Posted: February 3, 2010 | Author: PacificEyeWitness.com | Filed under: Breaking News, Business, Community, Current, education, Fono Notices, health, NZPacific, South Pacific Region | Tags: crime, criminal, criminal justice system NZ, justice, Kim Workman, prisons, Rethinking Crime and Punishment, statement, te hurihanga closure defies logic |
Media Statement
Kim Workman
Rethinking Crime and Punishment
http://www.rethinking.org.nz
“The government’s decision to close Te Hurihanga defies logic”, said Kim Workman, of Rethinking Crime and Punishment.
“Te Hurihanga was deliberately designed, after comprehensive consultation with rehabilitation experts, the Commissioner of Police, and Tainui, to target the most serious young offenders and their families and whanau. After years of planning, and initial support from philanthropists such as Sir Stephen Tindall, this programme has all the signs of being a world leader in the transformation of highly dysfunctional young offenders, who without intensive intervention, would end up in prison.
“We know that 20% of all young offenders are responsible for 90% of the youth crime. No other programme in New Zealand has targeted the top end of young offenders in this way. The 18 month programme is the minimum required to make a difference to these “one man crime waves”. The reoffending rate so far, shows that this programme has the potential to be a world beater.
“A cost benefit analysis by Price Waterhouse estimated that this programme would break even after five years. You can’t assess its value simply on the annual cost per offender.
The $167,000 per annum cost per offender is a wise investment, for someone who without treatment, is likely to spend around ten of the next twenty years in prison, at a total cost of $800,000 or $100,000 a year.”
“Te Hurihanga is designed to care for 80 very serious offenders over the next 10 years at a cost of $17m. The taxpayer cost per offender if this programme is shut down, will be around $80m over the next decade.”
“There are no alternative programmes of that quality currently available. It would be a bad investment to place the facility in the hands of Child, Youth and Family, as 40% of all prisoners have been in state care.”
“Our view is that the government should conduct a cost-benefit analysis on Te Hurihanga, in comparison to its Fresh Start initiative, and the effective of a prison sentence in reducing reoffending. Then it should invest in the programme that produces the best bang for the buck”
Posted: January 22, 2010 | Author: PacificEyeWitness.com | Filed under: Analysis, Breaking News, Business, Community, Current, education, health, NZPacific, Opinion & Commentary, Politics, US & Foreign Affairs | Tags: ACT Party, california justice, courts, crime, criminal, david garrett, Institute of Policy Studies, judges, justice, Kim Workman, law and order, new zealand, offender, three strikes law, victims |
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Media Release
Rethinking Crime and Punishment
Garrett Misleading the Public on Effectiveness of Three Strikes – says Rethinking Crime and Punishment
“David Garrett should stop claiming that the three strikes law in California single handedly reduced violent offences in California by 50%, “says Kim Workman, Director of Rethinking Crime and Punishment. “It is a misleading claim, and not based on evidence.”
Since the late 1980’s there has been a steady and significant crime drop across the United States and Canada. But that drop trended five years before the introduction of the “three strikes” laws. Were “three strikes” the cause of a significant part of the decline, the rate of decline should have increased around ten years after its passage. Instead, the rate of decline remained constant, and the causes of the decline that operated prior to three strikes continued to be the primary reason for the drop in crime rates.”
“Comparing California’s decline in crime with other states presents a different picture. New York, not California, showed the sharpest decline in crime during the time in question, and yet it along with 21 other states, did not not have three strikes legislation. Canada experienced a similar national crime dropand yet it does not have three strikes, and imprisons people at a rate half that of New Zealand.”
“Even in California, the results were unclear. Californian counties that aggressively enforced the law had no greater declines in crime than did counties that used it far more sparingly. One study found that crime dropped by 21.3 percent in the six most lenient “three strikes” counties, compared to a 12.7 percent drop in the toughest counties.”
“It is inevitable that if one increases the prison population four fold in 10 years, that some of that crime reduction will be due to increased incarceration. Notwithstanding, there is no compelling evidence to show that the three strikes legislation impacted on criminal offending, one way or the other. The test in New Zealand will be what happens to the crime rate when hundreds of offenders start pouring out of prisons after serving 15 – 25 years or more, from 2040 onwards, and whether imprisonment has reduced their taste for crime. We think not.”
Kim Workman
Director
Rethinking Crime and Punishment
director@rethinking.org.nz
http://www.rethinking.org.nz
Related Story:
Gordon Campbell » Blog Archive » On the ‘Three Strikes’ Policy and the SAS in Kabul.
Posted: November 6, 2009 | Author: PacificEyeWitness.com | Filed under: Analysis, Breaking News, Current, NZPacific, US & Foreign Affairs | Tags: Army Soldier, barack obama, Bestof, capital cities, Chief of Staff, closing, crime, dead, death, family, fighting, Fort Hood, fort hood texas, friendship, giving, horizontal, justice, Killeen, killing, law, Malik Nadal Hasan, military, Physical Injury, Politics, preparation, reaching, silence, stand, talking, terrified, Texas, time, topics, Topix, trying, us military, usa, Waist Up, war, washington dc |
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KILLEEN, TX – NOVEMBER 06: U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey Jr. (3rd-R) and others stand together as they prepare for a moment of silence for the soldiers killed and wounded yesterday at Fort Hood on November 6, 2009 in Killeen, Texas. U.S. Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an army psychiatrist, killed 13 people and wounded 30 in a shooting rampage at the Soldier Readiness Center on the grounds of the military base Fort Hood yesterday. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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U.S. Army Command Sergeant Major Arthur L. Coleman Jr. (C) walks with Command Sergeant Major Norman Corbett (R) after arriving together on a helicopter at Fort Hood today.
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KILLEEN, TX – NOVEMBER 5: Sgt. Fanuaee Vea (L) tries to reach friends and family as Pvt. Savannah Green covers her face outside Fort Hood on November 5, 2009 in Killeen, Texas. At least one gunman killed 12 people and injured 31 in a shooting on a military base at Fort Hood yesterday. (Photo by Ben Sklar/Getty Images) Read the rest of this entry »
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Act MP Accused of Misleading Public on ‘Three-Strikes” Effectiveness
Posted: January 22, 2010 | Author: PacificEyeWitness.com | Filed under: Analysis, Breaking News, Business, Community, Current, education, health, NZPacific, Opinion & Commentary, Politics, US & Foreign Affairs | Tags: ACT Party, california justice, courts, crime, criminal, david garrett, Institute of Policy Studies, judges, justice, Kim Workman, law and order, new zealand, offender, three strikes law, victims | 1 Comment<!– /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:”Cambria Math”; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:1; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-format:other; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:0 0 0 0 0 0;} @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:swiss; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-1610611985 1073750139 0 0 159 0;} @font-face {font-family:Consolas; panose-1:2 11 6 9 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:modern; mso-font-pitch:fixed; mso-font-signature:-1610611985 1073750091 0 0 159 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:””; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:”Calibri”,”sans-serif”; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;} p.MsoPlainText, li.MsoPlainText, div.MsoPlainText {mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-link:”Plain Text Char”; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.5pt; font-family:Consolas; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;} span.PlainTextChar {mso-style-name:”Plain Text Char”; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-locked:yes; mso-style-link:”Plain Text”; mso-ansi-font-size:10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size:10.5pt; font-family:Consolas; mso-ascii-font-family:Consolas; mso-hansi-font-family:Consolas;} .MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; mso-default-props:yes; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;} @page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt; mso-header-margin:36.0pt; mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} –>
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Media Release
Rethinking Crime and Punishment
Garrett Misleading the Public on Effectiveness of Three Strikes – says Rethinking Crime and Punishment
“David Garrett should stop claiming that the three strikes law in California single handedly reduced violent offences in California by 50%, “says Kim Workman, Director of Rethinking Crime and Punishment. “It is a misleading claim, and not based on evidence.”
Since the late 1980’s there has been a steady and significant crime drop across the United States and Canada. But that drop trended five years before the introduction of the “three strikes” laws. Were “three strikes” the cause of a significant part of the decline, the rate of decline should have increased around ten years after its passage. Instead, the rate of decline remained constant, and the causes of the decline that operated prior to three strikes continued to be the primary reason for the drop in crime rates.”
“Comparing California’s decline in crime with other states presents a different picture. New York, not California, showed the sharpest decline in crime during the time in question, and yet it along with 21 other states, did not not have three strikes legislation. Canada experienced a similar national crime dropand yet it does not have three strikes, and imprisons people at a rate half that of New Zealand.”
“Even in California, the results were unclear. Californian counties that aggressively enforced the law had no greater declines in crime than did counties that used it far more sparingly. One study found that crime dropped by 21.3 percent in the six most lenient “three strikes” counties, compared to a 12.7 percent drop in the toughest counties.”
“It is inevitable that if one increases the prison population four fold in 10 years, that some of that crime reduction will be due to increased incarceration. Notwithstanding, there is no compelling evidence to show that the three strikes legislation impacted on criminal offending, one way or the other. The test in New Zealand will be what happens to the crime rate when hundreds of offenders start pouring out of prisons after serving 15 – 25 years or more, from 2040 onwards, and whether imprisonment has reduced their taste for crime. We think not.”
Kim Workman
Director
Rethinking Crime and Punishment
director@rethinking.org.nz
http://www.rethinking.org.nz
Related Story:
Gordon Campbell » Blog Archive » On the ‘Three Strikes’ Policy and the SAS in Kabul.