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Location, Location, Location? Comparing Release Plan Quality, Community Experience, and Recidivism Rate of High-Risk Offenders Released to a Fresh Start or Returning to the Devil They Know

Robson, Sarah (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

When offenders are released from prison, does it matter where they go? To answer this question, this study investigated the effects of residential relocation on 282 high-risk male offenders released from New Zealand prisons. ...
Location of Active Faults using Geomorphic Indices in Eroded Landscapes, South Taranaki, New Zealand

Ries, William Francis (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

South Taranaki region has a number of active faults that show surface expression in the younger and harder materials near the coast and central volcanoes of the North Island, but these traces finish abruptly inland when ...
Logic of Appropriateness or Logic of Consequence? Competing Explanations for the OECD Campaign against Tax Havens

Wood, Melinda (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

This thesis provides an alternative explanation to existing constructivist accounts of the OECD campaign against tax havens. It reinterprets the OECD project through a neoliberal institutionalist lens and offers a different ...
Loneliness, connectivity, and place in New Zealand

Smith, Rebekah (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

Loneliness is widespread – 31 percent of New Zealanders reported being lonely a little, some, most, or all of the time in 2012, which equates to approximately 1.3 million New Zealanders. Loneliness is firstly an individual ...
A Longitudinal Investigation of the Impact of Operational Deployment on the Psychological Wellbeing of New Zealand Defence Force Service Personnel

Morrison, Kelsey Laura (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

The deleterious impact of combat on psychological wellbeing has been documented as early as 490 B.C. by Greek historians (Bentley, 2005), and researchers continue to delve into this phenomenon today. Published literature ...
A Longitudinal Investigation of the Sociocultural Adaptation of Brazilian Students in New Zealand

Williamson, Jessica (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

Global mobility means increasing numbers of individuals are exposed to potentially stressful experiences in their cross-cultural transition. A process of cultural learning is required to overcome differences between host ...
The Long-term Impacts of Hunting on Population Viability of Wild Ungulates in Tarangire, Northern Tanzania

Rija, Alfan Abeid (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

Hunting through illegal and legal means is increasingly recognised as a threat to the sustainability of wildlife populations in reserves throughout Africa. Despite this, in Tanzania, legal hunting has persisted and serves ...
Look at her: Analysing the depiction of women on the covers of women's magazines from 1975-2015

Beaumont, Sophie (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

Women’s magazines have a role in constructing and defining what it means to be a woman. Deciphering messages in mediums specifically designed for women is therefore key to understanding what women may be learning about ...
Looking at the Works of Alice Tawhai: An Argument for Māori Literary Nationalism

Holland, Charlie (Natasha) (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

Contemporary Māori writer Alice Tawhai has published two collections of short stories, Festival of Miracles (2005) and Luminous (2007). Tawhai's narratives portray Māori people living an array of diverse lifestyles and her ...
Looking Up from Down Under: New Zealand’s best options amid China’s rise and the U.S. foreign policy rebalance to the Asia-Pacific

Friesen, Ryan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

With the rise of China and the United States (US) foreign policy rebalance to the Asia-Pacific meeting in international space, small states like New Zealand have decisions to make about how to manage their balancing act ...
Loose Credit and Low Wages: A Re-examination of US Postwar Economic History in Light of the Recent Recession

Jones, Richard Henry (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

The protracted nature of the current global economic downturn, beginning in late 2007 with the crash of the US credit markets and continuing on into today, suggests that a wider range of policy responses are now required ...
Loose Space Lexicon: Design Tactics for Facilitating Appropriation in Urban Gaps

Bangs, Matthew (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

Wellington has an underlying network of ‘leftover’ (Cupers and Miessen) spaces awaiting activation. Their potential is masked by the deterministic view cast upon them by the wider architectural discipline. However, there ...
Loss of Genetic Diversity with Captive Breeding and Re-Introduction: A Case Study on Pateke/Brown Teal (Anas chlorotis)

Bowker-Wright, Gemma (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

Pateke/brown teal (Anas chlorotis) have experienced a severe population crash leaving only two remnant wild populations (at Great Barrier Island and Mimiwhangata, Northland). Recovery attempts over the last 35 years have ...
The Lost, Erased, Unseen and Forgotten: Translating into Architecture the New Zealand Wars

Shaw, Geordie (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

There is a perception amongst New Zealanders that our country was forged at Waitangi in 1840 with a shaking of hands and pressing together of noses. However, in actuality it emerged from a drawn out war of fear and ...
Lost in Transition: Designing for Refugee Integration in New Zealand

Ab Latif, Fathila Mardeyah (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

Political unrest and internal conflict over recent years had forcefully displaced millions of people. As a result, the developed countries of the world are pressured to take in more refugees and New Zealand is included in ...
Lost in translation: a comparative analysis of developing regions' receptions of the responsibility to protect norm

Gnoth, Aidan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

The way in which different regions are receiving the international norm of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) has been attracting increasing attention within academia in recent years, most notably after the NATO led ...
The Loudspeaker: Transformative and Tactile Aspects of the Object

Wright, Jason (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

Traditionally the loudspeaker has been viewed as a functional object. Whilst also serving as a design artifact and object of consumer fetishism, it is subject to the overriding purpose of the reproduction and replication ...
#LoveRugbyRespectWomen: An exploratory study of women's interactions with New Zealand rugby culture in the night-time economy

Courtney, Genevieve (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Following recent high-profile allegations of gender-based violence perpetrated by professional rugby players in contexts involving alcohol in New Zealand, concerns regarding the safety of women in the context of New Zealand ...
Low Correlation Codes for Sonar Systems

Pratap, Rajiv (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

Sonar is a vital technology for the detection of objects in the water. Sonarsystems have been redefined over many decades, but research is still beingconducted into optimal detection methods. Codes, and the filters ...
The Low Frequency Electrical Properties of Sea Ice

Buchanan, Sean Thomas (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

This thesis summarises an experimental and theoretical study of the low frequency electrical properties of sea ice. The aim of the research was to first demonstrate, and then gain a physical understanding of, ...