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New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse

Your national centre for family and whānau violence research and information Nicola Paton, Manager/Community Lead

The rationale … that access to high-quality information is critical in ensuring family violence prevention and intervention strategies are effective and achieve the greatest possible success.

• Based at the

University of Auckland

• Funded by the

Social Policy Evaluation & Research Unit (Superu), formerly the Families Commission

Ways of making knowledge accessible

• Website
• Newsletter ǀ Pānui
• News and Events Alerts
• Data Summaries
• Issues Papers
• Selected Bibliographies
• Seminars/conferences
• Lending library
• Literature searches
• Timeline of family violence

responses from 1867

• Responding to queries
• Community engagement
• Social media
• Statistics
• Community engagement
• Information for:
• Policy makers
• Practitioners
• Researchers
• Funders
• Students
• Media
• People affected by violence
• The general public

Website

Family violence statistics

Family violence data by ethnicity – ‘Asian’ communities

New Zealand Violence Against Women study (2003)

Fanslow, J., Robinson, E., Crengle, S., & Perese, L. (2010). Juxtaposing beliefs and reality: Prevalence rates of intimate partner violence and attitudes to violence and gender roles reported by New Zealand

• women. Violence Against Women, 16(7), 812-31.
• 11% of Asian women reported having experienced intimate partner violence

in their lifetime

Youth 2000 series

• Youth ‘07 report on Chinese, Indian and other Asian students

https://library.nzfvc.org.nz/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber= 5142

• 13% of Asian youth reported witnessing an adult hitting or physically hurting another

adult in their home in the last 12 months

• 19% of Asian youth reported witnessing an adult hitting or physically hurting a child in

their home in the last 12 months

Family violence data by ethnicity – ‘Asian’ communities

Towards freedom from violence: New Zealand family violence statistics disaggregated by ethnicity. (Paulin, J., & Edgar, N. Office of Ethnic Affairs, 2013). https://library.nzfvc.org.nz/cgi-bin/koha/opac- detail.pl?biblionumber= 4291

Family violence statistics

Family violence statistics

• Administrative data (govt agencies & NGOs)
• Tell us how many people using services
• Limitations and gaps
• Undercount: e.g. < 20% of family violence is reported to Police
• Some communities higher levels policing
• Dependent on reporting and recording practices
• Cannot be used for trends
• Administrative data and ethnicity
• Consistency (categories; one or more)
• Reliability (how determine ethnicity?)
• Completeness (many ‘unknown’)

Family violence statistics

The 2016 Data Summaries show:

• In 2015, there were 110,114 family violence investigations by NZ Police
• In 2015, NZ Police recorded 6 homicides by an intimate partner
• In 2015, NZ Police recorded 10 homicides of children and young people

under 20 by a family member

• In 2015, 5,264 applications were made for protection orders:
• 4,857 (89%) were made by women and 513 (9%) by men
• 4,774 (89%) of respondents were men and 543 (10%) women.
• In 2015, there were 7,406 recorded male assaults female victimisations

and 4,629 proceedings against offenders for breaching a protection

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https://nzfvc.org.nz/data-summaries

Family violence data by ethnicity – ‘Asian’ communities

12% of New Zealand population identify with one or more Asian ethnicity

(NZ Census 2013) http://www.stats.govt.nz/Census/2013-census/profile-and-summary- reports/infographic-culture-identity.aspx

Description 05/06 06/07 07/08 08/09 09/10 10/11 11/12 12/13 13/14 14/15 Number of women accessing safe house services 2,281 1,920 1,832 1,930 3,885 women and children 1,635 2,273 2,940 women and children 2,794 women and children 2,852 women and children Ethnicity of women using refuge services Pākehā 33% 37% 38% 33% 32% 43% 31% 42% 40% 41% Māori 48% 43% 47% 45% 45% 47% 50% 40% 42% 42% Pasifika 4% 6% 5% 6% 6% 6% 6% 6% 7% 6% European 4% 5% 6% 7% 7% N/A 9% 7% N/A 6% Asian 1% 2% 2% 2% 2% 3% 2% 3% 3% 3% Other/ Unknown 5% 7% 6% 7% 7% 1% 2% 2% 8% 2%

Women using services: National Collective of Independent Women’s Refuges

Source: NCIWR Annual Reports, https://nzfvc.org.nz/data-summaries/violence-against-women

Family violence data by ethnicity – ‘Asian’ communities

Description 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 TOTAL NUMBER OF RESPONDENTS 4,474 4,582 4,498 4,728 4,877 4,506 4,334 4,676 5,171 5,346 Ethnicity of respondents / associated respondents named in Protection Order applications European % of total 2,012 45% 2,033 44% 2,052 46% 2,051 43% 2,100 43% 1,669 37% 1,559 6% 1,636 5% 1,784 35% 1,760 33% Māori % of total 1,115 25% 1,135 25% 1,025 23% 1,100 23% 1,165 24% 1,052 23% 853 20% 878 19% 922 18% 975 18% Pacific % of total 286 6% 328 7% 301 7% 371 8% 305 6% 273 6% 228 6% 251 5% 248 5% 275 5% Asian % of total 183 4% 219 5% 269 6% 257 5% 252 5% 238 5% 217 5% 251 5% 280 5% 288 5% Other % of total 49 1% 58 1% 62 1% 55 1% 45 1% 34 1% 44 1% 45 1% 42 1% 62 1% Unknown % of total 829 19% 809 18% 789 18% 894 19% 1,010 21% 1,240 28% 1,433 33% 1,615 35% 1,895 37% 1,986 37%

Respondents/associated respondents in Protection Order applications - by ethnicity

Source: Ministry of Justice, https://nzfvc.org.nz/data-summaries/violence-against-women

Family violence data by ethnicity – ‘Asian’ communities

European Māori Pacific Island Asian Indian Other Not stated / inadequately described TOTAL Number of unique victims 3378 4341 1128 249 231 150 1002 10,467 Percentage

• f total

victims 32% 41% 11% 3% 2% 1% 10% 100%

Unique victims of assaults by family members, partners, ex-partners, 2015 – by ethnicity, NZ Police

Source: Recorded crime victim statistics, http://www.stats.govt.nz/tools_and_services/nzdotstat/tables-by-subject/recorded-crime- victims.aspx

Family violence data by ethnicity – ‘Asian’ communities

European Māori Pacific Island Asian Indian Other Not stated / inadequately described TOTAL Number of unique

• ffenders

3639 4983 1470 246 330 219 168 11,055 Percentage

• f total
• ffenders

33% 45% 13% 2% 3% 2% 2% 100%

Unique offenders in acts intended to cause injury against family members, partners, ex-partners, 2015 – by ethnicity, NZ Police

Source: Recorded crime offender statistics, http://www.stats.govt.nz/tools_and_services/nzdotstat/tables-by-subject/recorded-crime-

• ffenders.aspx

Family violence data by ethnicity – ‘Asian’ communities

Lower rates of violence and/or just lower reporting? For support: Shakti 0800 SHAKTI (0800 742 584) http://shakti-international.org/shakti-nz/ Family Violence Information Line 0800 456 450 http://www.areyouok.org.nz/i-need-help/

Take home messages

• Subscribe to NZFVC mailing lists

https://nzfvc.org.nz/content/join-our-mailing-lists

• Make use of the service
• Let others know about NZFVC

(especially new staff)

New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse Reception, Level 2 School of Population Health Gate 1, Tāmaki Innovation Campus 261 Morrin Rd, Glen Innes Auckland 1072 (09) 923 5873 info@nzfvc.org.nz nzfvc.org.nz