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Social Policy Journal of New Zealand - Issue 14 July 2000

Table of Contents

Foreword

Social Policy Papers

Counting for Nothing: Understanding the Issues in Monitoring Disparities

      Te Ropu Rangahau Hauora a Eru Pomare

In Search of Gender-Sensitive Measures of Poverty, Inequality and Well-Being

      Celia Briar

Does New Zealand Cannabis Policy Need Dutch Courage?

      Michael Webb

Options for Cannabis Policy In New Zealand

      Adrian Field and Sally Casswell

Policy Development Papers

The Māori SIDS Prevention Programme: Challenges and Implications of Māori Health Service Development

      David Tipene-Leach, Sally Abel, Riripeti Haretuku, and Carole Everard

Research Papers

The Policy Response to the Employment Task Force and Changing Patterns of Domestic Purposes Benefit Receipt: A Cohort Analysis

      Moira Wilson

Perspectives on Marijuana Policy in New Zealand: 1990 and 1998

      Adrian Field and Sally Casswell

Urban Māori Responses to Changes in State Housing Provision

      Charles Waldegrave, Catherine Love, Shane Stuart

Gender Differences and Adolescent Risks

      Judith Davey

New Zealand Youth Gangs: Key Findings and Recommendations from an Urban Ethnography

      Erin J. Eggleston

Wilderness Rehabilitation: An 18-Month Follow-Up of the Whakapakari Youth Programme

      Erin J. Eggleston

Reviews

Alison Quentin-Baxter (ed.): Recognising the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

      Sally Bullen, Melanie Smith

David Robinson (ed.): Social Capital and Policy Development and Social Capital in Action

      Raewyn Good