Men's places: literature review

This literature review examines the prevention of and response to family violence, focusing on the engagement of Indigenous men in remote communities.

This report includes information on:

• engagement
• barriers to engaging men
• service paradigms
• social exclusion
• changing the orientation of services to engage and support men
• exploring the potential role of a men’s space.

The report highlights the:

• need to work with Indigenous men
• limitations of mainstream law and order approaches to family violence
• lack of an evidence base for community-based approaches to family violence
• need to use models which represent men’s attitudes to violence, health, service delivery and changes to behavior.