Is Crime on the Increase? What Can we Do About it? - Newsletter 46
By Kim Workman | October 1, 2008
Over the next few weeks we will hear increasingly, claims by Opposition politicians and “Tough on Crime” lobbyists that crime in New Zealand is increasing? Dr Gabrielle Maxwell’s article tells us something different. Who is right? Why is it that the public prefer to listen to the media and justice advocates, rather than to experts? Let’s have your view on this issue.
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Women in Prison - Newsletter 45
By Kim Workman | September 8, 2008
Celia Lashlie makes the point that if many of the women in prison had support prior to release, they would have changed the direction of their lives, and made the firm decision not to re-offend. On her reckoning. the lives of 98 people in their immediate sphere of influence. She considers that the Corrections system are missing out on an opportunity to change lives. What do you think?
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The Children of Prisoners, the Hidden Victims of Crime - Newsletter 44
By Kim Workman | September 8, 2008
This newsletter makes a case for providing additional support to the children of prisoners, and proposes a “Bill of Rights for the Children of Incarcerated Parents”. What are your views? The Victims’ rights Act 2002, provides that any person who deals with a victim should treat that person with courtesy and compassion, and respect that persons’ dignity and privacy. Should the same obligations apply to the children of prisoners?
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Policing and the Numbers Game - Newsletter 43
By Kim Workman | September 8, 2008
Suggests that:
- Traditional police patrol make little difference to crime rates, and may in fact increase the level of reported crime;
- There is no proven connection between the number of officers and crime rates;
- The primary traditional crime prevention strategies adopted by modern police have been shown to have little or no effect on crime
What are your views? Is more best? Or should the Police focus on targeted crime reduction strategies e.g. against bag snatchers?
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Anti Social Behaviour Orders - Newsletter 42
By Kim Workman | July 30, 2008
This week’s newsletter sets out what Vivian Stern describes as “a gloomy scenario”. She sums it up this way:
“More people pushed into social exclusion and defined as „risky‟. More responses that are based on surveillance and control. Less use of traditional methods of social control through building social cohesion, setting up mutual associations and co-operatives, opening youth clubs, strengthening families, supporting parents, providing remedial education and job training. We need to take off all these spectacles and look again through different lenses at what a criminal justice policy looks like when the State stops treating people as things to control and remembers they are people, a policy that makes a country safer and happier. ”
Could ASBOs be used positively, to address “sub-criminal” behaviour? Or is it a human tendency, to use powers of that kind, not to reduce crime, but to ‘deal to’ label children and young people. What do you think”
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