Need more votes? Get tough on crime

November 1, 2024

Need more votes? Get tough on crime

Mt Eden Prison, Auckland. Photo: Ryan Bos

The politics of imprisonment: In a multimedia feature, Te Waha Nui journalist Ryan Bos talks to experts about the actual impacts of the Government's tough-on-crime policies, and finds it's in politicians' interests to talk them up but they actually make things worse.

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'Most New Zealanders would say violent crime is increasing for decades, when in reality estimates suggest that over ... 30 years, violent crime is decreasing.' - University of Canterbury political-science and international-relations lecturer Lin Mussell.

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