Accountability, natural justice and safety : the Protection Order Pilot Study (POPS) of the Domestic Violence Act 1995
Towns, Alison
Accountability, natural justice and safety : the Protection Order Pilot Study (POPS) of the Domestic Violence Act 1995 Towns, Alison; Scott, Hazel - Wellington Lexis Nexis 2006 - New Zealand Family Law Journal .
New Zealand Family Law Journal 5(7) 2006 : 157-168
This article provides findings from a research project investigating concerns around the way the Domestic Violence Act (1995) is being implemented, in particular, the difficulty victims experience in obtaining temporary protection orders and legal protection from psychological abuse. The researchers utilise justice statistics and a discourse analysis of interviews with 10 informants working in the area of family violence, including court staff, police, and community workers. They discuss two key themes drawn from the interviews: perpetrator accountability, and human rights issues. Perpetrators of violence are not always being held to account for their violence, particularly due to the failure to follow-up perpetrators' non-attendance at mandated stopping violence programmes, and police not prosecuting other breaches of protection orders. Furthermore, the researchers assert that due to many reasons (including costs, variability of decisions made by judges, and inadequate court resourcing), legal protection from domestic violence is now less accessible to female victims. A focus on men's right to natural justice (their right to answer allegations made against them) means that women's human rights to safety and protection are being violated.
nz
1746-8000
CARE AND PROTECTION
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACT 1995
GENDER
INTERVENTION
JUSTICE
LEGISLATION
OFFENDERS
POLICY
PROTECTION ORDERS
SURVIVORS
VICTIMS
WOMEN
INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
PREVENTION
Accountability, natural justice and safety : the Protection Order Pilot Study (POPS) of the Domestic Violence Act 1995 Towns, Alison; Scott, Hazel - Wellington Lexis Nexis 2006 - New Zealand Family Law Journal .
New Zealand Family Law Journal 5(7) 2006 : 157-168
This article provides findings from a research project investigating concerns around the way the Domestic Violence Act (1995) is being implemented, in particular, the difficulty victims experience in obtaining temporary protection orders and legal protection from psychological abuse. The researchers utilise justice statistics and a discourse analysis of interviews with 10 informants working in the area of family violence, including court staff, police, and community workers. They discuss two key themes drawn from the interviews: perpetrator accountability, and human rights issues. Perpetrators of violence are not always being held to account for their violence, particularly due to the failure to follow-up perpetrators' non-attendance at mandated stopping violence programmes, and police not prosecuting other breaches of protection orders. Furthermore, the researchers assert that due to many reasons (including costs, variability of decisions made by judges, and inadequate court resourcing), legal protection from domestic violence is now less accessible to female victims. A focus on men's right to natural justice (their right to answer allegations made against them) means that women's human rights to safety and protection are being violated.
nz
1746-8000
CARE AND PROTECTION
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACT 1995
GENDER
INTERVENTION
JUSTICE
LEGISLATION
OFFENDERS
POLICY
PROTECTION ORDERS
SURVIVORS
VICTIMS
WOMEN
INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
PREVENTION