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Government needs Goal to Reduce Imprisonment
Friday, 17 May 2013, 11:37 am | Rethinking Crime and Punishment
The Government should have a goal not only to reduce reoffending, but to reduce imprisonment, says Kim Workman, Spokesperson for Rethinking Crime and Punishment, in a keynote address to the Restorative Justice Aotearoa Conference, held in Auckland. More >>
Budget good news for community focussed crime reduction
Friday, 17 May 2013, 9:13 am | Rethinking Crime and Punishment
“Budget funding decisions in the crime and justice area could herald a new phase in the development of community-led crime reduction”, says Kim Workman, spokesperson for Rethinking Crime and Punishment. More >>
New Zealand overusing the tool of custodial remand
Wednesday, 17 April 2013, 9:21 am | Rethinking Crime and Punishment
“The Ministry of Justice’s findings that the rate of offending by those charged with the most common serious violent offences over the same period was about 1 per cent, shows that Judges correctly assess the risk in almost every case” says Kim ... More >>
Restorative Justice Holds Offenders Personally Accountable
Monday, 15 April 2013, 11:07 am | Rethinking Crime and Punishment
Restorative Justice Holds Offenders Personally Accountable “The ‘Restoring Hope’ documentary on Maori TV last night, was a moving account of what happens when offenders and victims meet in a spirit of reconciliation and healing”, said Kim Workman, ... More >>
Rethinking Calls For Review Into Ethnic Bias Within Police
Thursday, 11 April 2013, 8:41 am | Rethinking Crime and Punishment
“It is no longer sufficient for Police to continue to deny Institutional Bias toward Maori” says Kim Workman, Spokesperson for Rethinking Crime and Punishment. “The Police should conduct a systematic review into their institutional practise and policy. ... More >>
Is it time to measure the Moral Performance of Prisons?
Tuesday, 26 March 2013, 5:06 pm | Rethinking Crime and Punishment
“The Department of Corrections must be congratulated for introducing prison performance tables, a process by which all 17 prisons are measured against one another in a range of areas including security, assaults, drug tests and rehabilitation programmes.” ... More >>
Time For a New Approach to Punishment
Monday, 25 March 2013, 5:55 pm | Rethinking Crime and Punishment
“New Zealand has developed a similar approach toward punishment as that of other Anglophile countries” said Kim Workman, spokesperson for Rethinking Crime and Punishment. He was speaking at the launch of a book by criminologists John Pratt and Anna Erikson, ... More >>
Workman: Launch of 'Contrasts in Punishment'
Monday, 25 March 2013, 5:35 pm | Rethinking Crime and Punishment
Let me start by thanking Emeritus Professor David Brown for his insightful reflection on the book, ‘Contrast in Punishment”. I recall David speaking at the ‘Costs of Crime’ Conference in February 2011 which was co-hosted by the then Institute ... More >>
Time for NZ to Develop a New Approach to Punishment
Monday, 25 March 2013, 5:32 pm | Rethinking Crime and Punishment
“New Zealand has developed a similar approach toward punishment as that of other Anglophile countries” said Kim Workman, spokesperson for Rethinking Crime and Punishment. He was speaking at the launch of a book by criminologists John Pratt and Anna Erikson, ... More >>
Treat Prisons as a Cause of Crime
Thursday, 14 March 2013, 10:31 am | Rethinking Crime and Punishment
“The Government’s target to reduce reoffending by 25% by 2017, will not be achieved without a major paradigm shift. Instead of regarding prison as a place of punishment and rehabilitation, we need to recognise that prison is a major cause of crime.” More >>
UN urges New Zealand to reduce Racism in criminal justice
Monday, 4 March 2013, 9:18 am | Rethinking Crime and Punishment
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has urged NZ to intensify efforts to reduce structural discrimination in the criminal justice system More >>
Prisoners Compensation Bill Legally and Morally Flawed
Friday, 22 February 2013, 3:28 pm | Rethinking Crime and Punishment
“The Prisoners and Victims Claims (Continuation and Reform) Bill has no place in the legislative agenda of a government committed to the reduction of c rime, and reform of the prison system” Kim Workman, Director of Rethinking Crime and Punishment, ... More >>
Lack of Govt Research into Racial Bias in Criminal Justice
Thursday, 21 February 2013, 3:15 pm | Rethinking Crime and Punishment
A Shadow Report by the Robson Hanan Trust to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), has criticised the lack of NZ research into whether the over-representation of Māori in the criminal justice system could ... More >>
Provisional Support For PM Prisoner Work/Education Strategy
Wednesday, 30 January 2013, 10:21 am | Rethinking Crime and Punishment
“One of the great myths perpetuated by some sectors of the community, is that prisoners are by nature lazy and don’t want to work” says Kim Workman, spokesperson for Rethinking Crime and Punishment. More >>
Provisional Support for prisoner work plan
Tuesday, 29 January 2013, 4:18 pm | Rethinking Crime and Punishment
“One of the great myths perpetuated by some sectors of the community, is that prisoners are by nature lazy and don’t want to work” says Kim Workman, spokesperson for Rethinking Crime and Punishment. More >>
SST’s opposition to gay marriage consistent with its values
Sunday, 20 January 2013, 7:29 pm | Rethinking Crime and Punishment
Garth McVicar’s view that crime will rise if gay couples are allowed to marry, is absolutely consistent with the approach Sensible Sentencing Trust has taken over the years, says Spokesperson for Rethinking Crime and Punishment, Kim Workman. More >>
Call to Arm Police an Attempt to Create Public Fear
Friday, 28 December 2012, 11:37 am | Rethinking Crime and Punishment
“The Police Union call to arm the Police is a calculated attempt to create unjustified public fear”, says Kim Workman, Director of Rethinking Crime and Punishment. New Zealand has a proud history of unarmed policing by consent, which the Police Association ... More >>
December Newsletter
Friday, 21 December 2012, 11:22 am | Rethinking Crime and Punishment
Changes to Look for in 2013 Watch out for our next newsletter in February 2013. It will tell you about a significant shift in the way the Robson Hanan Trust, and its two major initiatives, ‘Rethinking Crime and Punishment’ and ‘Justspeak’ ... More >>
Boot Camp Fails to Design a Workable Programme
Thursday, 13 December 2012, 5:53 pm | Rethinking Crime and Punishment
“The Ministry of Social Development’s announcement that more than two thirds of those who have completed the Fresh Start programmes since the reforms were put in place have reoffended within six months, should not come as a surprise”, said ... More >>
Susan Couch Compensation – Doing the Right Thing
Friday, 7 December 2012, 9:04 am | Rethinking Crime and Punishment
“Corrections CEO Ray Smith should be commended for cutting through the adversarial legal system, and making a settlement offer to Susan Couch” said Kim Workman, Director of Rethinking Crime and Punishment. “It is the difference between “Doing the ... More >>
