CNA342 | Health Care | The National Plan To Reduce Violence

• A discussion how or why the policy was formed?
• What principles are at stake?
• The issue drivers and the media portray of the policy.

Introduction

Domestic as well as family violence along with sexual assault are crimes that need to be immediately stopped in Australia. Currently, in Australia, Chen and Chan (2016), informed that one among every three women have already experienced physical violence and one among five women above the age of 15 have been victim of social violence (2010 to 2022: The National Plan). The paper will explain the historical surrounding of “The National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and Their Children policy” along with analysing the issue drivers along with m

Discussion

Reasons and Ways of the Policy Formation

After the release of the plan in the year 2011, the “The National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and Their Children policy” has turned out to be an exhibition for the society to understand and realise what the concerned authorities have been doing to mitigate the issue of violence on the women or children in Australia (Ellsberg et al. 2015). The vision of this National Plan is to ensure a society where the Australians can live in an absolutely violence free and safe community (García-Moreno et al. 2015). This National Plan emphatically focuses up on 2 particular types of high-level violent crimes:

i) Domestic as well as family violence

ii) Sexual assault

Research exhibits that one strong link exists between the violence against women as well as their children in Australia and the way people perceive the role of men and women in the Australian society (Jewkes, Flood and Lang 2015). This National plan gives impetus to stopping the criminological acts committed against women before they occur as a primary cause along with supporting women having miserable experience of physical as well sexual violence to live freely in the mainstream society and lastly stopping men from indulging in these criminal acts through “Our WATCH” (Michau et al. 2015).

Principles at Stake

In the implementation of “The National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and Their Children policy” there are certain principles those are observed to be at stake. The action plan was actually a modified version of the first plan aimed at fulfilling the loopholes of the first plan (Salter 2016). The main aim of the second plan was to broaden the social communication so as to engage more sectors and community welfare groups with the plan. There are certain loopholes in the principles developed by “The National Research Organisation” for women safety in Australia was formed along with other agencies like Our WATCH and the social Marketing Campaign: Line. There are certain other limitations to the principles of this policy, for instance data regarding violations against women and children is observed to be limited that did not consider including data regarding jurisdictions (Ellsberg et al. 2015).

Issue Drivers and Media Portray of Policy

Certain drivers that resulted in issues regarding the policy “National plan to reduce violence against women and their children policy” include an increasing interest in the “bystanders” potential in playing an important function in order to respond to the violence on women (Ellsberg et al. 2015). Moreover, other drivers also include existence of people those are not totally associated with violence along with the drivers like sexism can have a vital function in preventing it.

Media portray of the policy includes certain community-based approaches employing social media in order to focus on the importance along with impact of violence on women that reports on troll of women’s violent deaths all through Australia. Moreover, factors related inequality among gender serves as the most regular violence drivers against women that results in gendered violence patterns. Such identified factors are also termed as gendered violence drivers against women (Ellsberg et al. 2015).

Conclusion

The paper explained the historical surrounding of “The National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and Their Children policy” along with analysing the drivers of issues and media representation of this policy. The paper revealed that in the implementation of “The National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and Their Children policy” there are certain principles those are observed to be at stake. Considering the same, there are certain other limitations to the principles of this policy, for instance data regarding violations against women and children is observed to be limited that did not consider including data regarding jurisdictions that are needed to be addressed in the future amendments of this policy.

Reference List

Chen, M. and Chan, K.L., 2016. Effects of parenting programs on child maltreatment prevention: A meta-analysis. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 17(1), pp.88-104.

Ellsberg, M., Arango, D.J., Morton, M., Gennari, F., Kiplesund, S., Contreras, M. and Watts, C., 2015. Prevention of violence against women and girls: what does the evidence say?. The Lancet, 385(9977), pp.1555-1566.

García-Moreno, C., Zimmerman, C., Morris-Gehring, A., Heise, L., Amin, A., Abrahams, N., Montoya, O., Bhate-Deosthali, P., Kilonzo, N. and Watts, C., 2015. Addressing violence against women: a call to action. The Lancet, 385(9978), pp.1685-1695.

Jewkes, R., Flood, M. and Lang, J., 2015. From work with men and boys to changes of social norms and reduction of inequities in gender relations: a conceptual shift in prevention of violence against women and girls. The Lancet, 385(9977), pp.1580-1589.

Michau, L., Horn, J., Bank, A., Dutt, M. and Zimmerman, C., 2015. Prevention of violence against women and girls: lessons from practice. The Lancet, 385(9978), pp.1672-1684.

Salter, M., 2016. ‘Real men don't hit women’: Constructing masculinity in the prevention of violence against women. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 49(4), pp.463-479.