Young People Using Family Violence

Kate Fitz-Gibbon is Director of the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre and an Associate Professor in Criminology in the Faculty of Arts at Monash University (Victoria, Australia). She is also an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Law and Social Justice at University of Liverpool (UK) and a Research Associate of the Research Centre of Violence at West Virginia University (US). Her research examines family violence, femicide, the law of homicide and the impact of criminal law reform across Australian and international jurisdictions. Kate has advised on homicide law reform reviews and family violence inquiries in several Australian and international jurisdictions. Her recent publications include Towards a Global Femicide Index: Counting the costs (2020, Routledge) and The Emerald Handbook on Femicide, Criminology and Social Change (2020, Emerald), both with Sandra Walklate, Jude McCulloch and JaneMaree.