Reports
Family violence indicators : can administrative data sets be used to measure trends in family violence in New Zealand?
Pauline Gulliver and Janet Fanslow, New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse. Wellington, N.Z. : SuPERU, a division of the Families Commission, 2013
Research report, no. 3/13, December 2013
Report - 96 p.
Summary: This report is concerned with assessing the suitability of national administrative data sets to provide outcome indicators to measure trends in the frequency of family violence events in the community... Read more
Evaluating problem-solving courts in New Zealand : a synopsis report
prepared by Alice Mills, Katey Thorn, Claire Meehan and Marilyn Chetty. Auckland, N.Z. : Centre for Mental Health Research, University of Auckland, 2013
Report - (39 p.); PDF
Summary: Court innovations, such as problem-solving courts, have been developed to assist in addressing the psychosocial causes of offending. These courts seek to improve the psychosocial wellbeing of those whose maladaptive behaviour brings them to court in the first place... Read more
Family violence courts : a review of the literature
prepared by Alice Mills, Katey Thorn, Claire Meehan and Marilyn Chetty. Auckland, N.Z. : Centre for Mental Health Research, University of Auckland, 2013
Report - (33 p.); PDF
Summary: This review focuses on the existing evaluation research on specialist family courts that has taken place primarily in Commonwealth jurisdictions and, to a lesser extent, the United States. The review begins with a brief overview of the development of family violence courts... Read more
Putting people first : a review of Disability Support Services performance and quality management processes for purchased provider services
written and compiled by Karen Van Eden. Prepared for Hon. Minister Ryall, Minister of Health. Wellington, N.Z. : Ministry of Health, 2013
Report - (44 p.); PDF, Word DOC available
Summary: This independent review looks at the effectiveness of the current disability support services performance and quality management processes for residential disability providers...Read more
Women and alcohol in Aotearoa/New Zealand | Te waipiro me ngā wāhine i Aotearoa : report
Jenny Rankine with Amanda Gregory, Anna Tonks and Te Pora Thompson-Evans. Auckland, N.Z. : Alcohol Healthwatch and Women's Health Action, 2013
Report - (200 p.); PDF
Summary: This is the full report of the Women and alcohol/Te waipiro me ngā wāhine project. The shorter Policy Briefing Paper is also available... Read more
Journal articles
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Child protection and out of home care : policy, practice, and research connections Australia and New Zealand
Elizabeth Fernandez and Nicola Atwool. Elsevier, 2013
Psychosocial Intervention, 2013, 22 (3):175-184
Summary: This article provides an outline of the early development of care and protection in Australia and New Zealand as a backdrop to an overview of child protection systems and policies and the current child protection profile in both countries...
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Empowerment and advocacy for domestic violence victims
Mandy Morgan and Leigh Coombes. Wiley, 2013
Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2013, 7(8): 526-536
Summary: In this paper, the authors consider a proposed theory of empowerment and recommendations of advocacy practices by Kasturirangan (2008) to consider how her conceptualisation of empowerment processes has influenced the field... Read more
'I could only work every second Sunday' : the role of separated fathers in the labour market participation of separated mothers when they're in dispute over care and contact arrangements
Vivienne Elizabeth, Julia Tolmie, Nicola Gavey.
Women's Studies Association of New Zealand, 2013
Women's Studies Journal, 2013, 27(2): 2-13
Summary: Drawing on international literature on the division of caring labour, and a small-scale qualitative study with separated mothers from New Zealand in dispute over care and contact arrangements, this paper investigates the claims... Read more
Recognition of burns as a marker of child abuse in the paediatric emergency department [Letter]
Aisling R. Geoghegan. NZMA, 2013
New Zealand Medical Journal, 2013, 125(1382): 129-131
Summary: This letter reports the results of a retrospective audit performed in the Emergency Department of Waikato Hospital. This audit led to the introduction of a scald assessment triage tool and increased education sessions... Read more
Community reintegration of sex offenders of children in New Zealand
Gemma Russell, Fred Seymour, Ian Lambie. Sage, 2013
International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 2013, 57(1): 55-70
Summary: This study explored child sex offenders' expectations for and experiences of reintegration into the community... Read more
Community solutions for the community's problem : an evaluation of three New Zealand community-based treatment progams for child sexual offenders
Ian Lambie and Malcolm W. Stewart. Sage, 2012
International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 2012, 56(7): 1022-1036
Summary: The recidivism rate of 203 offenders who attended community-based child sexual abuse treatment programmes was assessed and compared with a probation comparison group...Read more
Narrative research on child sexual abuse : addressing perennial problems in quantitative research
Kerry Gibson and Mandy Morgan. Taylor & Francis, 2013
Qualitative Research in Psychology, 2013, 10(3): 298-317
Summary: This article based on a retrospective, narrative study of 29 adult participants who had spent their childhood in a New Zealand commune in which child sexual abuse was known to have occurred, to explore four key methodological issues in the field of child sexual abuse research...
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Transitioning youth with sexually harmful behaviour back into the community
Ian Lambie and Mnthali Price. Routledge 2013
Journal of Sexual Aggression, 2013, online first
Summary: The current study aimed to examine the transitioning experiences of adolescents with sexually harmful behaviour following treatment and to explore whether additional services are needed to facilitate their successful transition into the community...Read more
International
Reports
Bullying surveillance among youths : uniform definitions for public health and recommended data elements. Version 1.0
compiled by R. Matthew Gladden, Alana M. Vivolo-Kantor, Merle E. Hamburger, Corey D. Lumpkin. Atlanta, GA. :
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Washington, DC : Department of Education, 2014
Report - (116 p.); PDF
Summary: This publication is designed as a tool to help organisations, researchers, evaluators, community groups, educators, and public health officials define and gather systematic data on bullying to better inform research and prevention efforts... Read more
Domestic violence and abuse : summary and recommendations
This report was written for the Early Intervention Foundation by Jonathon Guy, with editing by Leon Feinstein and Ann Griffiths. London : Early Intervention Foundation, 2014
Report - (17 p.); PDF
Summary: This report assesses the effectiveness of existing services aimed at prevention of domestic violence and abuse (DV&A) and considers whether the broader suite of Early Intervention services can be effective in addressing DV&A... Read more
Misperceptions about child sex offenders
Kelly Richards. Canberra, ACT : Australian Institute of Criminology, 2011
Short paper - (8 p.); PDF; HTML available
Summary: This paper addresses five common misperceptions about the perpetrators of sexual offences against children. Specifically, the issues addressed include whether all child sex offenders are 'paedophiles', who sexually abuse children... Read more
Profiling parental child sex abuse
Jane Goodman-Delahunty. Canberra, ACT : Australian Institute of Criminology, 2014
Short paper - (8 p.); PDF; HTML available
Summary: Public policy initiatives to redress parental child sexual offenders have been hindered by the absence of an offending profile that characterises this core group of intrafamilial offenders... Read more
Reporting violence to the police : a survey of victims attending domestic violence services
Emma Birdsey, Lucy Snowball. Sydney : NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, 2013
Short paper - (9 p.); PDF
Crime and Justice Statistics Bureau Brief, no.91, October 2013
Summary: The aim of the study was to investigate what proportion of domestic violence (DV) victims who seek help from DV services choose not to report the violence to police and to investigate factors and reasons associated with non-reporting... Read more
Service responses to survivors of sexual violence : perspectives of National Health Service and voluntary sector professionals on inter-agency working with survivors
Sarah M. Bishop.
Thesis submitted for the Degree of PhD at the University of Warwick, 2013
PhD Thesis (150 p.); PDF
Summary: The first chapter of this thesis critically reviews the existing literature on Restorative Justice (RJ) for crimes of sexual violence. It considers whether RJ has a contribution to make to the psychological wellbeing of survivors... Read more
Journal articles
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Associations between intimate partner violence and termination of pregnancy : a systematic review and meta-analysis
Megan Hall, Lucy C. Chappell, Bethany L. Parnell, Paul T. Seed and Susan Bewley. PLOS Medicine, 2014
PLoS Medicine, 2014, 11(1): e1001581
Summary: The authors of this systematic review and meta-analysis conclude that intimate partner violence is associated with termination of pregnancy... Read more
The effects of intimate partner violence before, during, and after pregnancy in nurse visited first time mothers
Philip V. Scribano, Jack Stevens, Elly Kaizar. Springer, 2013
Maternal and Child Health Journal, 2013, 17(2): 307-318
Summary: The authors aimed to determine the prevalence of intimate partner violence before, during and after pregnancy in a national (US) sample of women enrolled in the Nurse Family Partnership (NFP); and, to determine correlates of IPV exposure....Read more
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Illuminating findings on the impact of adequate social support on IPV and pregnancy outcomes
Pauline Gulliver. Academy on Violence & Abuse, 2014
Short paper - (3 p.); PDF
AVA Research Review, Volume IV, February 2014
This is a review the article previous article... Read more
Intimate partner violence and pregnancy : a systematic review of interventions
An-Sofie Van Parys, Annelien Verhamme, Marleen Temmerman and Hans Verstraelen. PLOS, 2014
PLOS One, 2014, online
Summary: The objective of this systematic review is to provide a clear overview of the existing evidence on effectiveness of interventions for IPV around the time of pregnancy... Read more
Australian domestic violence protection order legislation : a comparative quantitative content analysis of victim safety provisions
Samantha Jeffries, Christine E.W. Bond, Rachael Field. Informit, 2013
Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 2013, 25(2): 627-643
Summary: This paper assesses the victim safety focus of domestic violence protection order legislation in each Australian state and territory. The analysis shows that the Northern Territory, South Australia and Victoria 'stand out' from the other jurisdictions... Read more
Bullying perpetration and subsequent sexual violence perpetration among middle school students
Dorothy L. Espelage, Kathleen C. Basile, Merle E. Hamburger. Elsevier, 2012
Journal of Adolescent Health, 2012, 50(1): 60-65
Summary: This study published by the University of Illinois and CDC, attempted to examine the link between bullying and sexual violence acts among middle school students aged between 10 and 15... Read more
A comparison of empirically based and structured professional judgment estimation of risk using the structured assessment of violence risk in youth
Kristina Childs, Paul J. Frick, John S. Ryals, Annika Lingonblad, Matthew J. Villio. Sage, 2014
Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, 2014, 12(1): 40-57
Summary: This study builds on a long-standing debate focusing on whether structured professional judgment (SPJ) or empirically based methods of risk estimation are more valid and reliable measures of future behavior by comparing three different measures of risk... Read more
Conducting child custody evaluations in the context of family violence allegations : practical techniques and suggestions for ethical practice
Robert Geffner, Lisa Conradi, Kari Geis, M. Brenda Aranda. Taylor & Francis, 2009
Journal of Child Custody, 2009, 6(3-4): 189-218
Summary: A review of the literature...and the daily practice of conducting child custody evaluations has revealed that there is an inadequacy assessing and incorporating family violence issues,.. Published in a Special Issue of the Journal of Child Custody: Domestic violence in Child Custody...
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Rethinking child custody evaluation in cases of domestic violence
Evan Stark. Taylor & Francis, 2009
Journal of Child Custody, 2009, 6(3-4): 287-321
Summary: This article was prompted by the publication of "Assessing Allegations of Domestic Violence," by Gould, Martindale and Eidman (2007). It critically reviews the [US] family court response to domestic violence cases... Published in a Special Issue of the Journal of Child Custody: Domestic violence in Child Custody... Read more
The Danger Assessment : validation of a lethality assessment instrument for intimate partner femicide
Jacquelyn C. Campbell, Daniel W. Webster, Nancy Glass. Sage 2008
Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2008, 24(4): 653-674
Summary: This article describes the development, psychometric validation, and suggestions for use of the Danger Assessment (DA) instrument. There are a number of other articles on risk assessment in this issue of the Journal of Interpersonal Violence... Read more
Predicting potentially life-threatening partner violence by women toward men : a preliminary analysis
Denise A. Hines and Emily M. Douglas. Springer, 2013
Victims and Violence, 2013, 28(5): 751-771
Summary: The US-based authors investigated predictors of potentially life-threatening partner violence by women toward men in a sample of 302 men who sustained partner violence and sought help... Read more
Domestic/family violence death reviews : an international comparison
Lyndal Bugeja, Myrna Dawson, Sara-Jane McIntyre, Carolyn Walsh. Sage, 2013
Trauma, Violence and Abuse, 2014, epub
Summary: The review identified 71 jurisdictions where D/FVDRs had been established in the past two decades, 25 of which met the inclusion criteria for this study... Read more
Economic empowerment of impoverished IPV survivors : a review of best practice literature and implications for policy
Sur Ah Hahn and Judy L. Postmus. Sage, 2013
Violence, Trauma and Abuse, 2013, online first
Summary: This article outlines the best practices literature that addresses IPV in the lives of impoverished women, as well as the literature that specifically examines the interventions to economically empower IPV survivors-whether impoverished or not... Read more
Fatherhood and intimate partner violence : bringing the parenting role into intervention strategies
Carla Smith Stover and Dorothy Morgos. American Psychological Association, 2013
Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 2013, 44(4): 247-256
Summary: This article provides (a) a rationale for considering father-child intervention in the context of IPV, (b) specific strategies for assessment, (c) guidelines for determining if a father is appropriate for such intervention... Read more
'Fighting' for survival : a systematic review of physically violent behavior perpetrated and experienced by homeless young people
Jessica A. Heerde, Sheryl A. Hemphill, Kirsty A. Scholes-Balog. Elsevier, 2014
Aggression and Violent Behavior, 2014, 19(1): 50 - 66
Summary: A systematic review of youth homelessness and physically violent behaviors...
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How to form alliances with families and communities : the provision of informal supports to families keeps kids safe
Jill D. McLeigh. Elsevier, 2013
Child Abuse & Neglect, 2013, 37(suppl.): 17 - 28
Summary: This article focuses on the use of informal support as an integral part of the work of all professionals who seek to prevent harm to children and to remediate its effects when it occurs. This article provides examples...
This article is published in a special supplement of Child Abuse & Neglect, titled "Beyond Formal Systems of Care: Broadening the Resources for Child Protection"...
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Listen to the children : kids' impressions of Who Do You Tell (TM)
Leslie M. Tutty. Routledge, 2014
Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2014, 23:17-37
Summary: This article presents the results of qualitative research with 116 students (51 boys and 65 girls) ranging from age 6 to 12 who had participated in the Who Do You Tell child sexual abuse education programme... Read more
Motivational and cognitive predictors of the propensity to intervene against intimate partner violence
Helen Alfredsson. Sage, 2013
Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2013, epub
Summary: This article reports the findings of a community-based survey conducted in Sweden... Read more
Neighborhood environment and intimate partner violence : a systematic review
Kirsten Beyer, Anne Baber Wallis, L. Kevin Hamburger. Sage, 2013
Trauma, Violence and Abuse, 2013, epub
Summary: The authors undertook a comprehensive, systematic review of the literature to date on the relationship between neighborhood environment and intimate partner violence (IPV), asking, "what is the status of scholarship related to the association between neighborhood environment and IPV occurrence?... Read more
Outcomes of short course interprofessional training in domestic violence and child protection
Eszter Szilassy, John Carpenter, Demi Patsios, Simon Hackett. Sage, 2014
Violence Against Women, 2014, epub
Summary: This study evaluates the outcomes of short interagency and interprofessional training in domestic abuse. Participants' attitudes and knowledge were assessed... Read more
Pain and somatic symptoms are sequelae of sexual assault : results of a prospective longitudinal study
J.C. Ulirsch, et al. Wiley, 2013
European Journal of Pain, 2013, online first
Summary: According to the authors, this is the first prospective longitudinal study focusing on pain in sexual assault survivors.... Read more
Partner violence and substance abuse are intertwined : women's perceptions of violence-substance connections
Rebecca J. Macy, Connie Renz and Emily Pelino. Sage, 2013
Violence Against Women, 2013, 19(7): 881-902
Summary: This exploratory, qualitative study investigates these two issues among a sample of 15 women in substance abuse treatment who experienced partner violence...
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The RESTORE program of restorative justice for sex crimes : vision, process and outcomes Mary P. Koss. Sage, 2014
Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2014, epub
Summary: The article reports an evaluation of RESTORE, a restorative justice conferencing programme offered in Arizona, adapted to prosecutor-referred adult misdemeanor and felony sexual assaults... Read more
Rural masculinities and the internalisation of violence in agricultural communities
Kerry Carrington, Alison McIntosh, Russell Hogg, John Scott. Ohio State University, 2013
International Journal of Rural Criminology, 2013, 2(1): 3-24
Summary: This article is based on research the authors conducted in two agricultural communities as part of a broader study that included mining communities in rural Australia... Read more
Social work and adverse childhood experiences research : implications for practice and health policy
Heather Larkin, Vincent J. Felitti & Robert F. Anda. Informa, 2014
Social Work in Public Health, 2014, 29(1): 1-16
Summary: This article applies a biopsychosocial perspective, with an emphasis on mind-body coping processes to demonstrate that social work responses to adverse childhood experiences may contribute to improvement in overall health.... Read more
