In this essay, the author critiques some of the findings from the Sixth Report of the New Zealand Family Violence Death Review Committee and provides some recommendations for policymakers. 

Recommendations 

1. Delivering men’s stopping violence services with victim services within one organisational setting or within a formal partnership organisational setting.
2. Requiring men’s stopping violence programmes to provide safe and supportive service responses to victims, irrespective of the man’s attendance at the programme.
3. Re-orientating the criminal justice response towards victim safety, including integrating the safety of victims’ into all criminal justice responses.
4. Developing an integrated justice strategy for men who use violence that is directed at upholding victims’ safety. This would include developing sentencing options and alternatives to imprisonment which are safe (including culturally), just and effective for victims and for men using violence.