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1. Measuring reoffending with court data: proposed tier 1 specification [pdf, 750 KB]

   JUSTICE SECTOR Working paper Measuring re-offending with court data: Proposed Tier 1 specification Charles Sullivan & Lynley Povey 24 November 2015 Summary This paper is a proposed specification for a Tier 1 measure of re-offending using reconviction data as recommended by the 2009 Review of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics (Statistics New Zealand, 2009). Tier 1 statistics are the most important statistics for understanding how well New Zealand is performing. The spe

2. Who is vulnerable or hard-to-reach in the provision of maternity, Well Child and early parenting support services? [pdf, 467 KB]

   ...low birthweight, injury and adverse outcomes There is increasing evidence that neurological damage is an important mediating mechanisms which leads to offending. Damage to the pre-fontal cortex through head injury, birth complications, disease or environmental toxins (such as alcohol), is linked to anti-social behaviour. Risks to the developing brain arise even before birth, in the form of agents such as tobacco, alcohol and other drugs, which may damage the foetus. A recent New Zeal...

3. [2021] NZEnvC 007 JJ Limited v Dunedin City Council [pdf, 246 KB]

   ...business currently operates across three separate sites adjacent to Gladstone Road South and the East Taieri Primary School. The applicant’s existing operations are on sites zoned Industrial and uses a temporary site zoned Rural and subject to Designation D419 in the 2GP. The existing site configuration requires the applicant to use the public road network for the delivery, testing, and demonstration of agricultural machinery. The applicant seeks a site in the Rural Zone on which a...

4. MK v Accident Compensation Corporation [2024] NZACC 45 (8 March 2024) [pdf, 460 KB]

   ...provided by the Act”, a claimant is nevertheless “responsible for his or her own rehabilitation to the extent practicable having regard to the consequences of his or her personal injury”. [62] Counsel submits that s 70 is reflective of a scheme designed to cushion the effects of the accident and not to provide a full indemnity. She refers to ACC v Nelson1 and the fact that s 70(b) mandates that the claimant is responsible for his or her own rehabilitation to the extent practi...

5. Victims of crime in the adult criminal justice system: a stocktake of the literature [pdf, 1.1 MB]

   Commissioned by Ministry of Justice Victims of crime in the adult criminal justice system: A stocktake of the literature by Dr Elaine Mossman October 2012 Contents Executive summary .................................................................................................... i Structure of the report ....................................................................................................... vi Part one: In

6. Proactive-release-OIA-review-Aug22.pdf [pdf, 30 MB]

   Hon Kris Faafoi Minister of Justice Proactive release – Briefing: Official Information Act 1982 – report back on targeted engagement and next steps Released: 7 December 2021 Initially released: 22 August 2020 The following documents have been proactively released by the Ministry of Justice. The initial release of this information in March 2020 included the Briefing and Attachment to the Briefing (documents 1& 2). The subsequent release in December 2021 included the Submis

7. Revictimisation-Report.pdf [pdf, 4.8 MB]

   ...in Aotearoa New Zealand, with an emphasis on intersectionality among risk factors, that is, where the co-occurrence of socio-demographic characteristics intensifies victimisation risk. Explaining RV and PV Explanations of RV and PV derive from environmental criminology theories of how offenders select targets. These theories shift the traditional criminological focus on the acquisition of an offender’s criminal propensity, to the situational factors at the time of the crime that pre...

8. [2024] NZEnvC 079 Maungaharuru-Tangitū Trust v Hastings District Council [pdf, 19 MB]

   ...Rakau pito: Pito tree.  Rakau Ttapu: Sacred tree.  Rangatira: Noble person.  Roto: Lake.  Taāngata Whenua: Local people.  Taonga: Treasure, something of particular value that is either made or natural (environmental).  Tauranga waka: Waka launching area.  Toka: Rock.  Toka tohi: Ceremonial stone, boundary marker.  Tuūpaāpaku: Body.  Urupaā: Burial ground.  Waahi Tapu: Sacred site.  Wahi pakanga: Wāhi Pakanga: Ba...

9. Evaluation of Whanau Protect (National Home Safety Service) 2022 [pdf, 1.6 MB]

   National Home Safety Service: Whānau Protect Evaluation Report 2022 Acknowledgements This report was written by Sue Allison and Tania Boyer from GravitasOPG. The quantitative data match of National Collective of Independent Women’s Refuges (NCIWR) administrative data and Police Recorded Crime and Victim Statistics (RCVS) was undertaken by the Ministry of Justice’s Sector Group . NCIWR provided anonymised collated administrative data. The authors

10. Rec-Recap-2023-Q1-FINAL.pdf [pdf, 889 KB]

    Recommendations Recap A summary of coronial recommendations and comments made between 1 January and 31 March 2023 Office of the Chief Coroner | 2023 (1) i Coroners’ recommendations and comments Coroners perform essential functions within our society. They inquire into a range of unexpected deaths to establish the identity of the person who has died and the cause and circumstances of their death. While inquiring into a deat