Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
Home
  • Home
Chapter
  • Print publication year: 2010
  • Online publication date: May 2011

8 - Prevention

Export citation

Summary

In the previous chapters I have argued that we need to engage both young women and young men in challenging the social and cultural rules, norms or discourse, that continue to create a culture in which sexual violence to occurs. An overarching concern of this book is ultimately with the prevention of sexual violence, and it is to this issue that I now turn. In the last five years there has been a significant focus within the Australian government and in policy debates on the role of prevention to reduce violence against women, including sexual violence. This focus is reflected at federal level in the work of the National Council to Reduce Violence Against Women and their Children, and at the state level in the various departmental policies guiding responses to and prevention of violence against women. Indeed, the prevention of sexual violence is firmly on the policy agenda in Australia, and the work happening here is of international significance.

In this context, there is a need for conceptual and empirical work that brings together the issues of sex, power and consent with frameworks for violence prevention. The theoretical perspectives with which we seek to understand these issues have important implications for what we do in practice. In this chapter, I reflect both on past prevention practice and on the newly emerging models of gender-based violence prevention.

Related content

Powered by UNSILO
Suggested Reading
Carmody, M, Sex & Ethics: Young people and ethical sex (Melbourne: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
R Imbesi, , CASA Housesexual assault prevention program for secondary schools (SAPPSS) report (Melbourne: CASA House, 2008).
Sutton, A, Cherney, A & White, R, Crime prevention: Principles, perspectives and practices (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2008).
Sutton, A, Cherney, A & White, R, Crime prevention: Principles, perspectives and practices. (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2008)
Felson, M, ‘Those who discourage crime’, Crime Prevention Studies, vol. 4, pp. 53–66
Felson, M, Crime and everyday life, 3rd edn (Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2002)
Neame, A, ‘Differing perspectives on “preventing” adult sexual assault’, Aware, no. 2 (2003) pp. 8–14
Carmody, M & Carrington, K, ‘Preventing sexual violence?’ Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, vol. 33, no. 3 (2000) pp. 341–61
Söchting, I, Fairbrother, N & Koch, WJ, ‘Sexual assault of women: Prevention efforts and risk factors’, Violence Against Women, vol. 10, no. 1 (2004) pp. 73–93
Yeater, EA & O'Donohue, W, ‘Sexual assault prevention programs: Current issues, future directions, and the potential efficacy of interventions with women’, Clinical Psychology Review, vol. 19, no. 7 (1999) pp. 739–71
Lawson, S & Olle, L, ‘Dangerous drink spiking archetypes’, Women Against Violence: A Feminist Journal, vol. 18 (2006) p. 50
Carmody, M, ‘Preventing adult sexual violence through education?’ Current Issues in Criminal Justice, vol. 18, no. 2 (2006) pp. 342–56
Chung, D, O'Leary, PJ & Hand, T, Sexual violence offenders: Prevention and intervention approaches, Issues No. 54 (Melbourne: Institute of Family Studies, Australian Centre for the Study of Sexual Assault, 2006)
Keel, M, ‘Prevention of sexual assault: Working with adolescents within the education system’, Aware, no. 8 (2005) pp. 16–25
Kitzinger, C & Frith, H, ‘Just say no? The use of conversation analysis in developing a feminist perspective on sexual refusal’, Discourse & Society, vol. 10, no. 3 (1999) p. 306
O'Byrne, R, Rapley, M & Hansen, S, ‘“You couldn't say ‘no’, could you?”: Young men's understandings of sexual refusal’, Feminism & Psychology, vol. 16, no. 2 (2006) p. 133
VicHealth, , Preventing violence before it occurs: A framework to guide the primary prevention of intimate partner violence (Melbourne: VicHealth, 2007)
,Office of Women's Policy, State plan to prevent violence against women: Fact sheet no. 1 (Melbourne: State of Victoria, 2009)
Carmody, M et al., Framing best practice: National standards for the primary prevention of sexual assault through education, National Sexual Assault Prevention Education Project for NASASV. (Sydney: University of Western Sydney, 2009)
Dyson, S et al., Factors for success in conducting effective sexual health and relationships education with young people in schools: A literature review. (Melbourne: Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health & Society, 2003)
Imbesi, R, CASA House sexual assault prevention program for secondary schools (SAPPSS) report (Melbourne: CASA House (Centre Against Sexual Assault), Royal Women's Hospital, 2008)
,La Trobe University, Counselling services 2008 annual report (Melbourne: La Trobe University, 2008)
Donovan, RJ & Vlais, R, VicHealth review of communication components of social marketing/public education campaigns focusing on violence against women (Melbourne: VicHealth, 2005)
,Office for Women, Violence against women – Australia says no website, http://www.australiasaysno.gov.au/ (2004)
Murray, S & Powell, A, ‘What's the problem?: Australian public policy constructions of domestic and family violence’, Violence Against Women, vol. 15, no. 5 (2009) pp. 532–52
McKenzie, M, ‘What happened to respect? How a national violence prevention campaign went off the rails’, No to Violence, vol. 4, no. 1 (2005) pp. 12–14
Fine, M, ‘Sexuality, schooling, and adolescent females: The missing discourse of desire’, Harvard Educational Review, vol. 58, no. 1 (1988) pp. 29–53
,Domestic Violence Resource Centre Victoria & VicHealth, Partners in Prevention network: http://www.dvrcv.org.au/pip/ (2009)
Flores, K Sabo, Youth participatory evaluation: Strategies for engaging young people (San Francisco: Wiley, 2008)