Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jul 25, 2023 2:47:37 GMT 12
SECTION 27 CULTURAL REPORTS ARE ROTTEN SAYS ACT LEADER
The ACT Party leader David Seymour has attacked Section 27 cultural reports as creating “a fast-growing cottage industry in getting criminals softer sentences”, but has done nothing to reduce crime or help victims.
Section 27 reports provide judges with extra background reports on offenders prior to sentencing – with justice experts saying that social, cultural or economic deprivation should be taken into account – without absolving them of wrongdoing or the actual commission of an offence.
But David Seymour says the whole system of section 27 cultural reports is rotten, and ACT will end it. He says their cost, in the 12 months to June 30 this year, jumped from $5.91m to $7.56m – and that money could be better used elsewhere.....
waateanews.com/2023/07/24/section-27-cultural-reports-are-rotten-says-act-leader/
TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGES NEEDED IN YOUTH JUSTICE
Lady Moxon says “Māori need the ability, the resources and the power to look after our own, work with our own and in our own way. That’s what we need, by Māori for Māori solutions. That’s what we’ve been calling for, for a very long time. No one is listening because the state has had all this control for so long, and it’s a mess”....
waateanews.com/2023/07/24/transformational-changes-needed-in-youth-justice/
The ACT Party leader David Seymour has attacked Section 27 cultural reports as creating “a fast-growing cottage industry in getting criminals softer sentences”, but has done nothing to reduce crime or help victims.
Section 27 reports provide judges with extra background reports on offenders prior to sentencing – with justice experts saying that social, cultural or economic deprivation should be taken into account – without absolving them of wrongdoing or the actual commission of an offence.
But David Seymour says the whole system of section 27 cultural reports is rotten, and ACT will end it. He says their cost, in the 12 months to June 30 this year, jumped from $5.91m to $7.56m – and that money could be better used elsewhere.....
waateanews.com/2023/07/24/section-27-cultural-reports-are-rotten-says-act-leader/
TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGES NEEDED IN YOUTH JUSTICE
Lady Moxon says “Māori need the ability, the resources and the power to look after our own, work with our own and in our own way. That’s what we need, by Māori for Māori solutions. That’s what we’ve been calling for, for a very long time. No one is listening because the state has had all this control for so long, and it’s a mess”....
waateanews.com/2023/07/24/transformational-changes-needed-in-youth-justice/