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      Reducing our prison population: Past failures and new approaches

      Tauri, Juan Marcellus
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      Tauri, J.M. (2019). Reducing our prison population: Past failures and new approaches. Decolonization of Criminology and Justice, 1(1), 106–116. https://doi.org/10.24135/dcj.v1i1.12
      Permanent Research Commons link: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/13984
      Abstract
      Earlier this year the Minister of Justice, Andrew Little announced the latest in a long line of reviews, taxpayer-funded summits and inter-agency, ‘wholeof-government’ projects stretching back to the late-1980s, all aimed in some form or other, at making the criminal justice system more ‘safe’ and ‘effective’. Officially launched at a summit held in Porirua in August 2018, the aim of the latest review is to reduce New Zealand’s prison muster by 30% over the next 15 years. And unsurprisingly, given our significant over-representation in prisons, a specific focus of the review is on identifying ways to significantly reduce Māori over-representation in the prison population. This commentary represents a modest offering in response to the current government’s stated aim of making the justice system safer and more effective, and to reduce the prison muster, and it is based on two core arguments, namely that successive governments and the public service have failed to reduce offending and imprisonment and that successful solutions require community empowerment and government/public service accountability.
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      2019
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      Journal Article
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      Auckland University of Technology (AUT) Library
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      Copyright © 2019 Juan Marcellus Tauri

      This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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