The Probation Service has shifted from its roots in social work and the use of benevolent care and control activities towards a corrections focused agency, charged with the task of reducing re-offending and protecting the ...

Supervised contact centres, where a child may maintain contact with a parent (mother or father) in a safe and supervised environment, have been available in New Zealand since the early 1990s. This article explores the ...

This article reviews the use of home detention with electronic monitoring in New Zealand, drawing on research undertaken in 2001. The discussion considers the impact of home detention on women who are subject to this ...

Social work research, emphasising the use of rigorous, scientific and evidence-based approaches, has a tendency to exclude the subjects or participants of research, from either acting in co-researcher capacity, or from ...

The following piece describes the findings of a Masters project in social work, undertaken in New Zealand, which looked at women's experience of crime and their perceptions of various interventions from the criminal justice ...

Social work research is constantly diversifying and expanding and this article explores its changing nature; including changes to epistemology and practice; and the critical influence of the wider economic, political, ...

A major challenge for higher education academics is to research and publish when faced with substantial teaching responsibilities, higher student numbers, and higher output expectations. The focus of this piece is to ...

Anita Gibbs and Russell Beal combine practice and academic insights to evaluate the recently implemented Straight Thinking Programme in New Zealand. They examine a range of issues, including the cultural appropriateness ...

Background: New Zealand operates a well-embedded community treatment order scheme for patients with serious mental disorders. A similar scheme may be enacted for England and Wales. Aim: To explore the views of patients ...

In 2007, my husband and I adopted two boys from Russia as New Zealand citizens. We complied with all the detailed legal requirements of New Zealand adoption policy and law, as well as with Russian intercountry adoption ...