In addition to culture-specific topics such as injuries suffered by Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, the book also explores issues that cross cultural boundaries, including violence against women with disabilities, against homeless women and heterosexed hostility and violence against lesbians. The discussion of violence against indigenous women examines public and private dimensions. The book describes an Australian perspective on women, war and the violence of history; men’s violence in the news; the problematics of survival for homeless young women; and governing sexual violence (criminalization and citizenship). The book includes a section on law and criminal justice, which discusses problems of justice for aboriginal defendants in partner homicide cases; judicial bias and prejudice in the courtroom; a critical analysis of “communitarian” conferencing; and rethinking theories of victimology. Notes, references, glossary, index