May 17, 2020

False claim about gangs luring rape victims spreads in US

FACTCHECK: Facebook post shared almost 9,000 times says a sheriff’s department is warning of criminal gangs are using children to lure women for rape. The post is a known hoax, and NNSC’s David Kennedy said, “this is just not how gangs behave”

April 28, 2020

Woman Allegedly Held At Gunpoint In Home By Estranged Husband, Ex-Lover Over COVID-19 Stimulus Payment

“It’s an exceptionally challenging time right now — it’s unlike anything that most people have experienced, especially on this broad and deep a scale,” Rachel Teicher, a domestic violence expert, told Oxygen.com. “Anything that was underlying to begin with — abuse, violence, tension, coercion — is only going to be amplified because there’s very little stability or normalcy,

March 17, 2020

Policing repeat domestic violence: Would focused deterrence work in Australia?

Based on an extensive body of Australian research on patterns of domestic violence offending and reoffending, and in light of recent developments in responses to domestic violence, this paper recommends trialling focused deterrence and ‘pulling levers’ to reduce domestic violence reoffending in an Australian pilot site.