TY - SER AU - Hayden, Anne TI - Safety issues associated with using restorative justice for intimate partner violence PY - 2012/// PB - Women's Studies Association of New Zealand, KW - DOMESTIC VIOLENCE KW - GENDER KW - OFFENDERS KW - RESTORATIVE JUSTICE KW - SAFETY KW - VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE KW - INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE KW - NEW ZEALAND N1 - Women's Studies Journal, 2012, 26(2): 4-16 N2 - Intimate partner violence (IPV) is renowned for its potential to harm and its under-reporting. A study in New Zealand explored non-reporting of IPV, and the extent to which using restorative justice (RJ) could increase reporting of this type of crime. Although the use of RJ for IPV is heavily debated, 79% of participants in my (2010) research considered that increased availability of RJ would increase reporting of IPV. It demonstrated the importance placed upon their relationship by victims and perpetrators, the complexity of power in IPV, and a range of ways IPV is reported. Like most literature on the subject, Safety was identified as a priority. In this article I examine the implications of gender and RJ, safety in terms of ways RJ would increase, decrease safety for victims, and ways the process coul d be made safer in IPV situations. (Author's abstract) Record #4026 UR - http://www.wsanz.org.nz/journal/docs/WSJNZ262Hayden4-16.pdf ER -