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The Electronic Ball and Chain? The Operation and Impact of Home Detention with Electronic Monitoring in New Zealand
In New Zealand, Amendment No. 9 (1999) of the Criminal Justice Act 1985 introduced Home Detention Orders as an early release from prison option, implemented on the 1st October 1999. The orders, with electronic monitoring,were ...
Probation Service Users: to empower or to exclude
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 ...
Parenting Adopted Children and Supporting Adoptive Parents: Messages from Research
This article considers adoption from the perspective of parents, especially the strategies that they employ to enhance attachments and build positive parent-child relationships. The article draws particularly on recent New ...
Community Treatment Orders for People with Serious Mental Illness: A New Zealand Study
New Zealand legislation allows for the involuntary outpatient treatment of people with serious mental illness. This study examines the views of service users, family members and mental health professionals (MHPs) about the ...
A Letter from New Zealand: Home Detention—emerging issues after the first three years
Home detention in New Zealand began on 1st October 1999, having developed from a political climate of punitiveness towards offenders and a desire to introduce tougher parole or post-imprisonment supervision regimes (Gibbs ...
Practitioner Evaluation
Practitioner evaluation: the idea that practitioners themselves undertake a systematic study of their own practice has been encouraged for a long time as an applied social work and health practice research strategy. It is ...
How patients in New Zealand view community treatment orders
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 ...
Alternatives to Custody in the New Zealand Criminal Justice System: Current Features and Future Prospects
Alternatives to custody in New Zealand have followed a format similar to criminal justice systems in the UK and other European countries but with a stronger emphasis on both punitive, work-based options like periodic ...
The Changing Nature and Context of Social Work Research
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, ...
Is Home Detention in New Zealand Disadvantaging Women and Children?
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 ...