"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