Overview
Project status: In progress
- Grantor
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Australian Research Council Discovery Project
- Amount
- $227,000
- Research team
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QUT
External collaborators
- Associate Professor John Scott works in the School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Science at the University of New England. His research interests include the sociology of crime and deviance, sociology of sex and sexuality, and sociology of health and illness.
- Organisational unit
- Lead unit Law and Justice Research Centre Other units
Professor Kerry Carrington
Associate Professor Russell HoggDetails
Background to the project
Men in rural Australia on average consume more alcohol, take more risks, and have higher mortality and morbidity rates for violence including, interpersonal violence, alcohol related violence, domestic violence, suicide, motor vehicle accidents and workplace injuries compared to men in metropolitan Australia.
Main aims of the project
- To investigate types of violence, including: physical force or sexual assault; self-harm including suicide; alcohol-related violence; harassment and stalking; serious injury from the use of motor vehicles, weapons, or machinery; and other behavioural and risk factors resulting in preventable serious injuries.
- To explore potential reasons for identified patterns of statistically higher levels of some forms of violence for males living in mainstream communities in rural Australia in comparison to their counterparts living in metropolitan areas.
- To examine men's distinctive relationships with violence in rural contexts, both as perpetrators and victims.
- To consider how rural men experience and react to the changes sweeping rural communities.
- To evaluate the adequacy of existing policy responses to the issues.
Project outcomes
The results of the study will be widely disseminated through reports, publications, conference papers and presentations. The project aims to contribute to the development of more effective social policy responses aimed at ameliorating levels of violence in rural Australia.
