Methods. -- Background. The situation as reported in 2005 - Papua New Guinea's legal obligations. -- A continuing practice of police violence. Beatings, shootings, and excessive force - Children in conflict with the law - Sex workers - Street vendors - Sexual violence - Sexual abuse by guards at Buimo Prison in January 2006 -- Targeting crime victims. -- Illegal conditions of detention. Detention of children with adults - Failure to provide children with medical care. -- Consequences of police abuse for the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Harassment for possessing condoms. -- Ongoing impunity for police violence. Response of high-level government officials to evidence of police abuse - Police failure to discipline and prosecute - Police shootings of schoolboys in Enga Province - Police beatings and gang rape of women and girls in raid on the Three-Mile Guesthouse, Port Moresby - Internal disciplinary sanctions and criminal prosecutions - New police procedures for dealing with children - Responsibility of magistrates, judges, and the Ombudsman Commission - Magistrates and judges - The Ombudsman Commission. -- Australia and other international donors -- Recommendations -- Acknowledgments.

This collection builds on previous works on gender violence in the Pacific, but goes beyond some previous approaches to ‘domestic violence’ or ‘violence against women’ in analysing the dynamic processes of ‘engendering’ violence in PNG. ‘Engendering’ refers not just to the sex of individual actors, but to gender as a crucial relation in collective life and the massive social transformations ongoing in PNG: conversion to Christianity, the development of extractive industries, the implanting of introduced models of justice and the law and the spread of HIV. Hence the collection examines issues of ‘troubled masculinities’ as much as ‘battered women’ and tries to move beyond the black and white binaries of blaming either tradition or modernity as the primary cause of gender violence. It relates original scholarly research in the villages and towns of PNG to questions of policy and practice and reveals the complexities and contestations in the local translation of concepts of human rights. It will interest undergraduate and graduate students in gender studies and Pacific studies and those working on the policy and practice of combating gender violence in PNG and elsewhere.

​ This book describes the concept of child victimization in all its facets. Millions of young people throughout the world face violence, sexual, physical, and emotional abuse and exploitation on a daily basis. The worldwide victimization of young people can be prevented, or, at least, its incidence can be greatly reduced, if purposeful action is taken to do so. This volume researches and documents some of the ways in which young people throughout the world are victimized, and suggests strategies for preventing various forms of child vistimization. Eight distinct forms of victimization are identified and analyzed in detail. Included are discussions on child prostitution and pornography, economic exploitation through child labor and trafficking, physical and other abuse inflicted on young people in schools and other institutions, the use of children as armed combatants, and the denial of the basic needs and rights of children to such things as home and to education. In each chapter the authors discuss the nature of the victimization, its global dimensions and prevalence, and the measures governments and/or others are taking, or failing to take, to combat the harm based on the concept that youth victimization is a form of government crime.

Papua New Guinea has a complex ‘law and order’ problem and an entrenched epidemic of HIV. This book explores their interaction. It also probes their joint challenges and opportunities—most fundamentally for civic security, a condition that could offer some immunity to both.