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040 _aAFVC
100 _aStanley, Elizabeth
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245 _aPerforming ignorance of state violence in Aotearoa New Zealand
_cElizabeth Stanley, Zeni Gibson and India Craddock
260 _bSage,
_c2024
500 _aJournal of Criminology, 2024, First published, 15 May 2024
520 _aIn 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
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_aNew Zealand.
_bAbuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquiry
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_aADULT SURVIVORS OF CHILD ABUSE
650 4 _aEVIDENCE
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650 4 _aGOVERNMENT POLICY
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_aINSTITUTIONAL ABUSE
650 0 _aKĀWANATANGA
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650 0 _aMĀORI
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650 0 _aPĀRURENGA
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650 4 _aSOCIAL SERVICES
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650 4 _aTOKO I TE ORA
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650 4 _aTŪKINOTANGA
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651 _aNEW ZEALAND
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700 _aGibson, Zeni
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700 _aCraddock, India
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773 0 _tJournal of Criminology, 2024, First published, 15 May 2024
830 _aJournal of Criminology
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856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/26338076241252184
_zDOI: 10.1177/26338076241252184 (Open access)
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