04/04/2025
Australia's Family Violence Provisions. ..
What is Family Violence❓️❓️❓️❓️
Violence encompasses a wide range of behaviours and harms, including stalking, surveillance, and other harassing and abusive behaviours. These behaviours can occur in both family and non-family settings.
The widespread availability of technology and the ease of maintaining anonymity online has increased the opportunity for stalking and surveillance.
Perpetrators may misuse devices, accounts, software or platforms to control, abuse and track victim-survivors (DSS 2022). Irrespective of whether these behaviours are experienced in-person or online, they can have significant implications for personal safety, productivity and mental wellbeing.
What is stalking and surveillance❓️❓️❓️
Stalking is a pattern of unwanted behaviours aimed at causing fear or distress and reducing the victim’s autonomy and sense of security, which is often considered a form of emotional abuse.
It can involve a range of different behaviours and is a crime in all states and territories of Australia.
Stalking often includes surveillance behaviours that provide information on the victim’s movements and activities to perpetrators. ..
Increasingly, mobile and digital technologies are utilised to conduct stalking and associated surveillance behaviours. When stalking and surveillance are conducted via technology, they are considered technology-facilitated abuse
💆♂️🧕Health impacts💆♂️🧕
Stalking is associated with harmful effects on the victim-survivor’s physical health, such as escalating to physical and sexual violence, excessive fatigue, chronic sleep disturbance and disturbances to appetite (McEwan et al. 2007; Pathé and Mullen 1997; Dreßing et al. 2020).
Stalking can also contribute to a deterioration in the victim-survivor’s mental health, and these impacts are often complex and long-lasting (Korkodeilou 2016).
They can include increased levels of anxiety, overwhelming sense of powerlessness, depressive disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, and suicidal ideation or attempted su***de (Pathé and Mullen 1997; Dreßing et al. 2020).
🏇🏇Disruptions to social life🏇🏇
Stalking can also lead to disruptions to the victim-survivor’s social life.
Victim-survivors may restrict social outings, avoid certain places or people, change contact details, change or cease employment, or even relocate to a new home, which commonly contribute to isolation from social circles (Pathé and Mullen 1997; McEwan et al. 2007; Korkodeilou 2016).
Strains on interpersonal relationships can also occur when victim-survivors develop trust issues as a result of stalking or feel they are not taken seriously or supported by people around them (Korkodeilou 2016).
💲💲Economic and financial burden...💲💲
Other than the cost of relocating and changing or ceasing employment, stalking can contribute to economic and financial burden through reducing the productivity of the victim-survivor and people known to the victim-survivor, legal costs, health treatment costs, and costs of security devices like CCTV cameras and panic alarms (Dreßing et al. 2020; Pathé and Mullen 1997; Korkodeilou 2016).
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