ABSTRACT

Women’s police stations that are designed to receive victims of gender-based violence first emerged in Latin America in the 1980s. In Argentina, these stations have unique aspects like multidisciplinary staffing that could guide responses elsewhere. Police responses to domestic and family violence (DFV) in Australia have continually failed victims and require much improvement. Responses combining police and other services are not completely alien to Australia, and are not too dissimilar from women’s police stations. We undertook a survey of Australian police (n = 78) to assess which aspects of Argentina’s stations could inform new approaches to DFV policing. Our survey finds that Australian police support some aspects of this approach to policing DFV, such as multidisciplinary stations (74%). There was significantly less support for stations staffed predominantly by women (19%). Combined with review of evaluations of Australian co-locational responses, research implications for practice suggest a broader trial of co-locational responses in Australia.

摘要

旨在接收基于性别的暴力受害者的妇女警察局于 1980 年代首次出现在拉丁美洲。在阿根廷，这些站点具有独特的方面，例如可以指导其他地方的反应的多学科人员配置。澳大利亚警方对家庭暴力 (DFV) 的应对措施不断使受害者失败，需要大量改进。结合警察和其他服务的反应对澳大利亚来说并不完全陌生，与女性警察局也没有太大的不同。我们对澳大利亚警方 (n = 78) 进行了一项调查，以评估阿根廷车站的哪些方面可以为 DFV 警务提供新方法。我们的调查发现，澳大利亚警方支持这种对 DFV 进行监管的方法的某些方面，例如多学科站 (74%)。对主要由女性工作的电台的支持明显减少（19%）。结合对澳大利亚协同定位响应评估的回顾，对实践的研究意义表明在澳大利亚对协同定位响应进行更广泛的试验。