Policy Monitoring Report in Australia

While the word 'crisis' brings to mind events like September 11 or the Anthrax issue, 'crisis' could simply be a label attached to "a particular set of social circumstances, trying to draw attention to the fact that something out of the ordinary is happening, taking us away from a desirable state of affairs" (McConnell, 2003: 393). Domestic violence against women can be thought of such an issue that does indeed take us away from desirable state of affairs. In a 1998 South Australian study that interviewed 3001 people, eighteen percent reported that they had experienced some form of domest…