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One and the Same? An Exploration into Two Common Ideological Motivations for Lone-Actor Terror Attacks in the West Between 2010-2017

Fitzgerald, Tylah (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Islamic extremism (IE) and right-wing extremism (RWE) are the two most common ideological motivations for perpetrating lone-actor terrorism in the West. This study explored the similarities and differences of these ideologies ...
The Ordering of Medical Things: Medical Practices and Complexity

Gardner, John (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

This project is an investigation into medicine in action. The aim is to understand how medical interactions generate order via the diagnosis of disease; how the patient, the body, and illness are made intelligible, and how ...
An Organisational Study of the Free Kindergarten and Playcentre Movements in New Zealand

Meade, Anne Elizabeth (Victoria University of Wellington, 1978)

The free kindergarten and playcentre organisations were subjects of case studies for an examination of strategic choice processes in voluntary organisations, using an open-systems theoretical framework. The patterns of ...
Patching up the differences: An exploration into Whanganui gang identity

Sayles, Feona (Victoria University of Wellington, 2021)

The District Council (Prohibition of Gang Insignia) Act 2009 (‘Gang Insignia Act 2009’) came into force in 2009 and prohibited the ‘display’ of ‘gang insignia’ within ‘specified areas’ of the Whanganui District. The purported ...
Perceptions of procedural justice and police legitimacy: A life history perspective

Dorgan, Jody (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

Prior research on attitudes towards the police has largely focused on the relationship between demographic factors and perceptions of the police. These studies have produced inconclusive results, and there is no general ...
A Place to Call My Own: Navigating Life in the Margins

Foster, Jonathan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

This thesis explores the lives of people who are, or have recently been, living on the streets in Wellington City. It examines what it means to ‘be and belong’ while living on the streets, the ways in which Streeties become ...
Playing the Game and Pulling the Fingers: Working for and against the modern University

Guthrie, O.D. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

Todays’ universities are constantly evolving, and yet they are deeply traditional institutions that bring together often contradictory agendas, with multiple roles and expectations for those working within. I look towards ...
Pleasure, pain and pornography: A gendered analysis of the influence of contemporary pornography on the lives of New Zealand emerging adults

Keene, Samantha Maree (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Historically, concerns have been raised about violence in pornography and the influence that such portrayals may have on levels of violence against women and children. Today, pornography is pervasively available on the ...
Police Sexual Violence File Analysis Report. Women, Rape and the Police Investigation Process

Jordan, Jan; Mossman, Elaine (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

This study involves a systematic analysis of 110 police files resulting from reported sexual violation offences for three months of the calendar year of 2015, drawn from five selected Police Districts. The analysis was ...
Policing Sexual Violence: Key Informants’ Report. Women, Rape and the Police Investigation Process

Jordan, Jan (Victoria University of WellingtonVictoria University of WellingtonVictoria University of Wellington, 2019)

A review of a sample of Police rape files from 2015 (Jordan & Mossman, 2019) was recently undertaken to compare the findings with an earlier 1997 study (Jordan, 2004). The review aimed to assess how the Police investigation ...
The Politics, Poetics and Performance of Sacred Space: The Sacred Space of Cook Islands Christian Churches

Kecskemeti, Maria (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

The current literature about sacred space suggests that it is produced through either substantive definitions of space (the poetics of space) or situational definitions of space (the politics of space). I conducted ...
A Post-Environmental Discourse: Rhetoric, Science and Legitimacy in Environmental News Coverage of Lake Winnipeg, Canada

Hill, Garrity (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

In post-environmental news discourse, environmentalism is reduced to a rhetorical motif that is relayed by all sides of the political debate, including the environmental opposition. The phase of post-environmentalism in ...
Postwar Women 1945-1960 and Their Daughters 1970-1985: an Analysis of Continuity, Contradiction, and Change in Two Generations of Pakeha Women as Mothers, Wives, and Workers

May, Helen (Victoria University of Wellington, 1988)

The period of this study covers two generations of New Zealand social history and traces the context of life for two groups of Pakeha women during their childrearing years. It is not a compare and contrast exercise as the ...
The Power of Penal Populism: Public Influences on Penal and Sentencing Policy from 1999 to 2008

Bartlett, Tess (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

This thesis explains the rise and power of penal populism in contemporary New Zealand society. It argues that the rise of penal populism can be attributed to social, economic and political changes that have taken place in ...
Premature Personhoods In A Neonatal Intensive Care Unit In Aotearoa New Zealand

Poppelwell, Zoe (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) provides medical care for some of the most unwell newborns, including those born premature. Infants born prior to 28 completed weeks gestation, classified as extremely premature, ...
Prioritising Medicines, Negotiating Lives: An Anthropological Inquiry of Pharmaceutical Access in New Zealand

Adams, Veronica (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

Pharmaceuticals have become synonymous with ideas of health and wellbeing. The consumption of pharmaceuticals has become the gateway to restoring, maintaining, or improving one’s health; in turn becoming deeply entrenched ...
Prisoners’ Rights and Media Wrongs: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Media Representation of Private Prisons in New Zealand

Boyle, Otis (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

In 2009, the Corrections (Contract Management of Prisons) Amendment Bill was passed, implementing the New Zealand (NZ) Government’s policy of prison privatisation. Subsequently, ‘Mt Eden’, a public prison previously managed ...
Problematics of Applying Indigenous Oral History to Politico-Racial Reconciliation in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Bonisch-Brednich, Brigitte; Hill, Richard (Victoria University of Wellington, 2004)

New Zealand is a country of four million people some 2000 kilometres east of Australia. It is internationally renowned for a number of things that reflect national mythology, such as landscape, flora and fauna, sporting ...
Property of Corrections: The Experience of Incarceration for Female Inmates in a New Zealand Prison

Richards, Michelle A. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

This thesis examines what it means to be an inmate as experienced by female inmates serving sentences at Christchurch Women’s Prison. Using an auto-ethnographic methodology, combined with a mixed-methods approach, 82 female ...
A Punitive But Non-Punitive Society: An Explanation Of The Specificity Of Penal Populism In South Korea

Lee, Hun Young (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

It is argued in existing Korean criminological literature that penal populism has strongly influenced the criminal justice system over the last two decades in South Korea (‘SK’, hereafter). Their contention is based on the ...