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The Politics of Policing Family Violence in New Zealand: An Overview
(School of Psychology, Massey University,, 2012)
In 2012, the New Zealand Police introduced a new
Family Violence Policy to guide police response to
family violence occurrences including a new tool
for assessing situational risk factors. The Ontario
Domestic Assault ...
‘Wade in the Water …': Rethinking adoptees' stories of reunion
(Massey University, 2011)
In 1955, the Aotearoa/New Zealand government legislated the closed stranger adoption period. Approximately 80,000 children were constructed as a legal fiction when deemed as if born to a legally married couple. Birth family ...
Care as a Contemporary Paradox in a Global Market
(Massey University, 2011)
The contemporary mother faces difficult choices when
deciding whether to be either a ‘stay at home’ or a ‘working
mother’. Conflicting discourses of good and bad
mothering revolve around a political divide under ...
Stripping the Skin off Humour
(Massey University, 2011)
Culturally specific hegemonic processes produce authority
over meaning and exclude possibilities for authentic
ethical encounters. Contingent on a binary relationship
between ‘self’ and ‘other’, humour holds social ...
Problematising Effectiveness: The Inclusion of Victim Advocacy Services in Living Without Violence Programme Provision and Evaluation
(School of Psychology, Massey University, 2012)
Advocacy services in collaboration with living
without violence programmes have the potential to
increase experiences of safety and well-being for the
victims of domestic violence. However, advocacy
services are not ...
Wade in the Water: Awash in the Sense of Adoption
(School of Psychology, Massey University, 2012)
A discursive approach to knowledge contends that
language is the constitutive force of experience and
lived reality. Meaning is created through language
use within relationships, while discourses function
as the ...
Contemporary Masquerade: Work-Life Balance and Modern Tragedies of (Mis)Perceived/(Mis)Placed Social Agency
(School of Psychology, Massey University, 2012)
Within contemporary life, women struggle within
discourses of stay-at-home mothering and working
mother in terms of the detriment to a child’s
development. Although contemporary research
tends to isolate work-life ...
Globalisation: The Experience of Malay Adolescents with Conduct Problems
(School of Psychology, Massey University, 2012)
This paper attempts to explore the experiences
of Malay ado-lescents with conduct problems
within the Malaysian context of globalisation. It
is undeniable that to some extent globalisation
offers opportunities for a ...
Seeking the Voice of Experience: The Complexities of Researching Women’s Accounts of Their (Ex-) Partner’s Engagement with Living Free from Violence Programmes
(Massey University, 2011)
Previous research into the effectiveness and impact of
domestic violence programmes has often focused on recidivism
and re-offence data or self-report measures.
Such research is constrained by a reliance on incidences
of ...