Story: Victims of crime

More links and websites

• Ministry of Justice

  The Ministry of Justice website has information for victims.

• Women’s Refuge

  Women’s Refuge provides shelter for women and children who are victims of violence.

• Sensible Sentencing Trust

  The Trust campaigns for community support for longer sentences for some crimes.

• Crime and justice

  Statistics New Zealand provides reports on crime in New Zealand.

• Victim Support

  Victim Support is a community organisation that helps people hurt by crime and other trauma.

More suggestions and sources

• Harvey, Alexis, and Mary Moon. ‘National Collective of Rape Crisis and Related Groups of Aotearoa 1986’ in Women together: a history of women’s organisations in New Zealand (ed. Anne Else). Wellington: Historical Branch, Dept of Internal Affairs and Daphne Brasell, 1993.

• McCallum, Toni. ‘National Collective of Independent Women’s Refuges 1981’ in Women together: a history of women’s organisations in New Zealand (ed. Anne Else). Wellington: Historical Branch, Dept of Internal Affairs and Daphne Brasell, 1993.

• Understanding victimisation risk: findings from the New Zealand crime and safety survey 2006 in an international context. Wellington: Ministry of Justice, 2009.

• Victim Support. A commitment to victims’ rights: the way forward. Wellington: Victim Support, 2005.