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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 • Responding to queries • Website • Community engagement • Newsletter ǀ Pānui • Social media • News and Events Alerts • Statistics • Data Summaries • Community engagement • Issues Papers • Information for: • Selected Bibliographies - Policy makers • Seminars/conferences - Practitioners • Lending library - Researchers • Literature searches - Funders • Timeline of family violence - Students responses from 1867 - Media - People affected by violence - The general public

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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 order. 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 Women using services: National Collective of Independent Women’s Refuges Source: NCIWR Annual Reports, https://nzfvc.org.nz/data-summaries/violence-against-women Description 05/06 06/07 07/08 08/09 09/10 10/11 11/12 12/13 13/14 14/15 2,794 2,852 Number of 3,885 2,940 women women women women women accessing safe 2,281 1,920 1,832 1,930 1,635 2,273 and and and and house services children children children children Ethnicity of Pākehā 33% 37% 38% 33% 32% 43% 31% 42% 40% 41% women using Māori 48% 43% 47% 45% 45% 47% 50% 40% 42% 42% refuge services 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/ 5% 7% 6% 7% 7% 1% 2% 2% 8% 2% Unknown

Family violence data by ethnicity – ‘Asian’ communities Respondents/associated respondents in Protection Order applications - by ethnicity Source: Ministry of Justice, https://nzfvc.org.nz/data-summaries/violence-against-women 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 European 2,012 2,033 2,052 2,051 2,100 1,669 1,559 1,636 1,784 1,760 % of total 45% 44% 46% 43% 43% 37% 6% 5% 35% 33% Māori 1,115 1,135 1,025 1,100 1,165 1,052 853 878 922 975 Ethnicity of % of total 25% 25% 23% 23% 24% 23% 20% 19% 18% 18% respondents Pacific 286 328 301 371 305 273 228 251 248 275 / associated % of total 6% 7% 7% 8% 6% 6% 6% 5% 5% 5% respondents Asian 183 219 269 257 252 238 217 251 280 288 named in % of total 4% 5% 6% 5% 5% 5% 5% 5% 5% 5% Protection Order Other 49 58 62 55 45 34 44 45 42 62 applications % of total 1% 1% 1% 1% 1% 1% 1% 1% 1% 1% Unknown 829 809 789 894 1,010 1,240 1,433 1,615 1,895 1,986 % of total 19% 18% 18% 19% 21% 28% 33% 35% 37% 37%

Family violence data by ethnicity – ‘Asian’ communities 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 European Māori Pacific Asian Indian Other Not stated / TOTAL Island inadequately described Number of 3378 4341 1128 249 231 150 1002 10,467 unique victims Percentage 32% 41% 11% 3% 2% 1% 10% 100% of total victims

Family violence data by ethnicity – ‘Asian’ communities 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- offenders.aspx European Māori Pacific Asian Indian Other Not stated / TOTAL Island inadequately described Number of 3639 4983 1470 330 168 unique 246 219 11,055 offenders Percentage 33% 45% 13% 2% 3% 2% 2% 100% of total offenders

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)

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