TY  - SER
AU  - Stanley, Elizabeth
AU  - Gibson, Zeni
AU  - Craddock, India
TI  - Performing ignorance of state violence in Aotearoa New Zealand
PY  - 2024///
PB  - Sage
KW  - New Zealand.
KW  - Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquiry
KW  - ADULT SURVIVORS OF CHILD ABUSE
KW  - EVIDENCE
KW  - GOVERNMENT POLICY
KW  - INSTITUTIONAL ABUSE
KW  - KĀWANATANGA
KW  - MĀORI
KW  - PĀRURENGA
KW  - SOCIAL SERVICES
KW  - TOKO I TE ORA
KW  - TŪKINOTANGA
KW  - NEW ZEALAND
N1  - Journal of Criminology, 2024, First published, 15 May 2024
N2  - In 2019, the New Zealand government established a Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care to investigate the abuse and neglect of children, young people and vulnerable adults in Aotearoa/New Zealand between 1950 and 1999. The public hearings, witness statements and interim reports have charted horrific violence by state and faith-based workers including torture, sexual assaults, serious physical violence, and layers of neglect and discrimination. Māori have been especially targeted as victims of abuse and harms. This article considers the multiple layers of ignorance-making from state representatives. It shows how state agencies have navigated Commission hearings through 10 strategies that demonstrate some acknowledgement of their offending and trauma-making while simultaneously minimising their responsibility and resecuring their institutional legitimacy as protectors of the vulnerable and saviours of Te Tiriti (the Treaty of Waitangi), ethics and integrity. This careful performance stands at odds with the ongoing layers of violence and harms in state care. (Authors' abstract). Record #9035
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1177/26338076241252184
ER  -