"The Fact That He Was a Police Officer Was Probably My Number 1 Challenge": Victim-Survivor Experiences of Officer-Involved Domestic Violence in Australia

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Reeves, Ellen
Fitz-Gibbon, Kate
Meyer, Silke
Walklate, Sandra
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2025
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Officer-involved domestic violence (OIDV) is an underexplored phenomena in Australia and internationally. While in recent years some Australian states have adopted OIDV-specific policies, there remains little research which examines the experiences of victim-survivors of OIDV. This article addresses that gap through an examination of the experiences of 17 OIDV victim-survivors. The findings contribute new insights into how OIDV impacts risk; barriers to help-seeking; experiences of reporting OIDV to the police; the risks associated with information sharing; and perpetrator and organizational accountability. These findings underscore the importance of further shaping policy to address OIDV in Australia, while highlighting the necessity for continued research in this area internationally.

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Violence Against Women

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© The Author(s) 2025. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).

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Reeves, E; Fitz-Gibbon, K; Meyer, S; Walklate, S, "The Fact That He Was a Police Officer Was Probably My Number 1 Challenge": Victim-Survivor Experiences of Officer-Involved Domestic Violence in Australia, Violence Against Women, 2025

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