Newsletter
Kia ora and welcome to the latest newsletter from the NZFVC, a monthly update of resources, news and events for those working to prevent family violence in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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April began with the launch of the Ministry for Vulnerable Children, Oranga Tamariki. The Family and Whānau Violence Legislation Bill which will reform family violence legislation is now open for submissions.
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Tip of the Month
Recent resources
1 in 3 Be Free
1 in 3 Be Free is an app (mobile application) is designed to help women screen their relationships for abuse and to connect them to support services nearby. It was developed by the Inner City Women's Group. Apps for Android or Apple smartphones are available.
The danger signs
The It's not OK campaign has developed the Know the danger signs resource, including videos, to help friends, family and others to identify signs that someone is in danger of being killed by their partner.
Please contact the Information Specialist with any questions.
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New resources
Here are some of the books, reports, and other resources added to the NZFVC library this month. Use the "read more" link to the NZFVC library online to read the full summary and request or download the item. Please contact us if any links are broken.
New Zealand
Privacy Commissioner. (2017).
Inquiry into the Ministry of Social Development's collection of Individual-Client Level Data from NGOs. Wellington, New Zealand: Office of the Privacy Commissioner.
Summary: This report examines the Ministry of Social Development's (MSD) requirement for NGOs to provide individual client level data (ICLD). The Privacy Commissioner has criticised MSD's approach as "excessive and inconsistent with the privacy principles,"...
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Kerekere, E. (2017).
Growing up takatāpui: Whānau journeys. Auckland, New Zealand: Tīwhanawhana Trust & Rainbow Youth.
Summary: Interviews with seven takatāpui rangatahi and their whānau inform this resource about the journey to and the importance of whānau support in a takatāpui young person's life...
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Ministry of Justice. (2016).
Restorative justice victim satisfaction survey: Research report. Wellington, New Zealand: Ministry of Justice.
Summary: The Restorative Justice Victim Satisfaction Survey measures victims' experiences of, and satisfaction with Ministry of Justice-funded restorative justice processes. For this research, victims or their representatives from 24 restorative justice providers around New Zealand were interviewed via telephone...
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New Zealand Police. (2017).
A decade of change 2007 - 2017: Implementing the recommendations from the Commission of Inquiry into police conduct. Wellington, New Zealand: New Zealand Police.
Summary: This document provides a high-level overview of the progress New Zealand Police has made during the past 10 years in implementing the 47 Police-specific recommendations outlined in Dame Margaret Bazley's 2007 Commission of Inquiry into Police Conduct report...
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Rowe, M., & Macaulay, M. (2017).
Review of New Zealand Police's progress in response to the 2007 Commission of Inquiry into Police Conduct. Wellington, New Zealand: Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington.
Summary: The central remit of this review is to consider, in broad terms, the extent to which NZ Police has met the 'spirit and intent' of the CoI report and its Police-specific recommendations. This will supplement the work of the Police's own Commission of Inquiry Executive Oversight Group that has regularly audited progress relating to each individual recommendation...
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Parent, R. & Parent, C. (2017).
Commission of Inquiry into Police Conduct: Ethics training and conflicts of interest. Burnaby, BC: Police Studies Centre, Simon Fraser University.
Summary: In 2016 the New Zealand Police requested the authors to conduct a review of New Zealand's Police's progress in managing the changes called for in the 2007 Commission of Inquiry into Police Conduct (COI) as they pertain to ethics training, specifically recommendations R17 and R45...
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Journal articles
Contact your local library for full text access to articles which are not freely available online.
Beddoe, L. & Joy, E. (2017).
Questioning the uncritical acceptance of neuroscience in child and family policy and practice: A review of challenges to the current doxa.
Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 29(1): 65-76 (Open access
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Summary: Recent directions in child and family policy in many Anglophone countries, including Aotearoa New Zealand, are underpinned by the adoption of prevention science which is used to justify state interventions into the lives of families deemed "vulnerable" or "troubled". The authors conducted an examination of trends, firstly examining recent child welfare and protection policy...
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Fitzmaurice, L. (2017).
Children's voices in systems reform: A case study on children and young people's participation within the modernisation of Child, Youth and Family.
Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 29(1): 41-52 (Open access)
Summary: In 2015, an independent panel was appointed to overhaul Aotearoa New Zealand's care, protection and youth justice systems. This article discusses the mechanisms used to involve children and young people in that review and evaluates the extent to which these mechanisms lived up to best practice...
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Ioane, J., Lambie, I., & Percival, T. (2016).
A comparison of Pacific, Māori and European violent youth offenders in New Zealand.
International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 60(6): 657-674
Summary: This study compared Pacific Island violent youth offenders with Māori and European violent youth offenders to determine whether similarities or differences existed in their offending, social, and demographic characteristics. Family violence was present among all three ethnic groups highlighting the ongoing importance of intervention in this area...
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Rankine, J. (2016).
Wrestling with the hydra: Health and welfare workers' perspectives on women and alcohol in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Women's Studies Journal,30(2): 53-61 (Open access)
Summary: This article briefly describes the context of women's drinking and alcohol policy in Aotearoa/New Zealand and the methodology of interviewing service providers about the impacts of women's alcohol consumption. It then analyses the views of 40 health and social welfare professionals about their perceptions of alcohol-related harms to women...
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Rapsey, C., Campbell, A., Clearwater, K., & Patterson, T. (2017).
Listening to the therapeutic needs of male survivors of childhood sexual abuse.
Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Advance online publication, 3 April 2017
Summary: Childhood sexual abuse of males is not uncommon with estimated prevalence rates across countries and different studies indicating that 8% of boys experience sexual abuse before age 18. A number of adverse outcomes are recognized in terms of mental health, behavioral, and relational difficulties. However, research also indicates that there is potential for healing. The present study explores the barriers, benefits, and processes involved in engagement in formal therapy for adult survivors of CSA from the male survivor's point of view... Read more
International
Cameron, P. (2016).
Expanding early interventions in family violence in Victoria. Melbourne, Vic: Domestic Violence Victoria.
Summary: The Victorian Royal Commission into Family Violence (RCFV) envisaged a family violence system in which all universal services are enabled to engage in early interventions in family violence. Such a significant broad-based reform has major implications for organisations and their staff. This project scoped a range of specialist family violence and universal services and organisations in Victoria to ascertain their capability and perspectives on early intervention in family violence...
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2017).
Social norms. Atlanta, GA: CDC.
Summary: These webpages explore the concept of social norms and how to use a social norms approach to prevent violence. This resource is part of the VetoViolence suite of prevention information resources, created for a United States based audience...
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Townsend, S.M. (2017).
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nnovations in evaluation: A report on evaluation in the field of sexual violence prevention. Enola, PA: National Sexual Violence Resource Center.
Summary: This report highlights six US-based state- and local-level approaches to evaluation and explores organizational and individual factors of evaluation capacity. Building capacity for evaluation and evaluative thinking requires both organizational and individual change. Organizational factors include...
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Mitra-Kahn, T., Newbigin, C., & Hardefeldt, S. (2016).
Invisible women, invisible violence: Understanding and improving data on the experiences of domestic and family violence and sexual assault for diverse groups of women: State of knowledge paper (Landscapes, 2016, DD01). Sydney, NSW: ANROWS.
Summary: This paper establishes the state of knowledge about the experiences of domestic and family violence and sexual assault among women from diverse groups. Reviewing existing knowledge and data on the experiences of violence and identifying key gaps in data as they relate to diverse women, it also affirms the more complex message that, while we know there is disproportionate impact, the exact nature and scale of this difference is extremely difficult to quantify...
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Vaughan, C., Davis, E., Murdolo, A., Chen, J., Murray, L., Block, K., Quiazon, R., & Warr, D. (2016).
Promoting community-led responses to violence against
immigrant and refugee women in metropolitan and regional
Australia. The ASPIRE Project: Research report (Horizons, Issue 7). Sydney, NSW: ANROWS.
Summary: Although immigrant and refugee women in Australia face particular barriers to accessing services aimed at preventing and responding to family violence, the understanding of the character and context of this problem is limited. Through research into local experiences and responses, ANROWS's ASPIRE project aims to contribute to the development of responsive and accessible community-based interventions and increase the understanding of the nature and dynamics of violence against immigrant and refugee women in different Australian contexts...
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Read the brief
Compass summary or the
Landscapes state of knowledge
Journal articles
Contact your local library for full text access to articles which are not freely available online.
Coker, D. & Macquoid, A.D. (2015).
Why opposing hyper-incarceration should be central to the work of the anti-domestic violence movement.
University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review, 5: 585-618 (Open access)
Summary: The number of people in U.S. prisons and jails has experienced an astounding six-fold increase since the 1970s. This growth in the number of people imprisoned is unprecedented in U.S. history and outstrips the current incarceration rates of any other country. In this article, the authors explain how this hyper-incarceration has devastating effects on those under criminal justice system control and those close to them and weakens the social structures of entire communities. The authors demonstrate that these negative effects of hyper-incarceration increase the risks for domestic violence... Read more
Gregory, A., Feder, G., Taket, A., & Williamson, E. (2017)
Qualitative study to explore the health and well-being impacts on adults providing informal support to female domestic violence survivors.
BMJ Open, 2017, 7: e014511 (Open access)
Summary: The aim of this study was exploratory, with the following research question: what are the health and well-being impacts on adults who provide informal support to female domestic violence survivors?... Read more
Johnson, H., Eriksson, L., Mazerolle, P., & Wortley, R. (2017).
Intimate femicide: The role of coercive control.
Feminist Criminology, Advance online publication, 7 April 2017
Summary: Severe and escalating violence is cited as a precursor to intimate partner homicide and figures prominently in risk assessments and domestic violence death reviews. Drawing on interviews from the Australian Homicide Project with a sample of men convicted of killing intimate partners, the authors examine the backgrounds of perpetrators and the contexts in which the killings occurred and find that fully half report no physical or sexual assaults against their partners in the year prior to the homicide... Read more
Tarzia, L., Valpied, J., Koziol-McLain, J., Glass, N., & Hegarty, K. (2017).
Methodological and ethical challenges in a web-based randomized controlled trial of a domestic violence intervention.
Journal of Medical Internet Research, 19(3):e94 (Open access)
Summary: This paper uses the case study of I-DECIDE, a web-based healthy relationship tool and safety decision aid for women experiencing DV, developed in Australia. The I-DECIDE website has recently been evaluated through a randomized controlled trial, and the outline some of the methodological and ethical challenges encountered during recruitment, retention, and evaluation... Read more
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In the news
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Backbone Collective releases first report on the Family Court - 6 Apr, 2017
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Auckland High Court orders retrial of case under Harmful Digital Communications Act - 6 Apr, 2017
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Privacy Commissioner's report criticises MSD collection of individual client level data - 6 Apr, 2017
The Privacy Commissioner has published his report examining the Ministry of...
Police publish summary of 10 years of monitoring conduct - 4 Apr, 2017
New Zealand Police have published a final report summarising how the Police...
Ministry for Vulnerable Children, Oranga Tamariki launched 1 April 2017 - 3 Apr, 2017
The Ministry for Vulnerable Children Oranga Tamariki began operating on 1 April...
New resource for whānau and takatāpui rangatahi (sexuality and gender diverse youth) - 30 Mar, 2017
Dr Elizabeth Kerekere, Tīwhanawhana Trust and RainbowYOUTH have produced a resource...
Shakti publishes new handbook for migrant & refugee youth experiencing family violence - 28 Mar, 2017
The Shakti Youth Unit has developed a new handbook for migrant and refugee...
MSD update on sexual violence services - consultations open - 28 Mar, 2017
The Ministry of Social Development's (MSD) recent update on sexual violence...
Ministers to host family violence summit in Wellington - 23 Mar, 2017
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Submissions open on domestic violence workplace bill; new research on economic abuse - 21 Mar, 2017
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Social Development Minister Anne Tolley has indicated she will reconsider draft...
Temporary reprieve for sexual violence services on individual client level data - 16 Mar, 2017
The Ministry of Social Development (MSD) has advised that specialist sexual...
Government introduces Bill to reform family violence laws - 15 Mar, 2017
The Government has introduced its Bill to reform family violence laws...
Latest Better Public Service data - increase in reported violent crime - 14 Mar, 2017
The Government has released the latest results from the Better Public Service...
Pilot of supervised handover service for children - 14 Mar, 2017
The Government announced a new pilot to reduce exposure to family violence and...
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