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All things ethnic : comparing ethnicity in the official statistics of Canada and New Zealand
(2001)This thesis provides an historical comparison of the ethnic questions in the censuses of Canada and New Zealand. The comparison spans six census years, selected to provide the best examples of changes in the respective ... -
Ways of working with families where a parent has a psychiatric disability
(2001)Many people who are clients of adult mental health services are parents of dependent children yet little is known about what happens in clinical practice in relation to either them or their children. The purpose of this ... -
What is the best modality for treating sexual offenders?
(2009)This paper reviews the different treatment modalities used for treating sexual offenders. We provide an overview of the literature comparing group therapy with individual treatment and summarise the main advantages and ... -
A study on the anthology Za Ahan Jing (T101) centred on its languistic features, authorship and school affiliation
(2001)The Chinese Agamas currently receive much scholarly attention due to the possibility that they may be the only extant translations of recently found Indic manuscripts. The anthology Za Ahan Jing (Tl0l), dealt with in this ... -
Training correctional staff in the management of sexual offenders: Increasing knowledge and positive attitudes
(2012)Treatment will always rely, to some extent, on the positive support of non-therapy staff. Attitudes towards sex offenders, however, are usually negative. The aim of this study was to examine different correctional staff ... -
Preparing sex offenders for treatment: A preliminary evaluation of a preparatory programme
(2012)One of the emerging findings in offender rehabilitation is that treatment completion and therapeutic gains can be maximised under conditions where the participant is “ready” for psychotherapeutic intervention. This study ... -
How should "acceptance of responsibility" be addressed in sexual offending treatment programs?
(Elsevier BV, 2012)Sexual offenders in treatment programs are usually expected to take responsibility for their offending-which we define, on the basis of a literature review, as giving a detailed and precise disclosure of events which avoids ... -
Internet Sexual Offending: Overview of Potential Contributing Factors and Intervention Strategies
(Informa UK Limited, 2013)As Internet accessibility and use increase dramatically, more and more people are turning to it for sexual purposes. This growing use of the Internet for sexual purposes indicates that the proportion of Internet sexual ... -
The use of antilibidinal medications in the treatment of sexual offenders
(2010)Antilibidinal medications can be used to reduce a sexual offender’s deviant sexual fantasies and arousal. We briefly review what these medications are and what effects they have, how commonly they are used or should be ... -
An integrated groupwork methodology for working with sex offenders
(Informa UK Limited, 2009)There is now a considerable literature on the assessment and treatment of sexual offenders. There exists another substantial literature on therapeutic groupwork and its relevance to a range of clinical populations. These ... -
A review of the use of therapeutic communities with sexual offenders
(SAGE Publications, 2010)Sexual offender treatment programmes are often facilitated in secure settings such as prisons or psychiatric hospitals, which are not ideal environments for such treatment. Arguably, however, when these environments are ... -
Nuclear free : strategies used by the New Zealand anti-nuclear movement
(1993)In 1987 New Zealand's nuclear free legislation turned the country towards a more independent foreign and defense policy. It was also a major achievement for the New Zealand anti-nuclear movement. This study examines the ... -
Cognitive distortions in sex offenders: Should they all be treatment targets?
(2009)In this paper we consider two sets of so-called “cognitive distortions”: those that have been shown to be unrelated to reoffending (i.e., noncriminogenic factors) and those that have been demonstrated to predict recidivism ... -
Impact of Prison Climate on Sexual Offenders: Desistance and Rehabilitation
(Springer International Publishing, 2019)Prison social climate has been defined as the enduring social, emotional, organisational and physical characteristics of a prison as perceived by inmates and staff. Within this chapter we argue that a positive prison ... -
The Board of Directors, the budget and company oversight : a New Zealand case study
(2001)The corporate budget is one of the means by which boards of directors can exercise their governance, as it is a tool traditionally used in strategic planning and management. This thesis examines the role of the budget in ... -
The collective voice, where to now? : two depressions
(1995)This research compares the unemployed movements of two depressions, the 1930s and the 1980s and early 1990s. The research focused on Christchurch and Dunedin. The basic research question was whether the unemployed of these ... -
Perpetration of sexual abuse of children
(1992)This thesis has examined the general topic of child sexual abuse to identify the social characteristics of those who sexually abuse children. Three major perspectives have been identified, the historical perspective, the ... -
TDM in the workplace : the use of employer-based travel plans to modify employee travel behaviour in three Christchurch organisations
(2002)The purpose of this research was to investigate the implementation, development, monitoring and assessment of three travel plans in Christchurch to determine which type of travel plan measures were the most successful in ... -
Leibniz and the rationality of the infinite
(2001)Part 1 Historically the term 'infinite' has had two apparently contrary meanings. On the one hand, it was taken by metaphysicians like Plotinus to mean that which " ... has never known measure and stands outside number, ... -
Why soldiers rape : an integrative perspective
(2000)Sexual violence against women represents a horrifying social phenomenon that continues to pervade contemporary war environments. The subject of wartime rape has gained increasing academic prominence since the mass rapes ...