Staff

Venezia Kingi

Senior Research Fellow

Venezia Kingi joined the Institute of Criminology in 1999. She is a graduate in psychology from Victoria University with a PhD on women in prison and their children. She previously worked in the Office of the Commissioner for Children, and the Law Faculty at Victoria University. Other research in which she has been involved has focused on jury decision-making processes, child offenders, child witnesses in court and prison parenting programmes.

Venezia is currently carrying out research with Victim Support on the needs of families of homicide victims. She is also working with New Zealand Police to update work related to the Pacific Prevention of Domestic Violence Programme (PPDVP). Other research projects Venezia has been involved with include:

• effective interventions for adult victims/survivors of sexual violence for the Ministry of Women's Affairs
• the Public Defence Service Pilot evaluation for the Legal Services Agency
• a review of the use of restorative justice processes in family violence cases for the Ministry of Justice
• a five year evaluation of Te Poutama Arahi Rangatahi a Child Youth and Family Residence for adolescent sex offenders
• the evaluation of the Court-referred Restorative Justice pilot for the Ministry of Justice