Resource material
Repeal 59 Campaign Material |
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| Publications | |
| Unreasonable Force - New Zealand's Journey Towards Banning the Physical Punishment of Children | PDF (2.2 MBytes) |
| New Zealand - 4 years post the law change | PDF (81 KBytes) |
| Media kit | PDF (1.4MBytes) |
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Submissions to Select Committee |
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| EPOCH Guidelines for making a submission on s59 Crimes Act 1961 - October 2005 | PDF (574Kbytes) |
| ACYA 2006 | PDF (42 KBytes) |
| Barnados 2006 | PDF (158 KBytes) |
| EPOCH NZ 2006 | PDF (191 KBytes) |
| Institute of Public Policy AUT 2006 | PDF (76 KBytes) |
| Paediatric Society 2006 | PDF (61 KBytes) |
| Peter Newell 2006 | PDF (86 KBytes) |
| RNZ Plunket Society Inc 2006 | PDF (180KBytes) |
| Save the Children 2006 | PDF (70 KBytes) |
| UNICEF NZ 2006 | PDF (217 KBytes) |
| Law Commission Advice to Select Committee 8 November 2006 | |
| 10th Australasian Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect 16 February 2006 | PDF (1559KBytes) |
| Communications to MPs | |
| EPOCH NZ Letter to MPs Oct 2006 | PDF (18 KBytes) |
| Briefing Sheet 1 January 2007 | PDF (43 KBytes) |
| Briefing Sheet 2 January 2007 | PDF (52 KBytes) |
| Briefing Sheet 3 February 2007 | PDF (54 KBytes) |
| Briefing Sheet 4 March 2007 | PDF (56 KBytes) |
| Briefing Sheet 5 March 2007 | PDF (50 KBytes) |
| Briefing Sheet 6 May 2007 | PDF (50 KBytes) |
| General | |
| Speech to Conference Barcelona Dr Penelope Leach 1997 | PDF (342KBytes) |
| Parenting for Peace Parent Education Workshop Keynote Speaker Peter Newell1999 | PDF (1MB) |
| The Fall and Fall of Corporal Punishment c2000 | PDF (300KBytes) |
| Agencies in support of the Bill | PDF (474Kbytes) |
| Agencies opposed to the Bill | PDF (27 KBytes) |
| Christian Leaders Supportive of Sue Bradford's Bill 2 May 2007 | PDF (4MBytes) |
| EPOCH Submission to Min of Justice, Min of Social Services, and Min of Youth Affairs Sept 2001 | PDF (200KBytes) |
| EPOCH NZ Action Plan 2001 | PDF (161KBytes) |
| Response from Swedish academics on misrepresentation of effect of Swedish ban on corporal punishment c2006 | PDF (23 KBytes) |
| Statement by New Zealand Anglican Bishops May 2007 | |
| EPOCH Paper: "Physical Punishment of Children and the Child Discipline Law" c2010 | PDF (290KBytes) |
| "Physical punishment of children in New Zealand – six years after law reform" Beth Wood 2013 | PDF (445KBytes) |
| Documents associated with law reform | |
| The original Bill | PDF (109KBytes) |
| Select Committee Report | PDF (78KBytes) |
| Bill as reported back from Select Committee | PDF (34KBytes) |
| Bill as reported back after Committee Stage | PDF (236KBytes) |
| Chester Borrows proposed amendment | PDF (195 KBytes) |
| Judy Turner Proposed amendment | PDF (118 KBytes) |
| David Benson-Pope’s Amendment | PDF (101 KBytes) |
| Peter Dunne’s Amendment | PDF (100 KBytes) |
| Substituted S59 in the Crimes Act 1961 | PDF (75 KBytes) |
| Leaflet on the effect of law change No 1 (2 pages) | PDF (78 KBytes) |
| Leaflet on effect of law change No 2 (1 Page) | PDF (80 KBytes) |
| International Documents | |
| UN Committee on the Rights of the Child | (External website) |
| UNICEF Innocenti report | (External website) |
| Statement of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the launch of the Global Initiative April 2001 | (PDF 78KBytes) |
| Media items | |
| Murray Edridge April 2006 | PDF (11KBytes) |
| Barnados re Waitakere City 2006 | PDF (29KBytes) |
| Letter to NZ Herald May 2007 - Dr Ian Hassall | PDF (3KBytes) |
| Letter to NZ Herald April 2007 - Dr Ian Hassall | PDF (3KBytes) |
| Advert commentary 2007 | PDF (17KBytes) |
| Publications related to s59 | |
| List of Useful References 2007 | PDF (6KBytes) |
| Research | |
| “The Impact of A TV programme on attitudes to physical punishment” Beth Wood and Sue Buckley | PDF (37KBytes) |
| "Physical punishment in the home in New Zealand" Dr Gabrielle Maxwell, Sept 1993 | Weblink to abstract |
| "A violence-free family environment -views of parents who don't smack" Marie Russell and Beth Wood c2001 | PDF (40KBytes) |
| "The Effects of Sweden's Ban on Physical Punishment" Goran Hakansson, May 2004 | PDF (442 KBytes) |
| "Just who do we think children are?" Debski, Russell and Buckley April 2009 | Weblink |
| "Attitudes to physical punishment are changing" Amanda D'Souza, Marie Russell, Beth Wood, Louise Signal, Dawn Elder 2016 | Weblink |
| 2009 Review of New Zealand Police and Child, Youth and Family Policies and Procedures relating to the Crimes (Substituted Section 59) Amendment Act | Weblink |
| 2009 Monitoring Report | Weblink |
| Papers and opinion pieces | |
| "Violence Breeds Violence: the case against smacking children" Penelope Leach and Peter Newell, 1989 | PDF (735KBytes) |
| "What's wrong with hitting children?" Penelope Leach, c1991 | PDF (235Kbytes) |
| "Physical Punishment of Children: Where are we at in New Zealand?" Beth Wood, Marie Russell and Mandy Smith, 1998 | PDF (588KBytes) |
| "The first decade" Conference Proceedings 1999 | Weblink |
| "Hitting Children -s59 Crimes Act and child protection" - Robert Ludbrook, c2000 | PDF (628KBytes) |
| "Ending Physical Punishment of Children" Beth Wood, 2000 | PDF (184KBytes) |
| "The Role of the Professional in changing attitudes about physical punishment of children" Beth Wood 2000 | PDF (71KB) |
| Beth Wood and Terry Dobbs, 2003 | PDF (54KBytes) |
| Beth Wood and Robert Ludbrook, 2003 | PDF (1.4MBytes) |
| John Hancock 2004 | PDF (101KBytes) |
| “What does God think about hitting children” Glynn Cardy 2005 | PDF (20KBytes) |
| Dr Ian Hassall May 2006 | PDF (8KBytes) |
| Dr Emma Davies 2006 | PDF (12KBytes) |
| Beth Wood and Peter Newell 2006 | PDF (47KBytes) |
| Dr Ian Hassall May 2007 | PDF (12KBytes) |
| Dr Ian Hassall Nov 2007 | PDF (10KBytes) |
| Dr Ian Hassall April 2007 | PDF (5KBytes) |
| Terry Dobbs May 2007 | PDF (9KBytes) |
| "The rise and fall of s59 Crimes Act" Beth Wood and Ian Hassall, 2007 | PDF (681 KBytes) |
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Physical punishment of children: effects and evolution |
PDF (178KBytes) |
| Letter to the Editor from Epoch | PDF (300KBytes) |
| "Violence free childhoods" Beth Wood, 2016 | PDF (300KBytes) |
| Children's Rights to Safety - Robert Ludbrook and Beth Wood | PDF (1.30MBytes) |
| Media Kit | PDF (113KB) |
| Referendum Briefing Sheet No 1 | PDF (75KB) |
| Sue Bradford's Valedictory Speech | Weblink |
| "Children are Unbeatable - 7 Very good reasons not to hit children" by Rhonda Pritchard | Weblink |
| "Physical Punishment of Children in Aotearoa New Zealand in 2021" Beth Wood, 2021 | PDF (197KBytes) |
NZ 4 years post law change