Research Report: Violence Against Women and its Impact in Australia

This research report delves into the pervasive issue of violence against women in Australia, exploring its impact on their lives and the various factors that contribute to its continuation. It highlights that domestic violence affects women across all socioeconomic and demographic groups, with young, indigenous, and pregnant women being particularly vulnerable. The report reviews existing literature, revealing that domestic violence leads to homelessness, significant financial costs, and psychological harm to children who witness it. It also addresses the under-reporting of such incidents due to social stigma and the community's role in either perpetuating or preventing violence. The research employs an explorative and descriptive approach, using qualitative methodology to gather data through semi-structured interviews. Ethical considerations are prioritized, and the research aims to identify the reasons for domestic abuse, barriers to reporting, and potential prevention strategies. This study emphasizes the need to understand the nature of victims and their reasons for staying with or leaving abusers, ultimately contributing to a more informed and effective approach to addressing domestic violence in Australia. Desklib provides access to this and many other assignments for students.

Running head: VIOLENCE AGAINST AUSTRALIAN WOMEN
Violence against Australian Women
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction......................................................................................................................2
2. Literature Review............................................................................................................2
2.1. Violence and Abuse in Australia..............................................................................4
3. Research Question...........................................................................................................4
4. Methodology....................................................................................................................5
5. Methods- Data Collection and Analysis..........................................................................6
5.1. Limitations................................................................................................................6
6. Feasibility........................................................................................................................7
6.1. Resources..................................................................................................................7
6.2. Ethics........................................................................................................................8
7. Research Outcomes.........................................................................................................8
7.1. Significance..............................................................................................................8
References..........................................................................................................................10

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1. Introduction
Domestic violence could be considered as the major issue which influences the wealth of
the Australian census. Domestic violence has been observed in all the age group of people
irrespective of their socioeconomic as well as demographic situations but the risk of being
affected due to the same is highly associated with the kids and women (Bohra et al., 2015). The
women who are at the highest risk of such violence are generally young, indigenous or pregnant
but also any women with disabilities or women with financial shenanigans might face such risks.
Moreover, any act of violence with kids or in front of them effects the same. For example, a
violence against mother may affect the kids witnessing it. The primary motive of this research is
to identify the lookout of the women who has experienced domestic violence in their foul
relationships (Camarillo-Daley, 2014).
2. Literature Review
An act of violence which takes place between two or more people who are into close
relationship within a domestic setting can be considered as domestic violence. The Australian
people as well as society has been hugely affected by the act of domestic violence against the
women of the nation (Coker et al., 2015). However, an idea to prevent the social problem is
encouraging as it is possible. In order to implement the effective measure to curb this social
problem, an understanding of the concept of violence against women is needed. The gender-
based violence varies as there could be many types of violence such as sexual, physical or even
psychological. These kind of harms during the violence against the women can have various
effects on their health which creates issue that might result in illness, disabilities within the
victim and even might cause death.

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The homelessness of women has also been observed as the outcome of the domestic
violence against them and the same has been identifies on a global basis (Straus, 2014). This
matter associates a cost with it as Australia incurs a cost of about $21 billion for the violence
against women. Moreover, the children who witness violence intended towards their mother are
also affected and are harmed on psychological basis. It also strongly impacts the emotional,
social and behavioral level of the children. As per the reports prepared by Australian Bureau of
Statistics, (ABS), it has been seen that the women who are victim of domestic violence
experience the same with their previous partners rather than with current partner (Bohra et al.,
2015). Therefore, it has been suggested that such rude behavior of people against their partner is
needed to be stopped as a step towards social well-being. However, women prefer not to report
the same with relevant authorities as their stigma prevents them from doing so. It has also been
observed that women generally report such incidents only after their separation and majority of
women experience such violence.
The violence against women has attracted the attention of the community towards itself.
This has heled in identifying that the community by itself has contributed towards the
continuation of violence against women by responding to the same and even helped to prevent it
as well (Bohra et al., 2015). Hence, in this case, the attitude towards this violence reflects the
social norms and any shift in the same could termed as a progressive addressing towards
domestic violence. The knowledge of the community regarding the same is of significance as it
structures their attitude towards the social problem. A huge number of Australian think that
women could walk out of a relation where violence has rooted deep. However, most of people
are also of thought that the act of such violence can be excused as people lose their control in
anger. The attitude of Australian population towards gender equality is higher wherein they

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support the concept in public as well as private spheres. Though they support equality in
workplaces but still the women population in the country witness biasness. However, the
country witnessed a wave of amendments in its policy to prevent such cases.
2.1. Violence and Abuse in Australia
According to Ellsberg et al., (2015) violence can be categorized as spouse abuse,
domestic assault and abuse, battering, woman abuse. It is also gathered that it is inadequate to
observe domestic violence as a part of normal interpersonal conflict that takes place in most of
the families. Moreover, the cultural and the social bases for the violence against the women in
Australia has been the major focus of the public attention for over years. As per the data gathered
by Jewkes, Flood and Lang, (2015) from it has been gathered that the “Australian Law Reform
Commission” reported an increased woman abuse and violence in Australia. It has also been
reveled from the previous research that one among the three women experience at least one
instance of physical violence and one among the five women face the sexual violence in all over
her lifetime. Jewkes, Flood and Lang, (2015) also added that it has also been established that a
considerable factor inhibiting the effective implementation of criminal justice process within
Australia also includes the degree of under-reporting regarding violence against women in
Australia. Despite early recognition of such issue on women violence, the idea of personal
security to be an individual right has been lost. Moreover, the least developed of any of such
human rights is protected by the international covenants.
3. Research Question
How does the violence against women impact their lives?

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This question will help in understanding the various ways in which the women are
affected due to violence committed against them. This could be emotional, physical or even
mental (DeKeseredy& Hall-Sanchez, 2017).
Why most of the women does not report such violence?
This will focus mainly on the barriers which keeps them from reporting the violence
committed against them.
What is the attitude of community towards such social problems?
This will signify the role of community in prevention of domestic violence against
women.
What could be the steps to prevent such crimes against women?
This question will highlight the steps taken by the authorities to prevent such acts of
violence.
4. Methodology
The research is deemed to implement the explorative and the descriptive approach. These
research methods are employed in this investigation for the reason that explorativeresearch is
deemed to be the most suitable technique at the time of dealing with such issued information that
is less known (Ellsberg et al., 2015). This is consideration to the fact that domestic violence
against women within the Australian environment was previously under-researched. The
explorative research approach through employing qualitative methodology of research will for
this reason be the most suitable method in the recent research. The qualitative research approach

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that is used in the exploration of “Violence against Australian women” is through carrying out a
semi-structured interview with the research participants those are the victims of violence (Flick,
2015).
5. Methods- Data Collection and Analysis
Due to the sensitivity of the research subject, the research participants those will be
selected for the survey will be by means of carrying out non-probability sampling in which the
purposive sample type will be used. This will be attained by means of approaching the
companies that work in collaboration with the women facing violence in Australia. At the time of
carrying out such research, necessary ethical approval will be attained from the government
agency as well as the university (García-Moreno et al., 2015). After such ethical approval 20
respondents will be selected for the research and the qualitative interview will be carried out with
them for over 30 minutes with each participant. The face-to-face interview that is limited to the
selected themes of the study will facilitate in understanding the experiences faced by the women
those were abused in Australia. Considering the same, qualitativeresearch analysis will be carried
out in which thematic approach will be employed in order to elaborate the impact of violence on
Australian women and barriers those are faced at the time of reporting such issues related to
violence. Such analysis will also facilitate in recognizing the needs and support that will be
needed in order to help these abused women in Australia (García-Moreno et al., 2015).
5.1. Limitations
The results those are gathered through carrying out qualitative analysis through the
thematic study approach are deemed to have certain useful implications in solving such issue for
women. However, there are also certain limitations those are faced in this research in data

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collection as well as at the time of research analysis (Jewkes, Flood & Lang, 2015). For the
reason that primary data has been gathered through the interview process there is a chance that
the reliability of the research serves as a major restraint which develops a barrier between
research results along with attainment of the research. Validity of the interview answers can be
questioned as the respondents might hesitate to provide genuine answers within the survey and
might not disclose major concerns because of the sensitivity of the research subject. Another
imitation can be that the collected secondary data might be manipulated to an extent which can
impact the research quality and the research results (Ramamoorthi, Jayaraj, Notaras& Thomas,
2014).
6. Feasibility
6.1. Resources
In carrying out the research on “Violence against women in Australia” certain important
resources are needed that can facilitate in successful completion of this study. These resources
require personnel coordination, equipment requirements along with other relevant resources. The
personnel requirement includes the senior researcher, coordinator as well as the secretary
(Mackey &Gass, 2015). In addition, the equipment that are required by the research include
telephones, computers, and softwarelicenses along with the office materials. Certain other
important resources that are needed in accomplishing the research and analyzing the data
gathered includes premises for coordinating place for the research work, travels and
accommodations in order to travel for attaining relevant data through interview. Resources will
also be required for gathering relevant data on the research of Violence against women from the
newspapers, access to library and the government website access.

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6.2. Ethics
In carrying out the recent research, the researcher has considered to follow the proper
code of conduct in accomplishing all the necessary steps in the data collection and the research.
It has been ensured that secondary data has been ethically gathered from the reliable sources that
attains along with the main human responses (Lewis, 2015). The researcher has also made
attempt to sustain the reliability of the researchcollected from employing qualitative responses
for data interpretation. Moreover, the researcher has also employed the most authentic secondary
data sources and has given recognition to data gathered from previous researches.
7. Research Outcomes
7.1. Significance
This research has highlighted several matters which not only includes the reasons for
domestic abuse but also the reasons for the victim to not report the same to the relevant
authorities. It has been seen that the main cause of domestic violence is the desire to gain as well
as maintain the power over the partner. Moreover, the victim of such social problem could be
anyone irrelevant of age or sex (García-Moreno et al., 2015). In consonance to the research it can
be seen that the victim generally due to some financial problem or certain other emotions cannot
leave the abuser. Hence, this research will help in identifying the nature of the victim and their
reasons to leave or remain with the abuser. It will help the women to defend themselves from
such violence and educate them to take relevant steps against the same. Moreover, it will also
provide a way for the victims to recover from their emotional or mental wound from such
abuses. It may even provide an option to the victim to move legally for the abuses they suffered
from (Henriksen, Schei, Vangen&Lukasse, 2014). Moreover, this research might even enlighten

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the community to help the victim in such situation and make sure the issue may not occur. The
main idea behind the same is to gain consciousness and talk against such incidents and report to
the proper authorities. Rather than becoming a bystander they should take a stance to stop such
things from happening.

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