Newsletter Archive 2012

Below are our 2012 newsletters

Issue 108, December 2012
A change is gonna come.

• Chuck Colson and the Ministry of Reconciliation – a Christmas Story

Issue 107, September 2012

Courting Compassion – Managing Emotion in the Courtroom

• Comment on Walklate's Article
• Rethinking's Submission to the Victims of Crime Reform Bill
• The Issue of Victim Impact Statements – does restorative
  practise provide an answer?
• Do victim impact statements work?
• Victim-Offender Encounters

Issue 106, August 2012
The Bail Amendment Bill – Thin Edge of the Wedge?

• Justspeak Launches Auckland Branch
• THE TRAUMA AND TRIUMPHS OF THE COLORADO SHOOTING
• Christie Marceau's Case Sub judice? - Yeah Right!
• The Sentencing (Aggravating Factors) Amendment Bill – a
  Legislative Solution in Search of Problem

Issue 105, July 2012
Maori Over-representation in the Criminal Justice System –Does Structural Discrimination Have anything to do with it?

• Changes to Three Strikes and Mandatory Minimum Sentencing
• Management Courts – putting Problem-solving Courts into one
  Basket
• What are Prisons for? What is their contribution to public safety
  and security?
• The Report of the Social Services Committee into the identification, rehabilitation and care and protection of child offenders

Issue 104, July 2012
The Government's Reducing Crime and Reoffending Action Plan

• The Formation of the Justice Coalition
• Resisting the 'Deficit' Model - A Strengths Based Approach to Prisoner Reintegration
• Measuring the Loss of Maori Potential in the Criminal Justice Sector

Issue 103, June 2012
Meeting the Prime Minister's Goals in Crime Reduction – The Place of Offender Rehabilitation in
a Crime Reduction Strategy

• Towards a Comprehensive Crime Reduction Strategy
• Does Offender Rehabilitation Make Economic Sense? 
• Inside and Out - Improving Primary Health care for current and former inmates and their whānau
• A Personal Comment – What is there to Hide? What is there to
  Discuss? Reflections on the Inside and Outside Colloquium.
•  A Forensic Psychiatrist's View of Prisoner Rehabilitation

Issue 102, May 2012
Meeting the Prime Minister's Goals in Crime Reduction – What should we do with Prison's?

• The Young People's Voice on Justice Will Now Be Heard
• Do Politicians have the Courage to Abandon the Law and Order Auction? Five MP's speak out!
• It costs $94,000 to keep one offender in prison for a year – how many hip replacements would that buy?
• Monitoring Places of Detention: Annual Report 2011

Issue 101, April 2012
Meeting the Prime Minister's Goals in Crime Reduction – Why the Crime Rate Could Fall Over the Next Three Years

• Youth forum to take politicians to task on the justice agenda
• Prisons No Longer the Answer
• Californians Opposed to Three Strikes Policy
• Rethinking Speakers Popular with Community and Service Organisations

Issue 100, April 2012
Celebrating our Past, Supporting our Future

• Why is your support important NOW?
• What is Rethinking doing right NOW?
• How you can help us
• a message to those that use our services

Issue 99, March 2012
Meeting the Prime Ministers Goals in Crime Reduction

• Rethinking's position on The Prime Ministers Goals
• Does imprisonment work?
• Will Sending People to Prison Impact on the Crime Rate?
• Punishing the Poor – The Neo-Liberal Government of Social Insecurity
• Social Exclusion and Crime

Issue 98, February 2012
A Mandate for Change – Is it Time for the Big One?

• 'The Growing Divide: A State of the Nation Report by the Salvation Army 2012'
• The Ombudsman's Investigation of the Department of Corrections in relation to the Provision, Access and Availability of Prisoner Health Services
• A study of the children of prisoners Findings from Maori data June 2011 A Report from Te Puni Kokiri, published December 2011

Issue 97, February 2012
“Justspeak” – “Speaking Out and Up “

• Driving Crime Down – the Myth and Reality of the
  New York Story
• A study of the children of prisoners: findings from
  Maori data
• Public Safety Assured following Review of Home
  Detention

Issue 96, January 2012
Rethinking's Crime and Justice Focus for the Next Three Years

• The Case for Evidence-based Research
• Talking About Rehabilitation
• A Useful Resource on the Youth Justice System
• Restorative Justice Today – Theory and Reality