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- Title
Inclusive Domestic Violence Standards: Strategies to Improve Interventions for Women With Disabilities?
- Authors
Healey, Lucy; Humphreys, Cathy; Howe, Keran
- Abstract
Women with disabilities experience violence at greater rates than other women, yet their access to domestic violence services is more limited. This limitation is mirrored in domestic violence sector standards, which often fail to include the specific issues for women with disabilities. This article has a dual focus: to outline a set of internationally transferrable standards for inclusive practice with women with disabilities affected by domestic violence; and report on the results of a documentary analysis of domestic vio-lence service standards, codes of practice, and practice guidelines. It draws on the Building the Evidence (BtE) research and advocacy project in Victoria, Australia in which a matrix tool was developed to identify minimum standards to support the inclusion of women with disabilities in existing domestic violence sector standards. This tool is designed to inter-rogate domestic violence sector standards for their attention to women with disabilities.
- Subjects
VICTORIA; DOMESTIC violence; VIOLENCE against women; WOMEN with disabilities; STANDARDS; GUIDELINES; INCITEMENT to violence
- Publication
Violence & Victims, 2013, Vol 28, Issue 1, p50
- ISSN
0886-6708
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1891/0886-6708.28.1.50