Note: For materials focused on violence prevention, see here.
Key and recent overviews
Australian National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety. (2018). Resources to address violence against women in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities: Special collection, Sydney, NSW: ANROWS.
Blagg, Harry, Nicole Bluett-Boyd, and Emma Williams. (2015). Innovative models in addressing violence against Indigenous women: State of knowledge paper. Sydney: Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety Limited (ANROWS).
Closing the Gap Clearinghouse (AIHW & AIFS). (2016). Family violence prevention programs in Indigenous communities. Resource sheet no. 37. Produced by the Closing the Gap Clearinghouse. Canberra: AIHW & Melbourne: AIFS.
Holder, J., Putt, J., & O’Leary, C. (2017). Advocacy with and for Aboriginal women experiencing domestic and family violence: A practice guide. Sydney, NSW: ANROWS.
Holder, J., Putt, J., & O’Leary, C. (2017). Outreach with and for Aboriginal women experiencing domestic and family violence: a practice guide. Sydney, NSW: ANROWS.
Holder, J., Putt, J., & O’Leary, C. (2017). Safety planning in crisis situations with and for Aboriginal women experiencing domestic and family violence: a practice guide. Sydney, NSW: ANROWS.
Olsen, A., & Lovett, R. (2016). Existing knowledge, practice and responses to violence against women in Australian Indigenous communities: State of knowledge paper. ANROWS Landscapes, 02/2016.
Our Watch. (2018). Changing the picture, Background paper: Understanding violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women. Melbourne, VIC: Our Watch.
Our Watch. (2018). Changing the picture: A national resource to support the prevention of violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and their children. Melbourne, VIC: Our Watch.
Putt, J., Holder, J., & O’Leary, C. (2017). Women’s specialist domestic and family violence services: Their responses and practices with and for Aboriginal women: Final report (ANROWS Horizons, 01/2017). Sydney, NSW: ANROWS.
Putt, J., Holder, J., & O’Leary, C. (2017). Women’s specialist domestic and family violence services: Their responses and practices with and for Aboriginal women: Key findings and future directions (ANROWS Compass, 01/2017). Sydney, NSW: ANROWS.
Tayton, S., Kaspiew, R., Moore, S., and Campo, M. (2014). Groups and communities at risk of domestic violence and family violence: a review and evaluation of domestic and family prevention and early intervention services focusing on at-risk groups and communities. Melbourne: Australian Institute of Family Studies.
Further works
Al-Yaman, F, Van Doeland, M. & Wallis, M. (2006) Family violence among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
Atkinson, J. (2002). Trauma trails, recreating song lines: The transgenerational effects of trauma in Indigenous Australia North Melbourne: Spinifex Press.
Behrendt, L. (1993). Aboriginal women and the white lies of the feminist movement: Implications for Aboriginal women in rights discourse. Australian Feminist Law Journal, 1, 27-44.
Behrendt, L., Porter, A., & Vivian, A. (2016). Factors affecting crime rates in six rural Indigenous communities. In J.F. Donnermeyer (Ed.). The Routledge international handbook of rural criminology. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Blagg, H. (2008). Crime, Aboriginality and the decolonisation of justice. Sydney: Federation Press.
Bluett-Boyd, N. (2005). In search of justice in family violence: Exploring alternative responses in the Victorian Indigenous Australian community. Melbourne: Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service Pty Ltd.
Bolger, A. (1991). Aboriginal women and violence: a report for the Criminology Research Council and the Northern Territory Commissioner of Police. Casuarina: Australian National University North Australia Research Unit.
Bruey, Veronica Fynn. (2017). Systematic Gender Violence and the Rule of Law: Aboriginal Communities in Australia and Post-War Liberia. PhD Thesis, Australian National University. <http://hdl.handle.net/1885/159520>.
Burbank, V. K. (1994). Fighting women: Anger and aggression in Aboriginal Australia. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Carter, Edie. (1987). Aboriginal Women Speak Out… About Rape Child Sexual Abuse. (Report of an Adelaide Survey, 1985-86), Adelaide: Adelaide Rape Crisis Centre.
Cheers, B., M. Binell, H. Coleman, I. Gentle, G. Miller, J. Taylor, and C. Weetra. (2006). Family Violence: An Australian indigenous community tells its story. International Social Work, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 51-63.
Cowlishaw, Gillian. (2014). Governing sex: removing the right to take responsibility. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2 April.
Cox, D., M. Young, and A. Bairnsfather-Scott. (2009). No justice without healing: Australian Aboriginal people and family violence. Australian Feminist Law Journal, Vol 30, 151-161.
Cripps, K. (2007). Indigenous Family Violence: From Emergency Measures to Committed Long Term Action, Australian Indigenous Law Review, 11(2), 7-18.
Cripps, K. (2008). Indigenous family violence: A statistical challenge. INJURY: International Journal of the Care of the Injured, 39(5), S25-S35.
Day, A., Nakata, M., & Howells, K. (Eds.). (2008). Anger and Indigenous men. Sydney: The Federation Press.
Hunter, E. (1990). Images of Violence in Aboriginal Australia. Aboriginal Law Bulletin, 2(46), October.
Indigenous Law Centre. (2010). Sexual violence and Indigenous victims: women, children and the criminal justice system. Research Brief No 1.
Langton, M. (1988). Medicine square. In I. Keen (Ed.), Being Black: Aboriginal Cultures in ‘Settled’ Australia (pp. 201-226). Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press
Lawrence, Carmen. (2006). A national disgrace: violence against women and children in Indigenous communities. Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, v.30 no. 5, Sept - Oct: 29, 32-33.
McDonald, G. (1988). A Wiradjuri fight story. In I. Keen (Ed.), Being Black: Aboriginal Cultures in ‘Settled’ Australia (pp. 179-200). Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press
Memmott, P., Stacy, R., Chambers, C., & Keys, C. (2001). Violence in Indigenous communities. Canberra: Crime Prevention Branch, Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department.
Memmott, Paul, Rachael Stacy, Catherine Chambers, and Catherine Keys. (2001). Violence in Indigenous Communities. Canberra: Crime Prevention Branch, Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department.
Nicoll, F. (2007). “Are you calling me racist?” Teaching critical whiteness studies in Indigenous sovereignty. In D. W.Riggs (Ed.), Taking up the challenge: Critical race and whiteness studies in a postcolonising nation (pp. 17-33). Belair: Crawford House Publishing.
O’Dowd, M. (2009). Place, identity and nationhood: The Northern Territory intervention as the final act of a dying nation. Continuum: Journal of Medical and Cultural Studies, 23(6), 803-825.
Robertson, B. (1999) The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women’s Taskforce on Violence Report. Brisbane: Queensland Government.
Smallacombe, Sonia. (2004). Speaking positions on Indigenous violence. Hecate, v.30, no.1: 47-55.
Watson, I. (2007). Aboriginal sovereignties: Past, present and future (im)possibilities. In S. Perera (Ed.), Our Patch. Perth: Network.
Watson, I. (2009). In the Northern Territory intervention what is saved or rescued and what is at cost? Cultural Studies Review, 15(2), 45-60.
Watson, N. (2009). The New Protection: Indigenous Women and the Contemporary Australian State. In T Dreher and C Ho (eds.), Beyond the hijab debates: new conversations on gender, race and religion, (pp. 105-117). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Watson, N. (2011). The Northern Territory Emergency Response: Has it Really Improved the Lives of Aboriginal Women and Children? Australian Feminist Law Journal, 35(1), 147-163.
Watson, N. (2011). The Northern Territory Emergency Response: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same. Alberta Law Review, 48(4), 905-918.
Watson, N. (2015). From the Northern Territory Emergency Response to Stronger Futures: Where is the Evidence that Aboriginal Women are Leading Self-Determining Lives? In Rosie Scott, Anita Heiss (eds.), The Intervention : An anthology, (pp. 88-102). Australia: Concerned Australians. (Also: Watson, N. (2014). From the Northern Territory Emergency Response to Stronger Futures - Where is the Evidence that Australian Aboriginal Women are Leading Self-Determining Lives? In Suvendrini Perera, Sherene H. Razack (eds.), At the Limits of Justice: Women of Colour on Terror, (pp. 335-355). Canada: University of Toronto Press.
Weatherburn, D., and L. Snowball. (2012). Is there a cultural explanation for Indigenous violence? A second look at the NATSISS. In Hunter B & Biddle N [eds] 2012, Survey Analysis for Indigenous Policy in Australia: Social Science Perspectives, Australian National University, Canberra.
Williams, N. (1987). Two laws: Managing disputes in a contemporary Aboriginal community. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.