Deb 11–14, 64–5, 151–4
Sanasi, Rob 11–13, 64, 151–4
Sapolsky, Professor Robert 118
SBS 237
SBS Dateline 345–6
SBS Punjabi 76
Schubach, Kay 30–1, 35, 38, 51, 139
Scotland, coercive control laws 258
Scrupski, Susan 356 see also High Point Community Against Violence (HPCAV)
Seligman, Martin 56
sexual violence 147–8, 211, 317, 327 see also pornography
shame 119–20, 129–31, 156–7
and gender norms 115, 133, 142
and ‘humiliated fury’ 110, 112–14, 117, 126, 128
and powerlessness 140
the ‘sleeper emotion’ 113
Shame 111
shame and basic human reactions
attack others 116–17
attack self 116–17
avoidance 116–17
withdrawal 116
Shannon, Rodney 300–1
Sharratt, Magistrate Stephen 315
Shaw, Nic (Protective Group) 240
Shelter SA 238
‘simple domestic violence’ 22
Simpson, Kathleen (Gold Coast defence lawyer) 215
Sisters Inside 216
‘situational couple violence’ 210–12
Sketchley, Robyn 170
sleep deprivation 31
Smith, David Livingstone (American philosopher) 39–40
sociopathy 101
Solnit, Rebecca 4
South Australian Royal Commission into Child Protection Systems 166
Southport Magistrate’s Court (domestic and family violence court) 195–6, 222
Spectator, The 100
Stanner, W.E.H. (anthropologist) 324, 330
Stark, Evan (sociologist) 8, 11, 18, 20
on coercive control 20–1
on control 8, 11
on degradation 39
on demonstrating omnipotence 33
‘men’s definition of violence’ 258
on rule-setting 32
on ‘simple domestic violence’ 22
Stasis, Vivian 185 see also Lillian Howell Project
Steiner, Leslie Morgan 63–5
Steinmetz, Suzanne 205 see also ‘battered husband syndrome’; family conflict researchers
Stockholm syndrome 57–9
Stolen Generations 329–30 see also Bringing Them Home; Parramatta Girls Home
Stony Brook University 138
strangulation 33–4, 213
Straus, Murray (New Hampshire sociologist) 203, 206 see also Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS); family conflict researchers
Strofield, Magistrate Colin 222–3 see also Southport Magistrate’s Court
suicide 77, 117, 140, 196, 278
attempts by women 4
and children 168–9, 186–7, 331
and Indigenous children 169, 331
and men 157
Summey, Jim 349 see also High Point Community Against Violence (HPCAV)
Sumner, Marty (High Point deputy chief) 350–4, 356 see also High Point Community Against Violence (HPCAV)
surveillance 21, 32–3, 241 see also tech-facilitated abuse
‘survivor theory’ 60
Sydney Morning Herald, The 268, 316, 358
Taylor, Harriet 322
tech-facilitated abuse 240
‘The Love Lab’ research 85–91 see also ‘Cobras’; ‘Pit Bulls’
theory of women’s masochism 51, 54, 56, 105
Thompson, Kelly 244–9
Thompson, Wendy 248
threats 173–4
Threlkeld, Lancelot (missionary) 326
Tomlinson, Brett 120, 121 see also National Men’s Referral Service
Traister, Rebecca 94
Triple Zero 245, 261, 264, 309, 311
Trujillo, Olga (child survivor and advocate) 175–6
trust 6, 25–6, 28, 50, 57–8, 63–4, 191
Ungunmerr-Baumann, Miriam-Rose (Aboriginal elder, artist and educator) 297
University College London 173
University of California 3, 99, 114
University of Maine 120
University of Pennsylvania 34
University of Southern California 207
University of Sydney 270
University of Washington 85–6
Van Altena, Andre 92, 122
van der Kolk, Bessel 187–90 see also complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD)
VicHealth 106
victims see domestic abuse and victims
Victims of Crime Assistance League 164
Victoria Police 247, 249–50, 253 see also Werribee Police Station; Wyndham Family Violence Unit
Victoria Police family violence investigation units 253
Victoria Police L17 form 245
Victoria police specialist family violence police 253
Victorian Labor government 340–1
Violence Against Women (US federal office) 357
‘violence against women’ VAW researchers 202, 205, 208–9, 211–12
Vlais, Rodney 124, 155 see also No to Violence (Victoria)
WA Crime and Corruption Commission enquiry 315 see also Broome Police
Wade, Allan (Canadian family therapist) 57
Waheed, Nayyirah 135
Walker, Lenore 56–7 see also ‘cycle of abuse’; ‘learned helplessness’ theory; passivity
Walters, Mark (manager MensLine Australia) 214–15
Wangmann, Professor Jane 95–6, 216
Warne, Genelle (domestic violence liaison officer DVLO) 241–2 see also Blacktown Police
Warwick, Leonard 269–70
Watson, Justice Ray 269 see also Family Court bombings
Watson, Pearl 269, 269–70 see also Family Court bombings
Weatherburn, Don (Bureau of Crime Statistics) 357
‘web of abuse’ 62, 232
Websdale, Professor Neil 111, 113, 124, 126, 128 see also National Domestic Violence Fatality Review Initiative
Werribee Police Station 244, 246–7
West Australian, The 334
White Ribbon Australia 336
Whitehouse, Tanya 47 see also Women’s Domestic Violence Court Advocacy Service (WDVCAS)
#WhyIStayed 4
Wild, Jennifer (Oxford psychologist) 57 see also Stockholm syndrome
Williams-Mozley, Professor John 305
Willis, Karen 39, 104 see also Rape & Domestic Violence Services Australia
Wilson-Rigney, Adeline 7
Winton, Tim 143
Withers, Sergeant William 311–12
Women’s Domestic Violence Court Advocacy Service (WDVCAS) 46–7
Women’s Legal Service 295
Women’s Legal Service NSW 213
women’s masochism see theory of women’s masochism
Women’s Services Network (WESNET) 5, 240
Wood, Wayne 244–9
Wood Royal Commission 341–2
Wright, Constable Joel 309–11
Wyndham Family Violence Unit 246
#YesAllWomen 4
Yfoundation 185
Yungngora council 334–5
YWCA 186
Jess Hill is an investigative journalist who has been writing about domestic violence since 2014. Prior to this, she was a producer for ABC Radio, a Middle East correspondent for The G
lobal Mail, and an investigative journalist for Background Briefing. She was listed in Foreign Policy’s top 100 women to follow on Twitter, and her reporting on domestic violence has won two Walkley awards, an Amnesty International award and three Our Watch awards.