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  • Over-representation of Maori in the criminal justice system
    • Executive Summary
    • 1.0 Introduction
    • 2.0 Criminal justice system bias and amplification
    • 3.0 Early life environmental influences
    • 4.0 Overall summary and conclusions
    • Bibliography
    • Appendix of statistics
  • Reconviction Patterns of Released Prisoners: A 36-months Follow-up Analysis
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  • A Risk-Need Profile Using Four Measures for Youth Offenders Incarcerated in Young Offender Units
  • Māori Focus Units and Māori Therapeutic
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    • Conducting research in Ara Poutama Aotearoa
    • Te Ara Tika The Right Way - The Delivery of Mental Health Services
    • Practice: The New Zealand Corrections Journal
    • Tai Aroha Evaluation 2015
    • Comorbid substance use disorders and mental health disorders among New Zealand prisoners
    • Women's Experiences of Re-offending and Rehabilitation
    • Topic Series Reports
    • Formative Evaluation of the Mothers with Babies Units
    • What Works for Maori
    • Community Based Domestic Violence 2012
    • Tai Aroha 2012
    • Breaking the Cycle of Crime
    • Youth Therapeutic Programmes
    • Prisoner double-bunking: Perceptions and impacts (2012)
    • Community Sentence Patterns in New Zealand
    • Benchmarking Study of Home Detention Programs in Australia and New Zealand
    • About Time: Turning people away from a life of crime and reducing re-offending
    • Reconviction Rates of Sex Offenders: Five year follow-up study
    • Risk assessment of recidivism of violent sexual female offenders
    • What works now
    • Reconviction Patterns of offenders managed in the community: A 60-months follow-up analysis
    • Reconviction patterns of released prisoners: A 48-months follow-up analysis
    • Reconviction patterns of released prisoners: A 60-months follow-up analysis
    • Maori Offenders and Home Detention: Analysis of a One-Year Cohort
    • Reconviction patterns of offenders managed in the community: A 48-months follow-up analysis
    • Over-representation of Maori in the criminal justice system
      • Executive Summary
      • 1.0 Introduction
      • 2.0 Criminal justice system bias and amplification
      • 3.0 Early life environmental influences
      • 4.0 Overall summary and conclusions
      • Bibliography
      • Appendix of statistics
    • Reconviction Patterns of Released Prisoners: A 36-months Follow-up Analysis
    • And there was light...
    • Best use of Psychological Service treatment resources
    • Census of Prison Inmates and Home Detainees
    • Child Sex Offender Treatment
    • Criminogenic Needs Inventory (CNI)
    • Inmate Family Relocation Study
    • National Study of Psychiatric Morbidity in NZ Prisons
    • New Zealand high-risk offenders
    • Prison Youth Vulnerability Scale
    • Risk of Reconviction
    • Storm Warning
    • Te Whakakotahitanga - An Evaluation of the Te Piriti Special Treatment Programme
    • The Driving Offender Treatment Scale
    • The Effectiveness of Correctional Treatment
    • The Utility of the Psychopathy Checklist - Screening Version for Predicting Serious Violent Recidivism in a New Zealand Offender Sample
    • When the Bough Breaks
    • A Risk-Need Profile Using Four Measures for Youth Offenders Incarcerated in Young Offender Units
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In this section

  • Executive Summary
  • 1.0 Introduction
    • 1.0 Introduction
    • 1.1 Purpose and structure of this report
    • 1.2 Previous work on over-representation
    • 1.3 Cautionary comments about statistical data
  • 2.0 Criminal justice system bias and amplification
    • 2.0 Criminal justice system bias and amplification
    • 2.1 Apprehensions
    • 2.1.1 Comment
    • 2.2 Prosecutions and convictions
    • 2.3 Sentencing
    • 2.4 Post-sentencing processes
    • 2.4.1 Home Detention
    • 2.5 Findings from Reconviction/Re-imprisonment Analysis
    • 2.6 Summary and Conclusion
  • 3.0 Early life environmental influences
    • 3.1 Introduction
    • 3.1.1 Early risk factors
    • 3.2 Family structure, context and processes
    • 3.3 Individual characteristics of the child
    • 3.4 Educational participation, engagement and achievement
    • 3.5 Alcohol and substance abuse
    • 3.6 Other findings from longitudinal studies
  • 4.0 Overall summary and conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Appendix of statistics

Over-representation of Maori in the criminal justice system

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Executive Summary

1.0 Introduction

2.0 Criminal justice system bias and amplification

3.0 Early life environmental influences

4.0 Overall summary and conclusions

Bibliography

Appendix of statistics

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