- CPD Points: 1 [PS] [EW]
- Price: $77.00
- Area: Child Protection; Criminal Law; Family Law
- Delivered: November 2021
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Description
Facilitated by Mary-Anne Ryan, Barrister, Derwent & Tamar Chambers, and Chair, the Family Law Committee of The Law Society of Tasmania, this session is delivered by Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Monash University and Inspector Phil Curtis, Tasmania Police. The discussion covers the following: overview of adolescent family violence: prevalence, nature and impact; reporting barriers; police responses, including the use of protection orders; and recent policy and practice reforms.
Key takeaways include:
- Adolescent family violence has significant impacts on the everyday lives of families impacted.
- Across Australian state and territories there is a lack of specialised service responses to adolescent family violence.
- Research from the UK and Australia reveals that mothers experiencing adolescent family violence often wait until crisis point to contact the police fearing the long term impacts of criminalisation on their child.
- Australian states differ in whether protection/intervention orders can be taken out by a parent (as the affected family member) against a child.
Inspector Phil Curtis discusses the following:
- Violent behaviour and threats from youths towards their parents does not constitute family violence in Tasmania (the term domestic violence does not appear in Tasmanian legislation) in this state.
- Restraint Orders can be sought under the Justices Act 1959 for youths who pose a risk to their parents (or risk to other members of their family).
- In Tasmania Police's experience (anecdotally) few orders are sought by parents against their children and it is not uncommon for those applications to be later withdrawn or breaches are not reported or sought to be resolved through the criminal justice system.
- There are restrictions around the arrests of Youths (<18 years) in Tasmania and these also need to be taken into consideration when breaches occur.
- CPD Points: 1 [PS] [EW]
- Price: $77.00
- Area: Child Protection; Criminal Law; Family Law
- Delivered: November 2021
Digital Content
- Recording
- Materials: (none)
To purchase login below
Description
Facilitated by Mary-Anne Ryan, Barrister, Derwent & Tamar Chambers, and Chair, the Family Law Committee of The Law Society of Tasmania, this session is delivered by Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Monash University and Inspector Phil Curtis, Tasmania Police. The discussion covers the following: overview of adolescent family violence: prevalence, nature and impact; reporting barriers; police responses, including the use of protection orders; and recent policy and practice reforms.
Key takeaways include:
- Adolescent family violence has significant impacts on the everyday lives of families impacted.
- Across Australian state and territories there is a lack of specialised service responses to adolescent family violence.
- Research from the UK and Australia reveals that mothers experiencing adolescent family violence often wait until crisis point to contact the police fearing the long term impacts of criminalisation on their child.
- Australian states differ in whether protection/intervention orders can be taken out by a parent (as the affected family member) against a child.
Inspector Phil Curtis discusses the following:
- Violent behaviour and threats from youths towards their parents does not constitute family violence in Tasmania (the term domestic violence does not appear in Tasmanian legislation) in this state.
- Restraint Orders can be sought under the Justices Act 1959 for youths who pose a risk to their parents (or risk to other members of their family).
- In Tasmania Police's experience (anecdotally) few orders are sought by parents against their children and it is not uncommon for those applications to be later withdrawn or breaches are not reported or sought to be resolved through the criminal justice system.
- There are restrictions around the arrests of Youths (<18 years) in Tasmania and these also need to be taken into consideration when breaches occur.
Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Assoc. Professor, Monash University
About the Presenter:
Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon is Director of the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre and Associate Professor of Criminology in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University. She is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Law and Social Justice at University of Liverpool. Kate completed her PhD at Monash in 2012, following which she was appointed as a Lecturer in Criminology in School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University. In 2016 Kate was appointed as a member of the Victorian Government’s Expert Advisory Committee on Perpetrator Interventions and also sits as a member of the Monash City Council Gender Equity Advisory Committee. Previously Kate was Chair of the Barwon Centre against Sexual Assault Governance Board and a member of the Step Back Think Board of Directors.
The areas where Kate conducts research are family violence, adolescent family violence, legal responses to lethal violence, youth justice and the effects of homicide law and sentencing reform in Australian and international jurisdictions.
Kate has advised on homicide law reform, family violence and youth justice reviews in several Australian jurisdictions. Kate’s 2014 sole-authored book, Homicide Law Reform, Gender and the Provocation Defence: A Comparative Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan), was cited by the High Court of Australia in Lindsay v The Queen [2015] HCA 16.
Inspector Phil Curtis, Manager, Safe Families Coordination Unit, Tasmania Police
About the Presenter:
Inspector Phil Curtis has been with Tasmania Police for over 33 years. Phil is the Manager in charge of the Safe Families Coordination Unit and has worked predominantly within investigative areas of the police service. His key interests are in investigation of sexual assault and investigative interviewing. Through the University of Tasmania, he has a Bachelor of Social Science (Police Studies), a Graduate Certificate (Public Sector Leadership and Management), a Bachelor of Arts with Professional Honours (Investigative Practice); and has completed the Specialist Vulnerable Witness Forensic Interviewing Course with the Centre for Investigative Interviewing. Phil is a Member of the International Investigative Interviewing Research Group.
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