Family violence (FV) harms communities worldwide so FV prevention strategies and effective responses are urgently needed. This article reports on FV apparent in a study which explored the experiences of people with both ABI and justice system encounters in Victoria, Australia. One hundred interviews and one focus group consulted people with ABI, their families and carers, and various stakeholder groups in the Victorian justice system in Australia. Qualitative content analysis determined dominant themes and sub-themes and the less common themes. Inductive interpretive content analysis identified themes commonly found in previous published research and themes that appeared unique to, or unanticipated in, our data, such as the FV theme upon which this article focuses. Our findings reveal that FV has adversely affected many people with ABI who came into contact with Victoria’s justice system. Further, as ABI and FV often co-occur with substance abuse, mental health problems, socio-economic and many other significant disadvantages, for some FV perpetrators with an ABI, their ABI symptoms and characteristic co-morbidities may be a mitigating factor in their offending. The connection between ABI and family violence emerged as a troubling research theme. Indeed, the impact of FV on too many of our participants with an ABI compels us to call for further related research and secondary prevention programs targeted at FV victims, and offenders, living with ABI. An intersectional understanding of family violence and TBI/ABI in social ecological contexts is required to better understand brain injury at both individual and population levels.

家庭暴力 (FV) 危害世界各地的社区，因此迫切需要 FV 预防策略和有效应对措施。本文报道了一项研究中明显的 FV，该研究探讨了在澳大利亚维多利亚州遭遇 ABI 和司法系统的人的经历。一百次采访和一个焦点小组向 ABI 的人们、他们的家人和照顾者以及澳大利亚维多利亚州司法系统中的各种利益相关者团体进行了咨询。定性内容分析确定了主要主题和子主题以及不太常见的主题。归纳解释性内容分析确定了以前发表的研究中常见的主题以及我们的数据中出现的独特或未预料到的主题，例如本文关注的 FV 主题。我们的调查结果表明，FV 对许多与维多利亚州司法系统有过接触的 ABI 患者产生了不利影响。此外，由于 ABI 和 FV 经常与药物滥用、心理健康问题、社会经济问题和许多其他重大不利因素同时发生，因此对于一些患有 ABI 的 FV 施暴者来说，他们的 ABI 症状和特征性合并症可能是他们的减轻因素。冒犯。ABI 与家庭暴力之间的联系成为一个令人不安的研究主题。事实上，FV 对我们太多患有 ABI 的参与者的影响迫使我们呼吁针对与 ABI 一起生活的 FV 受害者和罪犯进行进一步的相关研究和二级预防计划。