Published Research Outputs
Refereed Journal Articles
- Fitzgerald, R and Douglas, H, 'Domestic violence and the role of imprisonment as a response: men’s post-conviction talk about strangling women', Current Issues in Criminal Justice, online first 6 June 2025
- Conte, I, Sharman, L, and Douglas, H, ‘Choking/Strangulation During Sex: Understanding and negotiating ‘safety’ among 18-35 year old Australians’ Archives of Sexual Behaviour - online first 7 February, 2025
- Sharman, L, Douglas, H and Fitzgerald, R, ‘A Qualitative Exploration of the Impact of Increasing Criminalization on Domestic Violence Support Workers: Nonfatal Strangulation as a Case Study’, Violence Against Women - online first 24 October 2024
- Sharman, L, Fitzgerald, R and Douglas, H, 'Prevalence of Sexual Strangulation/Choking Among Australian 18-35 -year-olds' (2024) Archives of Sexual Behavior
- Douglas, H, and Fitzgerald, R, 'Prosecuting strangulation offences: understanding complaint withdrawal using a social entrapment lens' (2024) Current issues in Criminal Justice
- Douglas, H, Sharman, L and Fitzgerald, R, 'Domestic Violence, Sex, Strangulation and the ‘Blurry’ Question of Consent' (2024) 88(1)The Journal of Criminal Law 48-66
- Sharman, L, Fitzgerald, R and Douglas, H, 'Strangulation During Sex Among Undergraduate Students in Australia: Toward Understanding Participation, Harms, and Education' (2024) Sexuality Research and Social Policy
- Sharman, L, Fitzgerald, R and Douglas, H, 'Medical Evidence assisting non-fatal strangulation prosecution: A scoping review' (2023) 13(3) BMJ Open, e072077
- Douglas, H and Fitzgerald, R, 'Women’s stories of non-fatal strangulation: How should the criminal justice system respond?' (2022) 22(2) Criminology & Criminal Justice, 270-286
- Douglas, H and Fitzgerald, R, 'Proving non-fatal strangulation in family violence cases: A case study on the criminalisation of family violence', (2021) 25 (4) International Journal of Evidence and Proof, 350-370
- Edwards, S and Douglas, H, 'The criminalisation of a dangerous form of coercive control: Non-fatal Strangulation in England and Wales and Australia', (2021) 8 (1) Journal of International and Comparative Law , 87-119
- Kendall, S, 'Prosecution and Defence Strategies in Non-fatal Strangulation Cases: Are They Influenced By Victim Brain Injury and PTSD?' (2021) 45 Criminal Law Journal 297-315
Chapter in edited collection
- Heather Douglas and Robin Fitzgerald, ‘The Consequences of Criminalizing Domestic Violence: A Case Study of the Non-Fatal Strangulation Offense in Queensland, Australia,’ In eds. Heather Douglas, Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Leigh Goodmark and Sandra Walklate, The Criminalization of Violence Against Women: Comparative Perspectives, Oxford University Press, 2023, 209-228
Reports
- Sharman, L, Fitzgerald, R and Douglas, H, Women's Stories of Non-fatal Strangulation and their Opinions of the Justice Response, The University of Melbourne and The University of Queensland (2024)
- Sharman, L, Douglas, H and Fitzgerald, R, Understanding the non-fatal strangulation offence: Interviews with domestic violence service workers. Key Outcomes, The University of Melbourne and The University of Queensland (2022)
- Fitzgerald, R, Douglas, H, Pearce, E and Lloyd, M, The Prosecution of Non-fatal Strangulation Cases: An Examination of Finalised Prosecution Cases in Queensland, 2017 – 2020, The University of Melbourne and The University of Queensland (2022)
- Sharman, L, Fitzgerald, R and Douglas, H, Non-Fatal Strangulation offence convictions and outcomes: Insights from Queensland Wide Inter-linked Courts data, 2016/2017-2019/2020 , The University of Melbourne and The University of Queensland (2022)
- Sharman, L, Douglas, H and Fitzgerald, R, Review of domestic violence deaths involving fatal or non-fatal strangulation in Queensland, The University of Melbourne and The University of Queensland, Australia (2021)