Article: NEW ZEALAND: JUSTICE MINISTER BURTON RELEASES PRISON POPULATION FORECAST 2005

Article: Prison Population Rockets in New ...
Xinhua English Newswire;  December 17, 1998 ;     417 words ... ... sentenced prisoners in New Zealand, a country with a population ... said the rise in the prison population was mainly caused by ... 8 percent of the male prison population and 42 percent of the female. New Zealand Corrections Minister ...

Article: Stopping violent offending in New Zealand: is ...
New Zealand Journal of Psychology;  December 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Maori make up just under 15% of the New Zealand population (Statistics New Zealand, 2001) but are heavily over-represented ... 2001). The proportion of the prison population that is indigenous in New Zealand is 51%, considerably higher than ...

Article: NEW ZEALAND: EFFECTIVE INTERVENTIONS PACKAGE ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  August 15, 2006 ;     700+ words ...The government of New Zealand issued the following news release: Prime ... the fast growing rate of imprisonment New Zealand has been experiencing. "New Zealand's prison population has increased sharply over the last decade ...

Article: NEW ZEALAND: MOVING THE JUSTICE DEBATE FORWARD
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 14, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... government of New Zealand issued the following ... the growing prison population is one of the ... 1989, while New Zealand's most serious ... the growing prison population. "As we are ... much aware, New Zealand's incarceration ...

Article: New Zealand's Maori people don't have "warrior ...
Asian News International;  September 11, 2009 ;     636 words ... ... that despite being over-represented in New Zealand's criminal fraternity and prison population, Maori do not have a "warrior gene" that ... are the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand. The group probably arrived in southwestern ...

Article: Maori prison population
The Nelson Mail;  April 15, 2009 ;     308 words ...Sir, New Zealand ranks seventh in the OECD for prison population, on a par with Mexico, with 155 prisoners per 100 ... themselves as Maori. For the non-Maori population, New Zealand has a modest 101 per 100,000 in prison, about average ...

Article: When penal populism stops: legitimacy, scandal and the power to ...
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology;  December 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... the President of the New Zealand Law Commission, launched ... when recorded crime in New Zealand had dropped by some ... aimed to reduce the prison population. To put her speech ... 736 prisoners in New Zealand. In 2006, there were ...