Family Violence Awareness ● Sensibilisation à la violence familiale 31 Gender: Family violence affects people of all genders, but it is gendered.Women are more likely to be victims/survivors, and men are more likely to be perpetrators. People who identify as 2SLGBTQIA+ experience family violence at rates equal to or higher than cisgendered heterosexual people. Physical assault, sexual assault, and murder are crimes that occur in the context of family violence, a full understanding of which must include an analysis of their gendered nature. Health: Family violence can have significant impacts on the physical and mental health of victims and perpetrators. Health care workers play an important role in responding to people's immediate physical and emotional needs, and with proper training, can determine if symptoms are the consequences of family violence. Thus, health practitioners are a crucial link between survivors/perpetrators and family violence resources in the community. Immigrants: ThisViolence against Immigrant and Visible Minority Women Research Team explores the nature, extent and impact of multiple forms of violence experienced by different groups of immigrant women within urban and rural New Brunswick.The research is used to develop practical resources to assist stakeholders in addressing issues of domestic and community violence within the different immigrant groups in New Brunswick. Law: Only a small proportion of family violence incidents are reported to police – the front line of the legal system’s response to family violence. Other components of the legal system’s response include civil and criminal courts, victim services, prisons, probation, and treatment programs. Each of these components include laws and procedures as well as the professionals who enforce them. Research plays a role in assessing how effective the system and justice professionals are in ensuring justice for victims and holding perpetrators accountable for their actions. Sometimes changes to the legal system’s response to family violence have unintended consequences. Religion: The Religion andViolence Research Team examines the story of what happens when religious people look to their faith communities for help in the aftermath of violence in the family context. Members of the team have conducted studies with religious leaders, seminarians, women of faith, men who batter, congregations, shelter workers, advocates, criminal justice personnel, facilitators of faith-based continued
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