TY  - SER
AU  - Towns, Alison
AU  - Scott,Hazel
TI  - Accountability, natural justice and safety: the Protection Order Pilot Study (POPS) of the Domestic Violence Act 1995
T2  - New Zealand Family Law Journal
SN  - 1746-8000
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Wellington
PB  - Lexis Nexis
KW  - FVC
KW  - CARE AND PROTECTION
KW  - DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
KW  - DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACT 1995
KW  - GENDER
KW  - INTERVENTION
KW  - JUSTICE
KW  - LEGISLATION
KW  - OFFENDERS
KW  - POLICY
KW  - PROTECTION ORDERS
KW  - SURVIVORS
KW  - VICTIMS
KW  - WOMEN
KW  - INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
KW  - PREVENTION
N1  - New Zealand Family Law Journal 5(7) 2006 : 157-168; nz
N2  - 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
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