Respect Victoria commissioned us to review evidence that helps understand what we know – and don’t know – about the prevalence, nature, drivers, and risk factors of different forms of violence against women, family and gendered violence. 

This helps examine:

• how addressing the gendered drivers of violence against women may help prevent other forms of family and gendered violence
• where further work is needed to identify additional drivers and reinforcing factors for these other forms of violence
• opportunities to strengthen prevention evidence, policy and practice.

There are 8 research summaries. Each focuses on a particular form of violence against women or family violence:

1. adolescent violence in the home
2. child maltreatment
3. elder abuse
4. men’s intimate partner violence against women
5. non-partner sexual assault against women
6. online violence and harassment perpetrated against women
7. sexual harassment in the workplace
8. women’s intimate partner violence against men.