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When analysing risk and strategising safety in family violence, we have to explore all aspects of risk and barriers (internal and external) that restrict connection and engagement with services and support, and the possible reasons behind responses.

For a long time, I've been wanting to create a visual representation of the realities of the intentionality of coercive control. Unfortunately, coercive control is still actively mispositioned in practice response as an isolated, non-physical, often minimised dynamic, and as a direct result of this, lethality and risk indicators are missed

The Government is being urged to scrap “good character” discounts for child sex offenders at sentencing, amid mounting global criticism that it minimises the severity of the crime while compounding the trauma of its victims.

Trapped overseas: Why some parents can’t move home with their kids If you require information or support about the Hague Convention - please go to an Aotearoa New Zealand website - Hague Collective | Hague Convention New Zealand

Key Findings: In the year to June 2025, wāhine Māori made up 15 percent of women in Aotearoa New Zealand, yet they represent: - 44 percent of women who were proceeded against by Police - 49 percent of women who entered court - 66 percent of women who were remanded in custody - 71 percent of women who were sentenced to imprisonment.