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On the Case of Youth: Case Files, Case Studies, and the Social Construction of Adolescence
Case files and case studies occupy a significant place in histories of mental illness, sexuality, and "delinquency," and historians have considered the ways case files and case studies construct subjective categories and ...
Understanding the energy consumption choices and coping mechanisms of fuel poor households in New Zealand
One in four households in New Zealand are fuel poor. A growing body of evidence links the technical and economic aspects of this phenomenon, however comparatively little research has focused on the wider social impacts. ...
Sensation and the Making of New Zealand Adolescence
Many historians associate adolescent pleasures and subcultures with the mid-twentieth century. Sensations and their personifications, this article suggests, also formed a focus for commentary and experience during the ...
The Conduct Requirement in the Law of Attempt: A New Zealand Perspective
The law of attempt draws a line between non-criminal preparatory conduct and conduct that is sufficiently close to the substantive offence to attract criminal liability. To assist with the line-drawing exercise, the New ...
‘Walking between worlds’: the experiences of New Zealand Māori cross-cultural adoptees
In New Zealand between 1955 and 1985 over 45,000 closed stranger adoptions took place. The Adoption Act 1955 promoted the closed adoption of many Indigenous Māori children into Pākehā (white European) families. Such adoptions ...
Coping with Compulsion: Women's Views of Being on a Community Treatment Order
An interview-based study of 42 people with serious mental illness was undertaken in New Zealand during the early 2000s. Of the 42 people, 10 were women. The women were either currently on a Community Treatment Order or had ...
International Research Evidence on Relocation: Past, Present, and Future
The modern world is characterized by an increasingly mobile population as family members transfer or relocate nationally and internationally to pursue new career or lifestyle opportunities. It is, of course, not uncommon ...
The ethics of predictive risk modelling in the Aotearoa/New Zealand child welfare context: Child abuse prevention or neo-liberal tool?
The White Paper on Vulnerable Children before the Aotearoa/New Zealand parliament proposes changes that will significantly reconstruct the child welfare systems in this country, including the use of a predictive risk model ...
‘It's About People and Their Environment’: Student Social Workers' Definitions of Social Work Research
This article considers constructions of social work research from the perspectives of student social workers in New Zealand. There have been many academic discussions of the unique epistemology that can be called social ...
Pathways to parenting in New Zealand: issues in law, policy and practice
In New Zealand there are many ways to become a parent, including two-parent families of heterosexual and homosexual couples, single parents, adoptive parents, kin carers, whāngai arrangements, long-term fostering, guardianship ...