Domestic and Family Violence: A Critical Introduction to Knowledge and Practice - Softcover

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Silke Meyer is a Professor of Social Work at Griffith University and an Adjunct Professor in Criminology at the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre, Australia. Silke is a criminologist and social worker by training, bringing practical and theoretical expertise to her research, teaching and writing. She is an internationally recognised expert in the impact of domestic and family violence on child and adult victim-survivors, victim-survivor help-seeking experiences and service system responses, men’s behaviour change programs along with domestic and family violence-related policy and law reform. Silke regularly develops and delivers training to promote domestic and family violence-informed practice across child protection, policing, court and healthcare responses.

Andrew Frost is an Adjunct Senior Academic at CQUniversity Australia and at Ara Institute of Canterbury in Aotearoa New Zealand. Andrew has worked professionally, taught, and researched in offender rehabilitation for more than 30 years. His practice and award-winning research into groupwork with violent offenders, along with the establishment of a forensic therapeutic community, has spawned a range of publications across books and academic journals. Practice models and other outputs of this work have been used by state, NGO, and independent service providers to inform practice.