men (continued)

support from social institutions, 23, 33–35, 37, 46n10, 125

targets of violence, 16, 33, 60, 145

Merry, Sally E., 118, 148

Mills, Linda G., 73–74

Mirchandani, Rekha, 149

mothers, 164–165, 199, 205, 219, 230, 232, 236

alienating, 220, 269, 275n1

bad, 32, 136–137, 268–269

interests v. children’s interests, 220, 228–230

safety, 170–172, 177, 185, 202, 206, 236, 251

narrative(s), 9, 49n21, 259

“fright,” 32, 136–137, 220, 254, 268–269

legal, 35–37, 44, 64, 111, 138, 259, 264, 269–270

litigant, 187–188

nonfeminist, 19, 100, 138, 148, 264, 267–268, 270

scholarship, 10

social, 9, 32–35, 44, 111, 130, 136, 138, 257, 259, 264, 268–269, 273

National Network of Women’s Legal Services, 200

New South Wales, 101n2, 103n9, 143–144

court support schemes, 67

Ninth Circuit Gender Bias Task Force, 15

non-English speaking background women, 12–13, 27–28, 61, 64–65, 68, 91, 95, 104n21, 105n30

non-English speaking background women (continued)

O’Barr, William M., 100

Orloff, Leslye E., 139

Osland, Heather, 36, 48n17

Parker, Stephen, 205, 257

Partnerships Against Domestic Violence, 3

police, 5, 31, 46n9, 69, 74, 77, 101n4, 102n8, 111, 118, 148–149, 154n15, 260n1

access to, 27–29

applications for intervention orders, 55–56, 97, 101n4, 103n8, 103–104n, 103n12, 143–144, 248, 272

Australian Federal Police, 168–171

domestic violence policies/protocols, 102n9

responses to breaches of orders, 101n1, 145

responses to domestic violence, 5, 23, 27–29, 101n4

service of interim intervention orders, 58, 115

power and control, 24, 39, 95, 113, 132–133, 145, 152n7, 152–153n11, 217

conception of violence, 14–15, 20, 24, 111–112, 128, 134–136, 138, 226, 270

wheel, 14, 20