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Department of Corrections | Ara Poutama Aotearoa

Website: Department of Corrections

Email: info@corrections.govt.nz

Phone: 04 460 3000

Tai Aroha

A formative evaluation of the 'Tai Aroha' residential community-based programme for high-risk offenders (2012). Since October 2007, the number of community-based sentencing options available to the…

Youth Therapeutic Programmes

This review covers: trends in youth offending in New Zealand, developmental considerations, interventions and youth offending, characteristics of effective programmes, and specific responsivity (2012).

Reconviction Rates of Sex Offenders: Five year follow-up study

  The current study is intended to assist the Department of Corrections in meeting its strategic objectives regarding the management and rehabilitation of offenders. It provides…

What works now? A review and update of research evidence relevant to offender rehabilitation practices within the Department of Corrections

A substantial body of research evidence, known as the “What Works” literature, was influential in the design of the Department’s current sentence management framework.  This literature…

Reconviction Patterns of offenders managed in the community: A 60-months follow-up analysis

This report is the second in a series of reports which summarise patterns of reconviction (over 5 years) amongst almost 35000 offenders who started community sentences…

Reconviction patterns of released prisoners: A 60-months follow-up analysis

I am pleased to introduce this report as it provides a wealth of information on re-offending patterns amongst released prisoners. The statistical information in this report…

Reconviction patterns of released prisoners: A 48-months follow-up analysis

Reducing re-offending is an important outcome objective for most correctional services. As such, measures of recidivism, particularly reconviction and re-imprisonment rates, are key indicators of those…

Maori Offenders and Home Detention: Analysis of a One-Year Cohort

In 2006 the Department of Corrections was directed by the Government to investigate the use of Home Detention with respect to differences in the rate at…

Over-representation of Maori in the criminal justice system

Māori are disproportionately represented in criminal justice statistics to an alarming degree. This paper attempts to shed light on why this is so. It examines the…

Reconviction patterns of offenders managed in the community: A 48-months follow-up analysis

This report summarises patterns of reconviction and imprisonment, over a 48 months period, amongst almost 35,000 offenders who started community sentences (Supervision, Community Work) and orders…