{"id":1417,"date":"2016-03-01T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T22:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2016-02-29T16:22:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T06:22:05","slug":"in-the-news-professor-kerry-carrington-mobile-women-only-police-stations-needed-in-regional-and-rural-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/2016\/03\/01\/in-the-news-professor-kerry-carrington-mobile-women-only-police-stations-needed-in-regional-and-rural-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"In the News: Professor Kerry Carrington – “Mobile women-only police stations needed in regional and rural areas”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This post authored by Niki Widdowson originally appeared on QUT News 24 February 2016. .\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Mobile women\u2019s police stations are needed to reach women in regional and rural areas to provide information, advice and support to help prevent domestic abuse, says Professor Kerry Carrington head of QUT\u2019s School of Justice.<\/p>\n

\u201cAustralia has concentrated on providing post-assault intervention to address the devastating impact of domestic violence,\u201d said Professor Carrington, who is speaking at the Sydney Opera House this weekend at the All About Women<\/a> festival.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn example of this is Queensland\u2019s specialist Domestic Violence Court but we need to prioritise the prevention of violence in the home, especially in hard-to-reach vulnerable populations in remote and rural areas, to reduce the proportion of deaths and the pervasiveness of assaults against women in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n

Professor Carrington has studied women-only police stations which began in Brazil and are now found throughout South America.<\/p>\n

\u201cArgentina has mobile women\u2019s police stations that rove the countryside, handing out information, and providing women with advice and support,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Australia, we need more creative thinking about how domestic violence services operate in rural and regional Australia, in Indigenous, ethnically diverse and new migrant communities.<\/p>\n

\u201cDomestic violence police stations or units with a broad mandate for prevention are a cost-effective way of preventing lethal domestic violence from occurring or reoccurring.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to prioritise the prevention of domestic violence.”<\/p>\n

Professor Carrington said mobile police units staffed mainly by women would be part of her proposal to establish domestic violence police stations in Australia.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnlike the hard, steely seat of the grey waiting areas of dimly lit police stations, domestic violence police stations or units would reduce the stigma and discomfort of reporting abuse, enhance victims\u2019 access to justice and reduce the lethality of domestic violence,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

In Australia 41 per cent of homicides were victims of domestic and family violence; 23 per cent of homicide victims were killed by an intimate partner, while 18 per cent were killed by another family member.<\/p>\n

\u201cToo many domestic violence deaths have occurred due to the lack of information-sharing across the busy field of non-government and government agencies involved in responding to this largely hidden crime.\u201d<\/p>\n

Professor Carrington will speak at the one-day All About Women<\/a> event in the Ideas at the House<\/em> series at the Sydney Opera House on March 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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