Health and Environmental Sciences
We are inviting people to participate in a study that aims to understand how different forms of intimate partner violence expert testimony and judges' family violence directions impact jurors' assessments of whether women victim-survivors charged with killing male abusive partners were acting reasonably in self-defence.
Your participation will involve completing a 20-minute online questionnaire about intimate partner violence and attending a half-day mock trial held at the AUT City Campus. Parking at the AUT City Campus will be paid for. A $50 koha will be provided in recognition of your participation.
This study utilises the Ministry of Justice jury service eligibility criteria.
Adults registered on the electoral roll (General Electoral Roll or Māori Electoral Roll) who live within 45 km of the Auckland District Court are invited to participate.
The following people are ineligible:
• a Member of Parliament, the Governor-General, a judge, a community magistrate or a visiting justice
• a member of the Parole Board, a barrister or solicitor with a current practising certificate
• a Justice of the Peace who hears cases in the District Court
• employees of the Department of Corrections, New Zealand Police or the Ministry of Justice
• A person with an intellectual disability
• People sentenced to imprisonment for life, three years or more, or preventive detention
• People in the last five years, sentenced to imprisonment for three months or more or to home detention for three months or more.
Approved by the Auckland University of Technology Ethics Committee on 2025-09-09 for 3 years.
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Rachel Smith, rachel.smith@aut.ac.az
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