The Minister behind the scheme was Kelvin Davis. He said it would make the corrections system work better for Maori who make up more than half of the prison population. He said the objective was to reduce the number of Maori in prison to match the Maori share of the general population.
But has it worked? Or is it a get-out-of-jail-free card for Maori offenders? Is it making our communities unsafe?
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I wonder if the assailant bouncer was referred to kapahaka, including obligatory haka, to tame his violent tendencies. It seems very likely any cultural group with the time to fritter in meetings will likely have a abackground of token respect for conventioaal law. My personal view is that the "imagining decolonisation doctrine very extensively preached by Moana Jackson and Margaret Motu in particular has contributed largely to the explosion of maori offending. The imagining concept is obscure and acheievs little. It seems the message has filtered down to maori at all levels and is applied as "enact decolonisation". Interpreted as rejection of bahavioral norms, including law abidance, as estblished by the alien colonists. Thus all maori now have a moral justification for acting contraray to law.With greatly reduced penalties the incentive is intensified.
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