Dr Mindy Sotiri says incarceration isn't the key to preventing violence against women. Video via AAP.
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00:00Look, I guess as an opening, what I want to say is that we absolutely need to take community safety seriously and there is an absolute crisis when it comes to violence against women and we absolutely need to form perpetrators of that violence to account.
00:16What the Justice Reform Initiative is saying is that we need to be very thoughtful about overusing incarceration when we know that prison does not work to address the social drivers of violence against women or in fact most crime.
00:32We need to also be very thoughtful about tightening bail legislation when we have seen in other jurisdictions the net widening that this has created.