Preventing Violence in Australia Dr. Ephrem Fernandez

The book neatly describes its own purpose: for all of those who are interested in understanding and preventing violence in Australia. In reality the book is a broad collection of essays from the leading academics in Australia and New Zealand examining the whole spectrum of violence from the home, in the workplace, schools, Aboriginal communities, in the context of alcohol and substance abuse, mental illness, amongst youth, from a victim and perpetrator point of view and just about every other dimension one might consider. Whilst the writers are commentating on Australasia and its many faceted communities much of the work is relevant to the Western World in general.

– Steve Hall, Director of Reducing re-offending Serco Australia and New Zealand