Domestic Abuse Proceedings In Family Courts: Overlap And Pathways In Private And Public Family Justice

在英格兰和威尔士，除了基本的国家统计数据外，没有在国家一级研究家庭法院的家庭虐待诉讼。直到最近，对国家家庭司法数据的研究一直限于不完整的家庭虐待诉讼程序，需要谈判复杂的数据共享协议。研究金的研究阶段将结合联合收割机：（1）更容易获得的家庭法院申请数据，（2）新颖的家庭法院数据，（3）这些家庭司法数据集之间的新联系，以及（4）与威尔士人口统计和儿童社会护理数据的额外联系，以探索家庭司法系统对在家庭法院提出或面临家庭虐待指控的人的经验，社会工作者在三分之一的儿童转介评估中发现了对父母暴力形式的家庭虐待的关切。家庭虐待是其子女成为照顾程序对象的生母的常见经历，并且在超过一半的私人子女安排案件中具有特征。在2011年至2021年初的整个拟议分析期内，家庭法院提供了两种类型的保护措施，以禁止骚扰和排除或管制在家庭住宅中的存在。违反前者可构成刑事犯罪，但违反后者则不能。这两种措施可以同时适用，在紧急情况下，法院可以不向被指控的施虐者发出诉讼通知。了解家庭虐待诉讼与其他类型的私人和公共诉讼重叠的地方，以及家庭如何驾驭它们，对于确保及时做出满足人们需求的决定，避免无理取闹的诉讼并鼓励可能出现寒蝉效应的申请非常重要。目前，人们认识到，政策制定者需要填补有关家庭司法系统和家庭虐待诉讼进展的知识空白。司法部有一个途径和成果跨领域研究主题，并对了解案件进展、案件及时性、需求驱动因素以及如何满足家庭虐待受害者的需要以及在家庭和刑事法院解决法律的问题有额外的兴趣。正在寻求专业知识，例如在有影响力的伤害小组报告（2020年）或家庭虐待专员的新办公室中提供关于私法儿童诉讼中家庭虐待指控的证据的小组。该奖学金旨在增加人们如何使用家庭虐待程序的背景，因为他们通过家庭司法系统移动，解决四个主要目标：1。增加对家庭法院家庭虐待诉讼程序的了解：描述申请家庭虐待禁令的趋势及其结果，并解决现有国家统计数据中的差距。2.确定家庭虐待诉讼和家庭法院的其他诉讼之间的重叠：比较家庭虐待案件相对于公私家庭法中其他类型案件的时间，并比较家庭虐待案件中的家庭群体。探讨的挑战和局限性的两个额外的联系，人口和儿童的社会关怀数据在威尔士，和研究价值的联系，以确定儿童人口谁与父母生活在威尔士家庭虐待诉讼。3.探索进入和通过家庭司法系统的个人谁经历家庭虐待程序移动的主要途径。考虑的方法包括序列分析、事件史和生存分析。将使用逻辑回归或回归分析探讨与加入路径相关的因素以及与重塑路径相关的因素。改善专业人员对家庭虐待诉讼中的人提供的在线非正式支持的指示。

Domestic abuse proceedings in family courts are not studied at national level in England and Wales beyond basic national statistics. Until recently, research access to national family justice data has been restricted to incomplete sets of domestic abuse proceedings, with complex data sharing agreements to negotiate. The research phase of the Fellowship will combine (1) more easily accessed data on applications to family courts, (2) novel family court data, (3) new linkages between those family justice datasets and (4) additional linkages to Welsh demographics and children's social care data, to explore experiences of the family justice system for people who make or face allegations of domestic abuse in family courts, and associated persons including children.Social workers identify concerns about violent forms of domestic abuse towards a parent in a third of children referrals assessments. Domestic abuse is a common experience among birth mothers whose children become subject to care proceedings, and features in over half of private child arrangement cases. Two types of protective measures were available in family courts throughout the proposed period of analysis, 2011 to early 2021, to prohibit molestation and to exclude or regulate presence in the family home. Breach of the former can be a criminal offence, although breach of the latter cannot. Both types of measures can be applied for at the same time, and in emergency situations the court can dispense with giving notice of the proceedings to the alleged abuser. Understanding where domestic abuse proceedings overlap with other types of private and public proceedings, and how families navigate them is important to ensure timely decisions that meet people's needs, to avoid vexatious litigation and to encourage applications where chilling effects may arise.At present, there is a recognition that policymakers need knowledge gaps to be filled about progression through the family justice system and domestic abuse proceedings. The Ministry of Justice has a Pathways and Outcomes cross-cutting research theme, and additional interests in understanding case progression, case timeliness, drivers of demand, and how to meet the needs of domestic abuse victims with legal issues to resolve in family and criminal courts. Expertise is being sought such as that of the panel who provided evidence on domestic abuse allegations in private law children proceedings in the influential Harm Panel Report (2020) or the new office of Domestic Abuse Commissioner. The Fellowship aims to add context about how people use domestic abuse proceedings as they move through the family justice system, addressing four main objectives:1. Increase knowledge around domestic abuse proceedings in family courts: Describe trends about applications for domestic abuse injunctions and their outcomes and address gaps from available national statistics. 2. Identify the overlap between domestic abuse proceedings and other proceedings in family courts: Compare the timing of domestic abuse cases relative to other types of cases in private public family law, and compare the family groups across domestic abuse cases. Explore the challenges and limitations of two additional linkages to demographics and children's social care data in Wales only, and the research value of the linkages for identifying the child population who lives with a parent involved in domestic abuse proceedings in Wales. 3. Explore the main pathways entering and moving through the family justice system for individuals who experience domestic abuse proceedings. Methods to be considered will include sequence analysis, event history and survival analysis. The factors associated with joining a pathway and those associated with re-shaping pathways will be explored using logistic regression or regression analysis.4. Improve signposting by professionals to online informal support available to people in domestic abuse proceedings.