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This paper explores the implications of domestic and family violence occurring across borders, specifically the utilisation of border crossings to exert control and enact violence. While gendered violence can and does occur in border-crossing journeys, this paper focuses more specifically on how domestic and family violence extends across national borders and how violence (or the threat of violence and deportation) can manifest across multiple countries when women are temporary visa holders. This paper illuminates the way in which migration systems play a significant role in temporary migrant experiences of domestic and family violence. Drawing on a study of 300 temporary migrants and their experiences of domestic and family violence, I argue that perpetrators effectively weaponise the migration system to threaten, coerce and control women in different ways, most often with impunity. I also argue that we cannot focus on perpetrators and the individual alone—that we need to build on the border criminology scholarship that highlights the need to focus on systemic harm in the context of domestic and family violence and identify how the migration regime contributes to gendered violence.

This book explores the structural harm of borders and non-citizenship, specifically temporary non-citizenship, in the perpetuation of domestic and family violence (DFV). It focuses on the stories and situations of over 300 women in Australia. The analysis foregrounds how the state and the migration system both sustain and enable violence against women. In doing so this book demonstrates how structural violence is an insidious component of gendered violence – limiting and curtailing women's safety. The Borders of Violence advances contemporary research on DFV by considering the role of the state and the migration system. It bridges different fields of scholarship to interrogate our knowledge about DFV and its impacts and improve our critical accounts of gender, structural violence and borders. It illuminates the ways in which temporary non-citizens are often silenced and/or their experiences are obfuscated by state processes, policies and practices, which are weaponised by perpetrators in countries of destination and origin, with impunity. An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to students and scholars of border criminology, criminology, sociology, politics, sociology, law and social policy. It offers key insights for professionals, policymakers, stakeholders and advocates working broadly to support temporary non-citizens and/or to address and eliminate violence against women.

1. Incarceration, welfare state and labor market nexus : the increasing significance of gender in the prison system / Kristin Bumiller -- 2. Post-release support for women in England and Wales : the big picture / Kathleen Kendall -- 3. Therapeutic correctional spaces, transcarceral interventions : post-release support structures and realities experienced by women in Victoria, Australia / Bree Carlton and Eileen Baldry -- 4. To thrive or simply survive : parole and the post-release needs of Canadian women exiting prison / Kelly Hannah-Moffat and Nathan Innocente -- 5. Continuing systemic discrimination : indigenous Australian women exiting prison / Eileen Baldry -- 6. Post-release reality for women prisoners in Northern Ireland : the challenges of "resettlement" in a society emerging from conflict / Jacqueline Kerr and Linda Moore -- 7. A bit neo-liberal, a bit Fabian : interventionist narratives in a diversionary programme for women / Mary Corcoran and Claire Fox -- 8. Decentring the prison : abolitionist approaches to working with criminalized women / Debbie Kilroy. [et al.] -- 9. Resisting gendered carceral landscapes / Cassandra Shaylor and Erica R. Meiners.

Women's incarceration is on the rise globally and this has significant intergenerational, economic and humanitarian costs for communities across the world. While there have been efforts to implement reform, particularly in countries such as Canada, UK, US and Australia, the growing evidence suggests women's prisons and the support structures surrounding them are in crisis. This collection of critical essays presents groundbreaking research on women's post-imprisonment policy, practice and experiences. It is the first collection to offer international perspectives on gender, criminalisation, the effects of imprisonment and women-centred approaches to the short and long-term support of women exiting prison. It offers cutting-edge insights into contemporary policy developments and women's experiences across the US, the UK, Australia, Canada and Northern Ireland. The collection makes two important contributions. First, it marks a departure from an instrumental and individual focus on 'what works' to reduce women's offending and re-offending behaviour - a prevailing approach within competing collections focused on post-release issues. Second, it presents critical, original research with robust empirical foundations to revive feminist criminological engagement around gender, imprisonment, and most critically, post-release management, support and survival. The collection will appeal to academics and community-based advocates, activists, lawyers and practitioners engaged in advocacy and service provision for imprisoned women. It is also an important and unique analysis for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying criminological and social science courses particularly those related to gender and crime, imprisonment and correctional policy and qualitative research methods. Bree Carlton is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Monash University, Australia. Marie Segrave is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University, Australia. Publisher's note.

In this paper, we draw on accounts of family violence risk offered by women from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities living in Victoria Australia, and examine how women's migration and experiences of difference impact on the risks they face from family violence. Women in refugee and immigrant communities are often understood as experiencing additional barriers and vulnerabilities when they face family violence; implicitly creating a deficit model of vulnerability attached to women's intersectional marginalization particularly in terms of migration and service regimes.
Yet when we focus on women's own accounts of risk and safety, we argue that the 'vulnerabilities' these women experience are in fact predominantly created by service and legislative regimes that operate in terms of gender and migration. Rather than assuming that such vulnerabilities are inherent for women from CALD communities, we need to better recognise women's own assessments of risk and their searches for safety. Service and legislative responses that can support rather than inhibit women's efforts to secure their own safety are critical.

AbstractIn this article we document women's experiences of post‐release survival and death in Victoria, Australia. In particular, we map the interrelated impacts of trauma, criminalisation, institutionalisation and imprisonment. We build upon the existing post‐release mortality research, which has focused on quantifying and describing death, and provide a critical account of survival through the lens of women's experiences. Critically, we challenge the assumption that there is a distinction between survival and death, as many participants reported near‐death experiences occurring in a range of contexts. Ultimately we highlight the need to attend to these contexts in order to advance depth of understanding regarding the structural nature of post‐release disadvantage and survival.

The article examines the issue of women's unnatural post-prison deaths in Victoria, Australia, through the lens of women's accounts of survival and near-death after exit from prison. Central to this analysis is the seldom addressed or acknowledged relationship between trauma and the multiple harms and disadvantages that women experience both in the prison system and on the outside. In seeking to explicate the centrality oftrauma to women's experiences inside and outside the system, we draw upon the accounts of the women with whom we have spoken in the course of this research. A key theme that emerges from these narratives is the prevalence of trauma, near-death experiences and harms faced by women who have survived. Such accounts run counter to assumptions within existing post-release research that imprisonment comprises a discrete traumatic episode within a woman's life and that there is a useful distinction to be made between women who are strong enough to survive and those who die. In this way we offer a contribution towards revising possible future directions for critical feminist and prison scholars.

1. New forms of gendered surveillance? : intersections of technology and family violence / JaneMaree Maher, Jude McCulloch and Kate Fitz-Gibbon -- 2. Gendered exploitation in the digital border crossing? : an analysis of the human trafficking and information technology nexus / Sanja Milivojevic and Marie Segrave -- 3. Feminist flight and fight responses to gendered cyberhate / Emma Jane -- 4. Internet intermediaries and online gender-based violence / Elena Pavan -- 5. Anti-rape narratives and masculinity in online space : a case study of two young men's responses to the Steubenville rape case / Fairleigh Gilmour and Laura Vitis -- 6. The role of information and communication technologies in facilitating and resisting gendered forms of political violence / Gabrielle Bardall.