Family violence: Portrait of an abuser

Family violence has a face and we now know what it looks like: an unemployed, 34-year-old Australian-born man. The Royal Commission into Family Violence - a vast compendium of more than 2000 pages and seven volumes - draws on a wealth of data about the perpetrators - and victims - of family violence, collected over more than a decade. Thanks to that data, we now know that it is a small proportion of domestic abusers who account for most of the abuse. Advertisement Similarly, most incidents of domestic violence happen only once - or,...