annotated bibliography of new zealand research into family violence

Topic Areas: Women, Perpetrators/offenders, Protection orders, Legislation, Gender, Policy,Social services, Prevention/intervention/treatmentAbstract: This thesis examines the impact of the Domestic Violence Act (1995) on Women’sRefuge. The research was based on feminist theory of male power and control over women.The author surveyed Women’s Refuge advocates about how the Domestic Violence Actimpacts on their Refuge work. The questions focused on the following six areas: the impacton their Refuge; protection orders; women’s programmes; children using Refuge services;stopping violence programmes for perpetrators; and general comments on the DomesticViolence Act.Advocates’ comments were analysed using cross-case analysis, and themes were generatedfrom the responses. These themes, along with the relevant literature, form the basis of theauthor’s recommendations. These include the need for: governmental funding of Women’sRefuge to reflect the magnitude of the services provided; programmes to be more culturallyappropriate and available in more rural areas; police to enforce protection orders and toprosecute when these are breached; ongoing public education about domestic violence witheducation beginning as early as primary school age; and entitlement of all women to legal aidwhen in need of protection.Jackson, S. M. (1998). Teenage dating violence. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University ofAuckland, New Zealand.See: www.nzfvc.org.nz/12936.pubTopic Areas: Intimate partner abuse, Physical abuse, Psychological/emotional abuse, Sexualabuse, Sexual assault/rape, AdolescentsAbstract: This thesis primarily investigates teenagers’ experiences of dating violence. Threestudies were undertaken with high school students, unified by the goal of informingprevention programmes in high schools. The first study used a questionnaire to gatherinformation from 373 students about their experiences of emotional, physical and/or sexualviolence across heterosexual dating, peer and family relationships. The two remaining studiesused discourse analytic approach to examine the talk of students. One study used 12 groupinterviews in which 101 students were invited to talk about their perceptions of datingrelationships and the violence that occurred within them. The other study involved analysis of24 individual interviews with girls, who had themselves been in relationships with boyfriendsthat involved violence. Although this thesis primarily investigates teenage dating violence,there is some attention paid to dating violence in relation to experiences of family violence.The purpose is to explore the possibility that people who experience violence in onerelationship might become victims of violence in other relationships. The author makes acorrelation between dating and family violence, and suggests that a strong case exists forsome targeted work with teenagers who have grown up witnessing violence.Source: Author’s abstractJackson, S. (1999). Unhappily ever after: Young women’s stories of abuse and violence inheterosexual love relationships. Paper presented at the World Millennium Conference onCritical Psychology, Auckland, New Zealand.See: www.nzfvc.org.nz/13267.pubTopic Areas: Intimate partner abuse, Physical abuse, Psychological/emotional abuse, Sexualabuse, Women, Adolescents, Cultural factors, GenderAbstract: This conference paper discusses popular culture’s effect on young girls’ notions of88