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Languages : en
Pages : 3
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Māori over-representation in the criminal justice system
Author: Over-representation of Māori in the Criminal Justice System
Author: New Zealand. Department of Corrections. Policy, Strategy and Research GroupPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Māori are disproportionately represented in criminal justice statistics to an alarming degree. This paper attempts to shed light on why this is so. It examines the issue by considering the evidence for two different (though not mutually exclusive) explanatory approaches:|that bias operates within the criminal justice system, such that any suspected or actual offending has harsher consequences for those Māori, resulting in an accumulation of individuals within the system; and|that a range of adverse early-life social and environmental factors result in Māori being at greater risk of ending up in patterns of adult criminal conflict.
The Maori and the Criminal Justice System
Author: Moana JacksonPublisher:
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Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Over-representation of Māori in the Criminal Justice System
Author: New Zealand. Department of Corrections. Policy, Strategy and Research GroupPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Māori are disproportionately represented in criminal justice statistics to an alarming degree. This paper attempts to shed light on why this is so. It examines the issue by considering the evidence for two different (though not mutually exclusive) explanatory approaches:|that bias operates within the criminal justice system, such that any suspected or actual offending has harsher consequences for those Māori, resulting in an accumulation of individuals within the system; and|that a range of adverse early-life social and environmental factors result in Māori being at greater risk of ending up in patterns of adult criminal conflict.
Perspectives on Responding to the Over-representation of Māori in the Criminal Justice System
Author: New Zealand. Ministry of Justice. Justice Sector Policy GroupPublisher:
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Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Maori Youth and the Criminal Justice System
Author: Navdeep Singh-ShergillPublisher:
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Category : Juvenile delinquency
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
"The paper concludes that the solution to the over-representation of Maori youth in the present criminal justice system lies in the establishment of a parallel criminal justice system for Maori youth."--Abstract.
The Maori and the Criminal Justice System
Author: Moana JacksonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 51
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Criminal Justice
Author: Jarrod GilbertPublisher: Auckland University Press
ISBN: 1775589668
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
In this major new textbook, leading scholars from criminology, history, journalism, law, psychology, sociology and other fields take students and general readers inside New Zealand’s criminal justice system. The authors begin with an introduction to the history and current state of crime, policing and prisons in New Zealand; they then explain the workings of criminal procedure, from evidence to sentencing; and finally they address key current issues such as Maori and the justice system, youth and gangs, psychology and the media. For students and general readers, this book tackles the big questions: How can crime be explained? Is crime rising or falling and if so, why? How do the police operate? How do the courts work? What is the meaning of a ‘life’ sentence? What is the link between crime and mental instability? Why are Maori over-represented in the criminal justice system? How do we deal with youthful offenders? How do judicial miscarriages arise? Do the stories we read about crime in the media reflect reality? And how does justice operate in the criminal underworld? This book is an important new introduction to New Zealand’s criminal justice system – from crime and policing to the courts – aimed at students and general readers.
Maori and the Criminal Justice System - A New Perspective
Author: Indigenous Courts, Self-Determination and Criminal Justice
Author: Valmaine TokiPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351239600
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
In New Zealand, as well as in Australia, Canada and other comparable jurisdictions, Indigenous peoples comprise a significantly disproportionate percentage of the prison population. For example, Maori, who comprise 15% of New Zealand’s population, make up 50% of its prisoners. For Maori women, the figure is 60%. These statistics have, moreover, remained more or less the same for at least the past thirty years. With New Zealand as its focus, this book explores how the fact that Indigenous peoples are more likely than any other ethnic group to be apprehended, arrested, prosecuted, convicted and incarcerated, might be alleviated. Taking seriously the rights to culture and to self-determination contained in the Treaty of Waitangi, in many comparable jurisdictions (including Australia, Canada, the United States of America), and also in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the book make the case for an Indigenous court founded on Indigenous conceptions of proper conduct, punishment, and behavior. More specifically, the book draws on contemporary notions of ‘therapeutic jurisprudence’ and ‘restorative justice’ in order to argue that such a court would offer an effective way to ameliorate the disproportionate incarceration of Indigenous peoples.