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We Are a Family: Legal Issues for Lesbian and Gay Parented Families In New Zealand
This article summarises research commissioned by the New Zealand Families Commission to gain a better understanding and awareness of the legal position of gay parented families and donor parents compared to heteronormative families. The research and discussion raise issues about the limits and parameters of legal parenthood rights, responsibilities and liabilities and draws some analogies with English law in this respect
Knowledge and Know-how: the Role of Self-Defence in the Prevention of Violence Against Women
This study, commissioned by the European Parliament Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs upon request by the FEMM Committee, examined research on the effectiveness of self-defence and its place in policies at EU and Member State levels. It concludes that there is a growing evidence base that feminist self-defence can be effective in preventing violence. Whilst references to self-defence are present in the EU and Council of Europe policy documents, they are not substantial and yet to be developed into a coherent approach. Self-defence should be considered a promising practice and be better promoted and supported. More space should be made for it in policy, financing and research
Domestic homicide review (DHR) : case analysis
Crime statistics for England and Wales (Flatley, 2016) show that 332 women and 78 men were killed by their partners/ex-partners between March 2012 and March 2015 – the time period within which the domestic violence homicides analysed in this report took place. In the same time period, 35 women and 46 men were killed by a son/daughter or other family member (see appendix one for details).
Since the implementation of Section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act (2004) in 2011, Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHRs) have been a statutory requirement. Local areas are expected to undertake a multi-agency review after a domestic homicide to identify lessons learned and help prevent future incidents. In order to ensure that DHRs effectively draw out relevant learning, the Home Office has established a Quality Assurance process. A Panel of experts from across the statutory and voluntary sectors reviews each report and provides feedback to local areas. Since April 2011, over 300 reviews have been examined by the Quality Assurance Panel.
There has been increasing interest in understanding the national picture on domestic homicide from the information contained within these individual reviews. In November 2013, the Home Office published a Lessons Learned (Home Office, 2013) document drawing out common themes from the first 54 cases reviewed by the Panel. However, many partners expressed the view that, although useful, the themes presented within the Home Office document provided limited insights (HMIC, 2014). Neville and Sanders-McDonagh, (2014: 56) describe the document as an ‘inadequate response to the complex findings that have emerged from DHR reports across the country’.
In recognition of this, the charity Standing Together Against Domestic Violence (STADV) commissioned the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit (CWASU) at London Metropolitan University to undertake an analysis of 32 Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHRs) chaired by its associates (see appendix two for details of the STADV DHR Process). The aim of the analysis was to identify and explore in more depth the themes emerging from the STADV sample, thereby contributing learning to the national picture
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Social Security Units of Assessment: an International Survey of the UK, Netherlands, Republic of Ireland and Australia and its Implications for UK Policy Reform
This report examines social security units of assessment (UoAs) and considers the issues involved in moving towards an individualised system of social security. We consider in some detail issues of what kinds of UoAs matter, when, for whom, and why, together with the possibilities for beneficial reform in the UK. Its remit is confined to the social security and emergent tax credit systems for working-age people. It examines the experience of the UK in the light of the policy legacies and issues arising in the context of Ireland, the Netherlands and Australia. The issue of aggregation for state-provided social protection – be it through the tax or social security systems - remains an unresolved issue that must be addressed as part of any gender equality strategy
Structure and compositional trends in alkali-metal containing titanium and vanadium oxide chalcogenides and the new van der Waals phase Ti2Te2O
We report the solid-state synthesis of all eighteen layered oxide chalcogenides in the structural family 22O
(A = K/Rb/Cs; M = Ti/V; Q = S/Se/Te), allowing the determination of trends in composition and reactivity
within the series. All materials are isostructural, crystallising in the primitive tetragonal space group 4∕ as
reported previously for five compounds in the series. The titanium or vanadium ions have intermediate valency
on a single crystallographic site, leading to temperature-independent paramagnetism and correlated electronic
behaviour which is influenced by the compositional variation. Furthermore, the alkali metal ions in KTi2Te2O
and RbTi2Te2O can be removed by oxidative deintercalation using H2O at room temperature to produce a new
metastable van der Waals layered phase, Ti2Te2O. During the deintercalation reaction the oxide chalcogenide
layers undergo a relative shift by (0.5, 0.5) in the plane such that Ti2Te2O is body-centered with space group
4∕
Optical Synthesis of Terahertz and Millimeter-Wave Frequencies with Discrete Mode Diode Lasers
It is shown that optical synthesis of terahertz and millimeter-wave
frequencies can be achieved using two-mode and mode-locked discrete mode diode
lasers. These edge-emitting devices incorporate a spatially varying refractive
index profile which is designed according to the spectral output desired of the
laser. We first demonstrate a device which supports two primary modes
simultaneously with high spectral purity. In this case sinusoidal modulation of
the optical intensity at terahertz frequencies can be obtained. Cross
saturation of the material gain in quantum well lasers prevents simultaneous
lasing of two modes with spacings in the millimeter-wave region. We show
finally that by mode-locking of devices that are designed to support a minimal
set of four primary modes, we obtain a sinusoidal modulation of the optical
intensity in this frequency region.Comment: 6 page
Finding the costs of freedom : how women and children rebuild their lives after domestic violence
Whilst crisis interventions for women and children experiencing domestic violence are well developed, little is known about the process of rebuilding lives, including what longer term support needs might be. Women’s organisations have lacked the resources to follow up service users. The Research Grants Programme run by the Big Lottery provided an exciting opportunity to do just that. Working in partnership with the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit (CWASU) at London Metropolitan University, Solace Women’s Aid successfully applied for funds that enabled us to track 100 women and their children over a three year period (2011-2014). Women were recruited into the study after exiting a range of domestic violence services provided by Solace and, through four waves of interviews, we followed their onward journeys.
The overarching aims of the project were to identify:
• What factors support long term settlement, how do they interrelate and at what points in the process are they particularly important?
• When do obstacles to resettlement occur and how can they be overcome?
• How can community resources best be developed and integrated for long term support of survivor resettlement and independence?
Through a multi-layered research methodology we explored how women and children are able to grow their ‘space for action’ (Kelly, 2003) after physically removing themselves from the ‘coercive control’ (Stark, 2007) exerted by the perpetrator over their everyday lives. We also measured post-separation abuse in Wave Three, experience of services and the legal system, changes in housing situation and how their informal networks facilitated or interfered with efforts to create safety and freedom
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