RT Article
T1 Performing ignorance of state violence in Aotearoa New Zealand
JF Journal of criminology
VO 57
IS 4
SP 425
OP 444
A1 Stanley, Elizabeth 1972-
A1 Gibson, Zeni
A1 Craddock, India
A2 Gibson, Zeni
A2 Craddock, India
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1910911755
AB In 2019, the New Zealand government established a Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care to investigate the abuse and neglect of children, young people and vulnerable adults in Aotearoa/New Zealand between 1950 and 1999. The public hearings, witness statements and interim reports have charted horrific violence by state and faith-based workers including torture, sexual assaults, serious physical violence, and layers of neglect and discrimination. Māori have been especially targeted as victims of abuse and harms. This article considers the multiple layers of ignorance-making from state representatives. It shows how state agencies have navigated Commission hearings through 10 strategies that demonstrate some acknowledgement of their offending and trauma-making while simultaneously minimising their responsibility and resecuring their institutional legitimacy as protectors of the vulnerable and saviours of Te Tiriti (the Treaty of Waitangi), ethics and integrity. This careful performance stands at odds with the ongoing layers of violence and harms in state care.
K1 ignorance-making
K1 agnosis
K1 commissions and inquiries
K1 New Zealand
K1 Aotearoa
K1 abuse in care
K1 State Violence
DO 10.1177/26338076241252184