Miss Mackenzie Auld
Biography:
Mackenzie is a final-year PhD candidate and Clinical Psychology student at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand supervised by Dr Nichola Tyler. The three studies presented at this symposium comprise her PhD examining the impact of the New Zealand Register on outcomes for registered persons. Dr Caleb Lloyd and Dr Nichola Tyler are internationally renowned academics affiliated with Swinburne University of Technology and are both co-authors of the research.
Abstract:
Despite widespread public and political support, research has consistently demonstrated that registration policies alone fail to protect citizens from sexual harm. However, the New Zealand Register has taken a novel human services approach to the risk management of individuals convicted of sexual offences underpinned by international best practice. Supported by a risk management framework grounded in principles of the Risk Need Responsivity Model (Bonta & Andrews, 2023) and the Good Lives Model (Ward, 2002), the Register is relatively unique in its approach to managing registered persons. This presentation will provide an overview of the first robust evaluation of the Register and its impact on outcomes for registered persons using a mixed methods approach. This will be followed by a discussion led by the authors around the importance of taking a human services approach to community risk management and the implications of the findings for registration and other crime prevention policies both within New Zealand and globally.