After five women were killed in nine days, family violence experts say a fixated persons tracking model should be trialled in Australia to save lives.
Men flagged as potential killers would be GPS-tracked and monitored online under a radical proposal family violence experts want governments to consider after five women were killed in nine days., experts are calling for more direct intervention with “fixated” men – who stalk, harass, monitor or threaten intimate partners, but may not yet have offended.
National Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commissioner Micaela Cronin said the proposal, included in Boxall’s homicide research for Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety , is worth considering given the “devastating” deaths of women in Australia this year.The spate of women’s alleged murders around the country had distressed her deeply, and “it is very clear this year we’ve seen rates increasing, not rates decreasing”.
Boxall’s proposal to introduce a system of monitoring and intervening with men who had not yet committed violence, but whose actions suggested they were likely to, “could be worth exploring”. “In many cases they were typically middle-class men who were well respected in their communities and had low levels of contact with the criminal justice system.“Boxall said a dedicated family violence Fixated Threat Assessment program, staffed by specialist intelligence-gathering police, would help to “keep eyes” on such men and allow police to gauge if and when they may pose a lethal threat.
“We think we know that guys who will murder their partner look a certain way; but these are guys living among us.” National Community Attitudes Towards Violence Against Women Survey data had revealed this year that, “a substantial proportion, particularly of young men, think it’s legitimate for men to dominate women in relationships,” he said.“There is still a level of social tolerance of dominance and abuse in relationships that we have to address.
A NSW police spokesman said the four-day Operation Amarok IV earlier this month was part of a sophisticated suite of strategies to target dangerous domestic violence offending, and police continue to conduct “proactive deployments”.
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