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  • Caple, V., & Bland, M. (2025). An exploratory analysis of repeat victimisation of domestic violence disclosure scheme applicants. Police Practice & Research, 26(1), 101–109. https://doi.org/10.1080/15614263.2024.2415443
  • Renehan, N., Barlow, C., & Walklate, S. (2025). Self-blame and (becoming) the crazy ex: Domestic abuse, information sharing and responsibilisation. Criminology & Criminal Justice, 25(5), 1573–1588. https://doi.org/10.1177/17488958231207463
  • Barlow, C., Walklate S., & Renehan, N. (2024). Criminal justice policy and victim-survivor empowerment: A case study of domestic violence disclosure schemes in England and Wales. feminists@law, 13, (1). Available here
  • Walklate, S., Reeves, E., & Fitz-Gibbon, K. (2024). Exploring the outcomes of divergent approaches to the policy making process: Domestic violence disclosure schemes and perpetrator registers in Australia. feminists@law, 13(1). Available here
  • Barlow, C., Walklate, S., & Renehan, N. (2024). Rendering them responsible: victim-survivors experiences of Clare’s Law and domestic violence disclosure schemes. Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 8(1), 83–97. https://doi.org/10.1332/239868021X16751803681186
  • Walklate, S., & Fitz-Gibbon, K. (2023). Domestic violence disclosure schemes: The opportunities and limits of technology and information sharing. In D. Woodlock & B. Harris (Eds.), Technology and Domestic and Family Violence (1st ed., Vol. 1, pp. 163–173). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429316098-16
  • Hadjimatheou, K. (2023). Using criminal histories to empower victim–survivors of domestic abuse. European Journal of Criminology, 20(3), 1106–1122. https://doi.org/10.1177/14773708221128249
  • Hadjimatheou, K. (2023). An international review and normative examination of the collateral consequences of criminal record disclosures for domestic abuse. Criminology & Criminal Justice, 23(4), 648–668. https://doi.org/10.1177/17488958231162514
  • Hadjimatheou, K. (2022). ‘Social Care Told me I Had to’: Empowerment And Responsibilization in The Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme. British Journal of Criminology, 62(2), 320–336. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azab069
  • Grace, J. (2022). Domestic abuse disclosure schemes : problems with policy, regulation and legality. Palgrave Macmillan. Available here.
  • Hadjimatheou, K., & Grace, J. (2021). “No black and white answer about how far we can go”: police decision making under the domestic violence disclosure scheme. Policing & Society, 31(7), 834–847. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2020.1795169
  • Duggan, M. (2019). Reflections on the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme (England and Wales). Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 3(2), 249–257. https://doi.org/10.1332/239868019X15538584809332
  • Duggan, M. (2018). ‘Idealising’ domestic violence victims. In Revisiting the “Ideal Victim.” Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447338765.003.0010
  • Fitz-Gibbon, K., & Walklate, S. (2017). The efficacy of Clare’s Law in domestic violence law reform in England and Wales. Criminology & Criminal Justice, 17(3), 284–300. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895816671383
  • Duggan, M. (2018). Victim hierarchies in the domestic violence disclosure scheme. International Review of Victimology, 24(2), 199–217. https://doi.org/10.1177/0269758017749116
  • Duggan, M. and Grace, J. (2018) Assessing vulnerabilities in domestic violence disclosure schemes. Child and Family Quarterly 20(2) : 146-66. Available here.
  • Greene, E., & O’Leary, J. (2018). Domestic violence disclosure schemes: Effective law reform or continued assertion of patriarchal power? Bond Law Review, 30(1), 55–82. https://doi.org/10.53300/001c.5661
  • Wangmann, J. (2016). Has he been violent before? Domestic violence disclosure schemes. Alternative Law Journal, 41(4), 230–234. https://doi.org/10.1177/1037969X1604100403
  • Grace, J. (2015). Clare’s Law, or the national Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme: the contested legalities of criminality information sharing. Journal of Criminal Law (Hertford), 79(1), 36–45. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022018314564732
  • Bessant, C. (2015). Protecting Victims of Domestic Violence—Have We Got the Balance Right? Journal of Criminal Law (Hertford), 79(2), 102–121. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022018315574820
  • Grace, J. (2014). Disclosing domestic violence: Jamie Grace critically assesses the national roll out of the domestic violence disclosure scheme. Criminal Justice Matters, 97(1), 18–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/09627251.2014.950518