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This booklet may be helpful if a partner, ex-partner, family, whanau member or someone else close to you is controlling, threatening, hurting or harming you.
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This booklet may be helpful if a partner, ex-partner, family, whanau member or someone else close to you is controlling, threatening, hurting or harming you.
The concept of family violence as a form of entrapment with three layers originated from Ptacek, J., Battered Women in the Courtroom: The Power of Judicial Responses, Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1999.
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Ensure your workplace is safe and supportive for employees experiencing domestic violence. Updated January 2026, now simplified and step-by-step.
Additional resource with practical ideas to support an employee experiencing domestic violence, Download the DVFREE Workplace Safety and Wellbeing Tool.