Post by Kiwi Frontline on Sept 14, 2016 17:10:26 GMT 12
DELEGAT'S SENTENCE ABOUT 'RACE AND CLASS'
Race and class played a role in the community service sentence given to a wine magnate's son for assault, says a Māori academic.
Leonie Pihama, director of Te Kotahi Research Institute at the University of Waikato, said the sentence given to the 19-year-old was reflective of what was wrong with the justice system.
A very wealthy pakeha man had received a community sentence for an offence that would have seen any other person, particularly a Māori or Pacific person, incarcerated.
"It's a reflection of a wider systemic issue," she said....
www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/313266/delegat's-sentence-about-'race-and-class'
Race and class played a role in the community service sentence given to a wine magnate's son for assault, says a Māori academic.
Leonie Pihama, director of Te Kotahi Research Institute at the University of Waikato, said the sentence given to the 19-year-old was reflective of what was wrong with the justice system.
A very wealthy pakeha man had received a community sentence for an offence that would have seen any other person, particularly a Māori or Pacific person, incarcerated.
"It's a reflection of a wider systemic issue," she said....
www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/313266/delegat's-sentence-about-'race-and-class'
