Jessie Dunstan's research while affiliated with Australian Institute of Family Studies and other places

... This can happen at multiple points of contact with police and courts, including applications for protection orders in retaliation, and to make false allegations of DFV in family law matters. It can also be a perpetrator tactic to pressure withdrawal of the victim's/survivor's legitimate protection order and escape accountability, or a strategy to deplete the victim's/survivor's financial and emotional resources (Douglas, in press;Douglas & Chapple, 2019;Douglas & Fitzgerald, 2013;Kaspiew et al., 2017;Miller & Smolter, 2011;Reeves, 2019;Wangmann, 2010). The QDFVDR&AB found several of the DFV-related deaths reviewed included evidence of men calling the police "as a pre-emptive strike against their aggrieved partner particularly where cross protection orders are in place … including the perpetrator threatening to report false allegations against the victim to police in an attempt to get her in trouble" (2017, p. 83). ...

... Many of the available studies with perpetrators of IPV and/or SV have been undertaken with men participating in behaviour change programs, yet these programs only engage a subset of perpetrators, most of whom have been court-mandated to attend (Day et al., 2019;Tarzia, Forsdike, et al., 2020). In addition, a number of researchers have highlighted the importance of addressing the service needs of fathers who use violence, especially those who remain living together with their partner, and the need to build an evidence base around the development and outcomes of practice with this population (Diemer et al., 2020;Healey et al., 2018;Humphreys & Campo, 2017;Kaspiew et al., 2017). ...

... Crucially, this may mean women use non-DFV services for issues of DFV. Two thirds of women who reported physical harm before or during separation say they used a counselling, relationship or family dispute resolution (FDR) service (Kaspiew et al., 2015). Where gambling is an issue, they also use gambling help services. ...

... Although not all parents who engage with the DVO court process will also have a FLO, the consideration of the role of children is important because mutual children keep many aggrieved and respondent parents connected post separation (Dowling et al., 2018;Logan & Walker, 2009;Reeves, 2020;Thiara & Humphreys, 2017). Between 93 and 97% of fathers in nationally representative parent samples (Kaspiew et al., 2015) and 80% of fathers in a DV specific study sample (Humphreys et al., 2019) reported ongoing contact with children post separation from the aggrieved parent, potentially exposing the aggrieved and children to more violence (Hays et al., 2021). Despite this continued contact, and research acknowledging how contradictions between DVOs and FLOs create issues for aggrieved parents, particularly mothers (Douglas, 2018), there is a paucity of research on how DVO court proceedings deal with the complexities around child contact, custody and parental responsibilities. ...

... 5 IPV is experienced acutely by children and parental separation often increases the frequency and intensity of such violence (Buckley & Whelan, 2008;Callaghan, Alexander, Sixsmith, & Fellin, 2018;Gillindger & Goddard, 2007;Holt, Pence, Davis, & Beardslee, 2012;Radford & Hester, 2006). A recent report showed that family reports are increasingly being obtained in cases involving allegations of IPV (Kaspiew, Carson, Qu, et al., 2015b). This suggests that FRWs have a critical role to play in how the family law system deals with IPV allegations in parenting cases. ...

... Many victim/survivors (usually mothers) and their children experience abuse throughout and beyond family law proceedings (Cleak & Bickerdike, 2016;Kaspiew et al., 2015). Family law proceedings are stressful for most parents going through separation even without the presence of IPV (Feresin, Folla, Lapierre, & Romito, 2018). ...