TY  - SER
AU  - Busch, Ruth
AU  - Robertson,Neville R.
TI  - Innovative approaches to child custody and domestic violence in New Zealand: the effects of law reform on the discourses of battering
SN  - 0789007851
PY  - 2000///
CY  - New York
PB  - Haworth Maltreatment & Trauma Press
KW  - FVC
KW  - CARE AND PROTECTION
KW  - DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
KW  - INTERVENTION
KW  - INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
KW  - OFFENDERS
KW  - PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE
KW  - TREATMENT
KW  - VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
KW  - PREVENTION
KW  - CHILD ABUSE
KW  - NEW ZEALAND
N1  - Has been co-published simultaneously in the Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma 3(1), 2000.; In R. A. Geffner, P. G. Jaffe & M. Sudermann (Eds.). Children exposed to domestic violence : current issues in research, intervention, prevention, and policy development : p. 269-299; nz
N2  - This chapter examines the efficacy of law reforms to provide better protection for women and children from domestic violence. It looks at disputes around child custody and the issue of violence. Judicial discourses of domestic violence are explored, with particular reference to the Domestic Violence Act (1995) and the associated amendments to the Guardianship Act (1968). Improvements in relation to the law reforms are noted. The authors argue that despite these improvements, there is still a persistence of some old discourses that trivialise violence towards women, seeing them as provocative and unworthy of protection. It is concluded that an intersectoral approach is needed to end domestic violence towards women and children
ER  -