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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
Agency compliance with Regulations 69 and 85 of the Oranga Tamariki (National Care Standards and Related Matters) Regulations
Independent Children's Monitor
Independent Children's Monitor report, December 2019
Summary
: The purpose of this initial report is to provide the Minister for Children and the New Zealand public with insight into how the four agencies who have custody of children are performing against regulations 69 and 85 (and to the extent that it applies to those regulations, regulation 86) of the National Care Standards (NCS) Regulations. The period covered by this report is the three months from 1 July 2019 to 30 September 2019...
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Child witnesses in NZ criminal courts: Issues, responses, opportunities
Chief Victims Advisor to Government (Kim McGregor).
Hāpaitia te Oranga Tangata Safe and Effective Justice, 2019
Summary: This paper considers the problems facing child witnesses who testify in the NZ adult criminal courts, and responses and opportunities to address those problems. Most children who testify in the adult courts do so as complainants of sexual offence cases... Read more
Children's rights in Aotearoa New Zealand: Reflections on the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Nessa Lynch, Chair of the Symposium Steering Group
New Zealand Law Foundation, 2019
Summary: This collection brings together a series of reflections on the rights of children/tamariki on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. These reflections arose out of a symposium held in Wellington in August 2019. Some are written by those who presented at the symposium, others from participants... Read more
ComVoices state of the sector survey
ComVoices, 2019
Summary: This third snapshot survey of the community sector, conducted by ComVoices, shows pressures and stresses on community organisations continue. Organisations are dealing with greater workloads, without a corresponding increase in funding... Read more
Engagement report: Sexual harm crisis support services
Family and Community Services Team
Ministry of Social Development, 2019
Summary: In May, as part of Budget 2019, the Government announced investment of $90.3 million over four years to strengthen support for victims/survivors and perpetrators of sexual violence. Following this announcement, the Ministry of Social Development's (MSD) Sexual Violence Service Development team visited currently contracted Sexual Harm Crisis Support Service (SHCSS) providers throughout the country. This document summarises key feedback themes from this engagement... Read more
Harmonised: The usefulness for whānau
Moira Howson, Te Wai Barbarich, Jackie Feather and Jane Koziol-McLain
Presented at Making a difference mental health symposium, Auckland, 1 December 2017
Summary
: The Harmonised app was developed as part of a four-year research study to help taitamariki (young people) develop and promote healthy relationships in Aotearoa New Zealand, funded by MBIE (see https://harmonised.co.nz). The findings on the app's usefulness for mothers were presented at the Making a difference mental health symposium organised by Te Pou in December 2017. This is the presentation in PDF format...
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See also video highlights from
Ano te pai te āhuareka, a te ira tāne me te ira wāhine: Harmonised Youth Conference
Held in August 2019... Read more
Identity and help in calls to Victim Support
Emma G. Tennent
PhD thesis, Victoria University of Wellington, 2019
Summary: The link between identity and action is a fundamental topic across the social sciences. A key site to investigate this relationship is social interaction, where identities and social relations are built and used to accomplish action. In this thesis, I used discursive psychology to analyse the relationship between identity and the action of help in recorded calls to a victim support helpline. Victim is a contentious identity, with feminists and other critical scholars pointing to the politics involved when certain people are categorised as victims and others are overlooked. The findings provide evidence for the mutually constitutive relationship between identity and action... Read more
Mana Wahine reader: A collection of writings. Volume I (1987-1998) and Volume II (1999-2019)
Edited by Leonie Pihama, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Naomi Simmonds, Joeliee Seed-Pihama and Kirsten Gabel
Hamilton, New Zealand: Te Kotahi Research Institute, 2019
Education Research Monograph
, nos. 3 & 4, 2019
Summary: These two Mana Wahine readers provide access to writings related to Mana Wahine and/or Māori women's writings on Māori feminist approaches which may be difficult to access from their original source. Volume II includes a number of recently published articles... Read more
Volume I (1987-1998)
Volume II (1999-2019)
Parents' and caregivers' views of relationship and sexuality education
New Zealand Family Planning, 2020
Summary: Family Planning thought it was timely and important to hear more from parents in New Zealand about their views of relationship and sexuality education, both at home and school. This survey is a follow-up to a survey on young people's views of relationship and sexuality education and is part two of a three-part series to improve our understanding of how we can better meet the needs of young people, parents and caregivers, and teachers... Read more
Pēpi Māori 0-3 months and the care and protection system: Statistical snapshot
Office of the Children's Commissioner, 2020
Summary: This statistical snapshot is part of a review being conducted by the Office of the Children's Commissioner into what needs to change to enable pēpi Māori 0-3 months to remain in the care of their whānau when Oranga Tamariki-Ministry for Children (Oranga Tamariki) is notified of care and protection concerns... Read more
Purea nei: Changing the culture of the legal profession
Allanah Colley, Ana Lenard and Bridget McLay
New Zealand Law Foundation, 2019
Summary: This report comes from a project to engage people of all genders in the legal profession in New Zealand about issues such as workplace expectations and culture, diversity and inclusion, sexual harassment, bullying, gender equality, training and education, leadership, management, remuneration, the future of work and several other employment-related issues... . Read more
Relentless not romantic: Intimate partner stalking in Aotearoa New Zealand
Natalie Thorburn and Ang Jury
National Collective of Independent Women's Refuges, 2019
Summary: Stalking is a sequence of unwanted contact, monitoring, surveillance, and sabotage. This research looks specifically at intimate partner stalking (IPS), perpetrated against partners or ex-partners. Common stalking actions can include showing up, driving past, confrontation, calling repeatedly or texting/direct messaging incessantly, posting on social media, delivering gifts or tokens, using spyware or obtaining access to private information and communication, making threats, contacting people proximal to the victim, and sabotaging the victim's freedom and prospects... Read more
Te tangi o te manawanui: Recommendations for reform: Strengthening the criminal justice system for victims
Chief Victims Advisor to Government (Kim McGregor)
Hāpaitia te Oranga Tangata Safe and Effective Justice, 2019
Summary:
This report is a synthesis of what victims told the Chief Victims Advisor through the survey and the workshop, at subsequent engagements with victims across the country and her experiences talking to victims and personnel within the justice system over her three years as Chief Victims Advisor to Government...
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Turuki! Turuki! Move together transforming our criminal justice system
Second report of Te Uep
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Hāpai i te Ora - Safe and Effective Justice Advisory Group, 2019
Summary: This report calls for a fundamental reshaping of Aotearoa New Zealand's justice system to one which prevents harm, addresses its causes, and promotes
healing and restoration among individuals and communities... Read more
What is known about effective recovery services for men who have been sexually abused? An evidence review
Sue Carswell, Elaine Donovan and Hector Kaiwai
Ministry of Social Development, 2019
Summary: This literature review brings together current evidence about effective approaches to support men who have been sexually abused (as children and/or adults) in their journey of recovery... Read more
What were they thinking? A discussion paper on brain and behaviour in relation to the justice system in New Zealand
Ian Lambie
Office of the Prime Minister's Chief Science Advisor, 2020
Summary
: This is the fourth in a series of reports. It presents strong evidence of the over-representation of people in the criminal justice system who have had brain injuries, shedding new light on the impact of such injuries and developmental differences on both victims and offenders...
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Aroha and manaakitanga - That's what it is about: Indigenous women, "love," and interpersonal violence
Denise Wilson, Alayne Mikahere-Hall, Debra Jackson, Karina Cootes and Juanita Sherwood
Journal of Interpersonal Violence
, 2019, Advance online publication, 29 August 2019
Summary
: Māori women (Aotearoa New Zealand's Indigenous women) experience a high burden of harm and homicide associated with intergenerational family violence, complicated by the ongoing effects of colonialism. Also, the historical, social, and cultural complexities, such as poverty and structural racism, challenge further Māori women seeking help. In this project, the authors sought to answer two questions: What are Māori women's sociocultural constructions of "love" within relationships with violent partners? What roles do traditional cultural values play in their relationships? ...
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Constituting and responding to domestic and sexual violence
Ann Weatherall
Gender and Language, 2019, 13(2): 149-152
Summary: The contributions to this special issue provide clear evidence that linguistic and discursive constructions, alongside institutional practices on domestic and sexual violence, draw upon and reproduce a cultural scaffolding of rape, in which women's agency and credibility is repeatedly and systemically undermined... Read more
Disclosing violence in calls for help
Emma Tennent and Ann Weatherall
Gender and Language, 2019, 13(2)
Summary: Violence against women is a pervasive problem, both in New Zealand society and around the world. Yet assessing the scale and effects of violence is difficult, as many women face barriers to disclosure. This paper examines women's disclosures of violence in calls for help to a victim support agency... Read more
'It's Not OK', but 'It' never happened: Parental alienation accusations undermine children's safety in the New Zealand Family Court
Deborah Mackenzie, Ruth Herbert and Neville Robertson
Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 2020, Advance publication online, 7 January 2020
Summary: While the public campaign slogan in New Zealand when referring to family violence, is 'It's Not OK', many women in New Zealand report that the Family Court prefers the catchphrase 'It never happened'. When women and children escaping violence and abuse reach out to the New Zealand Family Court for protection believing the justice system will help them, they often enter an alternative reality where they are not believed and are subsequently made less safe.... Read more
The affective burden of separated mothers in PA(S) inflected custody law systems: A New Zealand case study
Vivienne Elizabeth
Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 2020, Advance publication online, 7 January 2020
Summary: Custody law systems across the Anglo-West are increasingly characterised by the overt and covert use of parental alienation (syndrome) as an aid to the governance of post-separation mothers. Difficulties with care arrangements within PA(S) inflected custody law systems are often regarded as evidence of mothers' alienating behaviours, resulting in a range of remedial, coercive and punitive censures, including losing resident parent status. The author argues here that the synergistic interaction between custody law and PA(S) creates an affective burden for post-separation mothers... Read more
Harm, care and babies: An inequalities and policy discourse perspective on recent child protection trends in Aotearoa New Zealand
Emily Keddell
Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 2019, 31(4): 18-34
Summary: Examining basic trends in child protection statistics gives some insight into the functioning of the system overall. This article uses Official Information Act and publicly available data to examine recent trends of children in contact with the Aotearoa New Zealand child protection system. It discusses these trends with reference to child protection policy reforms, and an inequalities perspective... Read more
Nga Vaka o Kaiga Tapu
Rachel Enosa, Fa'amatuainu Tino Pereira, Seini Taufa, Gerardine Clifford-Lidstone, Akesa Filimoehala-Burling
Tu Mau (Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work), 2018, 30(4): 13-18
Summary: When broken down by ethnicity, Pacific people are twice as likely to be offenders who have committed a serious crime against a family member; Pacific students are three times as likely as Aotearoa New Zealand European students to report witnessing adults hit children in their homes and five times more likely to die from child abuse or neglect. Although there is no one single component that can be attributed to family violence, there are three contributing factors that are unique to the experiences of Pacific people in Aotearoa New Zealand... Read more
Reflecting and learning: A grounded theory on reframing deficit views of young indigenous women and safety
Denise Wilson, Karina Cootes, Alayne Mikahere-Hall, Juanita Sherwood, Kay Berryman and Debra Jackson
Health Care for Women International, 2019, Advance online publication, 27 June 2019
Summary: Often young indigenous women are framed in ways that problematise and pathologise them, which overlooks their strengths. We interviewed 16 young Indigenous Maori women aged 14 to 18 years about their understandings of safety, being safe, and how they kept themselves and their friends safe... Read more
Specialist sexual violence social work: Ensuring good practice
Bridget Leary and Kathryn Hay
Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 2019, 31(4): 60-71
Summary: This research sought to understand social workers' perspectives on good practice in specialist sexual violence social work practice in Aotearoa New Zealand... Read more
Strategies to support culturally safe health and wellbeing evaluations in Indigenous settings in Australia and New Zealand: A concept mapping study
Margaret Cargo, Gill Potaka-Osborne, Lynley Cvitanovic, Lisa Warner, Sharon Clarke, Jenni Judd, Amal Chakraborty and Amohia Boulton
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2019, 18: 194. Online
Summary: In recent decades, financial investment has been made in health-related programs and services to overcome inequities and improve Indigenous people's wellbeing in Australia and New Zealand. This study aimed to strengthen culturally safe evaluation practice in Indigenous settings by engaging evaluation stakeholders, in both countries, in a participatory concept mapping study. Concept maps for each country were generated from multi-dimensional scaling and hierarchical cluster analysis... Read more
A Treaty-based framework for mainstream social work education in Aotearoa New Zealand : educators talk about their practice
David McNabb
Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 2019, 31(4): 4-17
Summary: Globally, indigenous social work educators have pursued decolonisation and the development of decolonising practices as part of the indigenous peoples' rights movement and based on social work principles of self-determination and social justice. Māori have advanced decolonisation based on the original partnership that was envisaged in the Treaty of Waitangi signed between Māori and the British Crown in 1840. Aotearoa New Zealand social work education has a stated commitment to a Treaty-based partnership approach. This research engaged focus groups along with interviews of social work educators from nine of the 19 programmes across Aotearoa New Zealand... Read more
Why cultural safety rather than cultural competency is required to achieve health equity: A literature review and recommended definition
Elana Curtis, Rhys Jones, David Tipene-Leach, Curtis Walker, Belinda Loring, Sarah-Jane Paine and Papaarangi Reid
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2019, 18: 174. Online
Summary: Eliminating indigenous and ethnic health inequities requires addressing the determinants of health inequities which includes institutionalised racism, and ensuring a health care system that delivers appropriate and equitable care. There is growing recognition of the importance of cultural competency and cultural safety at both individual health practitioner and organisational levels to achieve equitable health care. A literature review of 59 international articles on the definitions of cultural competency and cultural safety was undertaken... Read more
Women in prison with traumatic brain injury: Prevalence, mechanism, and impact on mental health
Rachel Woolhouse, Audrey McKinlay and Randolph C. Grace
International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 2018, 62(10): 3135-3150
Summary: Relatively little is known about the characteristics of female offenders. Here, we studied the prevalence of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and mental health issues in an exclusively female prison population in New Zealand... Read more
International
Fourth Action Plan 2019 - 2022 of the National plan to reduce violence against women and their children 2010 - 2022
Council of Australian Governments
Canberra, ACT: Department of Social Services, 2019
Summary: This document sets out the Fourth Action Plan: Turning the Corner 2019-2022, the final action plan in the series. As the final action plan of the National Plan is released, now is the time to reflect, learn, and take further action... Read more
Gender stereotyping in early childhood: A literature review
Leah Culhane and Andrew Bazeley
Fawcett Society, 2019
Summary: This report represents an initial sweep of a diverse body of literature, encompassing neurobiology, psychology, education, and economics, as well as the work of a range of tireless campaigners for change... Read more
The Hague principles on sexual violence
Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice
The Hague, The Netherlands: Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice, 2019
Summary: Over the course of 2019, over 50 civil society organisations came together to bring the voices of survivors to the forefront of discussions about addressing sexual violence. More than 500 survivors were consulted on what they think makes violence 'sexual'... Read more
Keeping the promise: Ending violence against children by 2030
Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General on Violence against Children - New York: United Nations, 2019
Summary: This report documents what has been achieved to date through collective action, reminds us of the prevalence and nature of violence, sets out the evidence on solutions, and charts a course for accelerated progress... Read more
Limiting our livelihoods: The cumulative impact of sexual harassment on women's careers
Deborah J. Vagins and Mary Gatta
Washington, DC: American Association of University Women (AAUW), 2019
Summary
: This research report from the AAUW finds that workplace sexual harassment can take a toll on women's physical and mental health, limit their job choices, reduce prospects for career development and even force them out of the workforce...
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Preventing intimate partner violence among young people: The role of comprehensive sexuality education.
Shelly Makleff, Florencia Barindelli, Rosa Icela Zavala, Jovita Garduño, Vanessa Ivon Silva Márquez, Cicely Marston
London: ALiGN: Advancing Learning and Innovation in Gender Norms, 2019
Summary: Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) may help prevent intimate partner violence (IPV) among young people by addressing the harmful gender norms that perpetuate inequitable relationships and violence. Despite its potential, few evaluations of CSE interventions have measured IPV or changes in related attitudes and social norms. To address this gap in the evidence base, this study examines how a CSE intervention in Mexico may help to address unequal gender norms... Read more
What will it take? Promoting cultural change to end sexual harassment
New York: UN Women, 2019
Summary: This publication aims to support efforts towards ending sexual harassment including by employers, workers, advocates, university leaders, academics, NGOs, students, policy makers, trade unions and staff associations and politicians... Read more
Journal articles
Contact your local library for full text access to articles which are not freely available online
The association between gender inequality and sexual violence in the U.S.
Megan C.Kearns, Ashley Schappell D'Inverno and Dennis E. Reidy
American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2020, 58(1): 12-20
Summary: Few societal-level factors are established as risk or protective factors for sexual violence. Traditional gender norms and gender inequality are linked to sexual violence, but much of this research was conducted internationally or is becoming outdated and may not reflect current norms in the U.S. This study expands on previously published research by examining gender inequality's association with state-level sexual violence... Read more
Caring Dads Safer Children: Families' perspectives on an intervention for maltreating fathers
Nicola McConnell, Matt Barnard and Julie Taylor
Psychology of Violence
, 2017, 7(3), 406-416
Summary: The objective of the study was to evaluate whether Caring Dads Safer Children (CDSC), a program for domestically abusive fathers based on the Canadian Caring Dads model and delivered by a United Kingdom based children's charity, improved outcomes for the fathers' families and reduced the risk of further exposure to domestic abuse... Read more
Gay, bisexual, and queer men's attitudes and understandings of intimate partner violence and sexual assault
Michael Salter, Kerry Robinson, Jacqueline Ullman, Nida Denson, Georgia Ovenden, Kai Noonan, Peter Bansel and Kate Huppatz
Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2020, Advance publication online, 16 January 2020
Summary: Gay, bisexual, and queer (GBQ) men experience significant rates of intimate partner violence (IPV) and sexual assault (SA); however, there is limited research into their attitudes and understandings of IPV and SA. This article presents the findings of a 2018 survey of 895 GBQ men currently residing in Australia, focused on their views and experiences of healthy and unhealthy relationships... Read more
Male adolescents' gender attitudes and violence: Implications for youth violence prevention
Elizabeth Miller, Alison J. Culyba, Taylor Paglisotti, Michael Massof, Qi Gao, Jane Kato-Wallace, Julie Pulerwitz, Dorothy L. Espelage, Kaleab Z. Abebe and Kelley A. Jones
American Journal of Preventive Medicine
, 2020, Advance publication online 27 December 2019
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his study analysed the associations among male adolescents' gender attitudes, intentions to intervene, witnessing peers' abusive behaviors, and multiple forms of adolescent violence perpetration. This community-based evaluation aims to inform future youth violence prevention efforts through the identification of potential predictors of interpersonal violence perpetration...Read more
A meta-analysis of childhood maltreatment and intimate partner violence perpetration
Sen Li, Fengqing Zhao and Guoliang Yu
Aggression and Violent Behavior, 2020, Advance online publication, 14 December 2019
Summary: This article aimed to report a meta-analysis of the relationship between childhood maltreatment (CM) and IPV perpetration, and explore the moderating effects of gender and marital status... Read more
Minority migrant men's attitudes toward female genital mutilation: Developing strategies to engage men
Tobias K. Axelsson and Sofia Strid
Health Care for Women International, 2019, Advance online publication, 20 November 2019
Summary: This article explores minority migrant men's attitudes towards female genital mutilation (FGM), and how these attitudes can be used to develop strategies to engage men in the eradication of FGM... Read more
Putting coercive control into practice: Problems and possibilities
Charlotte Barlow, Kelly Johnson, Sandra Walklate and Les Humphreys
The British Journal of Criminology
, 2020, 60(1): 160-179
Summary
: There is growing international interest in translating Stark's concept of coercive control into criminal justice policy and practice. In December 2015 an offence of coercive control was introduced in England and Wales. This paper offers an empirical investigation of the problems and possibilities associated with the translation of this offence into practice in one police force area in England...
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Shifting the lens: An implementation study of a community-based and social network intervention to gender-based violence
Mimi E. Kim
Violence Against Women
, 2020, Advance online publication, 13 January 2020
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Responding to the call to "shift the lens" and expand gender-based violence remedies beyond individualized direct services and law enforcement remedies, anti-violence providers have struggled to redefine and redirect intervention approaches... Read more
U.S. child custody outcomes in cases involving parental alienation and abuse allegations: What do the data show?
Joan S. Meier
Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 2020, Advance publication online, 7 January 2020
Summary: Family court and abuse professionals have long been polarized over the use of parental alienation claims to discredit a mother alleging the father has been abusive or is unsafe for the children. This paper reports the findings from an empirical study of ten years U.S. of cases involving abuse and alienation claims... Read more
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