Advocacy for Safety and Empowerment: A Critical Review of the Literature (original) (raw)

PRN: Legal Theories, 2015

Abstract

There are numerous challenges in presenting critical, policy, service and research literature – with its many strands – on responses to Aboriginal women experiencing family and domestic violence in Australia. This review primarily considers literature relevant to service responses within the context of these debates and discussions. In doing so it focuses on responses to Aboriginal women as victim/survivors of family and domestic violence from non-legal and non-clinical services and those delivered by women’s specialist services. It also focuses on service delivery in regional and remote settings. The review further profiles researches that amplify the voices of Aboriginal women. In doing so, it goes on to consider the applicability, strengths and limitations of participatory research methods drawing on health, education and human development literature. The review is critical in that it highlights problems that underpin ideas of ‘effectiveness’ and ‘success’ that drive objectives i...

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