The National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and Their Children policy

Running head: 2018 PAPER 6
2018 Paper 6
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Discussion..................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................6
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Introduction
Domestic as well as family violence along with sexual assault are crimes that need to
be immediately stopped in Australia. Currently, in Australia, Chen and Chan (2016),
informed that one among every three women have already experienced physical violence and
one among five women above the age of 15 have been victim of social violence (2010 to
2022: The National Plan). The paper will explain the historical surrounding of “The National
Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and Their Children policy” along with analysing the
issue drivers along with media representation of this policy.
Discussion
Reasons and Ways of the Policy Formation
After the release of the plan in the year 2011, the “The National Plan to Reduce
Violence against Women and Their Children policy” has turned out to be an exhibition for
the society to understand and realise what the concerned authorities have been doing to
mitigate the issue of violence on the women or children in Australia (Ellsberg et al. 2015).
The vision of this National Plan is to ensure a society where the Australians can live in an
absolutely violence free and safe community (García-Moreno et al. 2015). This National Plan
emphatically focuses up on 2 particular types of high-level violent crimes:
i) Domestic as well as family violence
ii) Sexual assault
Research exhibits that one strong link exists between the violence against women as
well as their children in Australia and the way people perceive the role of men and women in
the Australian society (Jewkes, Flood and Lang 2015). This National plan gives impetus to
stopping the criminological acts committed against women before they occur as a primary