Vine Quick Reads: 4 April 2025

Vine Quick Reads: 4 April 2025

Welcome to our Quick Reads format. Each week we share selected news bites relevant to family violence and sexual violence in Aotearoa.

New resource: Using AI Responsibly for Research on Violence Against Women

A new resource on using generative AI (GenAI) for research on violence against women has been jointly published by the Sexual Violence Research Institute (SVRI) and The MERL Tech Initiative (MTI): Using AI Responsibly for Research on Violence Against Women (2025). This guide was written in response to questions raised about the ethical implications, risks, and real-world applications of GenAI. The guide aims to strengthen AI literacy and offer practical advice to help violence researchers engage critically and safely with GenAI. Two of the guide’s authors have also penned a blog post about the new resource.

New research on the removal of aboriginal children from their families in Western Australia

Human Rights Watch (HRW) have published: “All I Know Is I Want Them Home”: Disproportionate Removal of Aboriginal Children from Families in Western Australia (2025). HRW draws on data from the Department of Communities and interview data from Aboriginal families impacted by child removals to examine the circumstances surrounding the removal of Aboriginal children by the state in Western Australia. They found the mother’s experience of family violence and homelessness were often implicated in the state’s decision to remove a child. This was the case often in the absence of an adequate response to the mother’s experience of violence and homelessness.

New research on ‘Officer-involved domestic violence’ in Australia

A new open access article has been published on ‘Officer-involved domestic violence’: “The Fact That He Was a Police Officer Was Probably My Number 1 Challenge”: Victim-Survivor Experiences of Officer-Involved Domestic Violence in Australia (2025). The authors have also provided a summary of their research for The Conversation. Relatedly, the Powerful Perpetrators project in the United Kingdom release a research brief last year on a similar subject: The police and sexual misconduct: a summary of the literature (2024).