"The issue of missing victim-informed assessments matters because it’s symptomatic of a wider problem. For decades, the underlying assumption of both the public and the judicial system has been straightforward and seemingly logical: that stopping-violence programmes stop violence.

But how is that measured? And what if the system has been asking the wrong people for proof?"

#NZPol #FamilyViolence #Aotearoa

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360991911/24m-illusion-programmes-meant-stop-family-violence

A woman reported to police a man’s past & likely further violent actions toward children & was recorded as ‘vexatious’. When the man then assaulted a child the first suspect was the mother. Reporting on the child’s death focused on two villains: child protection services & the mother.

It’s so much easier to blame a woman for the actions of a violent man. ‘Look what she made him do’, ‘she could have prevented it’, etc etc.

Should be shocking. Is too familiar.

#BlameWomen #ViolentMan #DoBetter #ChildProtection #FamilyViolence #policing #queensland

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/15/broken-trust-children-domestic-family-violence-mason-lee-toddler-punched-died-police-ignored-repeated-warnings-killer-ntwnfb?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Loss - the belief in progress and the reality of experiences of loss.

* Grievance-fuelled violence at home and psychological harm reduction

"The family violence workforce is stretched in Western societies... 20 out of 38 reviewed cases of fatal family violence were "grievance-fuelled"...The Fixated Grievance Perpetrator Intervention Pilot brings together experts in forensic psychology and psychiatry, criminology, policing, perpetrator intervention and victim support."

World-first trial testing whether counterterrorism strategies can prevent domestic homicide >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-25/dv-new-trial-terrorism-domestic-violence-grievance-homicide/106658162
#violence #FamilyViolence #grievance #loss #ressentiment #precarity #masculinity #entitlement #resentment #anger #GenderBasedViolence #homicide #DV #terror #CrisisOfReproduction #crimes #HarmReduction #therapists #psychologisation

* The role of loss within society
Andreas Reckwitz 's book 'Loss, A Modern Predicament, The first comprehensive study of the role of loss within society", 2025 explains loss not only from a psychological perspective, but also from a sociological one.

"Loss has come to occupy a central position in late modernity – whether in the consequences of climate change or the entrenchment of negative expectations about the future, the ‘losers’ of post-industrial modernisation or the collective processing of ‘historical wounds’ and of who is acknowledged as the victims and perpetrators of these crimes, in a heightened psychological awareness of vulnerability, in political populism, a nostalgia for things past, or programmes of resilience."

"Loss is the bread and butter of populism." >>
https://res.cloudinary.com/suhrkamp/images/q_auto/v1742134247/151338/loss_9783518588222_sample_translation.pdf
#loss #progress #ProgressNarrative #improvement #credibility #modernity #stagnation #precariousness #experience #inequality #StatusAnxiety #SocialHierarchy #CollectiveExperiencesOfLoss #populism #nostalgia #socioanalysis #ClimateDisasters #PolyCrisis #WesternModernity #future #book

Unsheltered in the wide open spaces

Unhoused in Australia: "‘A sobering indictment’: 14 homeless people die a year in public parks or countryside in Australia, analysis finds:"

"Between 2010 and 2020, 54 rough sleepers died in public parks, the analysis shows. Eighty-five homeless Australians died in countryside areas – including in bushland, desert, beaches and riverbanks – in the same period...It is a sobering indictment of societal abandonment and systemic failure." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/09/homeless-people-deaths-per-year-australia-ntwnfb

The human right to adequate housing. Housing is a right, not a commodity
https://www.ohchr.org/en/special-procedures/sr-housing/human-right-adequate-housing
#housing #precariousness #abandonment #HomelessnessCrisis #AffordableHousing #PublicHousing #privatisation #DecadesOfNeglect #HumanRights #homelessness #Unhoused #FamilyViolence #SettlerSociety #commodity #rentierism

Context Warning:
Abuse, Murder, Stalking

https://www.change.org/p/royal-commission-into-the-killing-of-australian-women-and-girls/u/34380769?

Femicide Watch Australia
https://australianfemicidewatch.org/

#coerciveControl #domesticViolence #FamilyViolence #Femicide

Saskatchewan RCMP saw almost 10K domestic violence victims in 2025

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://globalnews.ca/news/11733407/saskatchewan-family-intimate-partner-violence-2025/