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Website: Department of Corrections
Email: info@corrections.govt.nz
Phone: 04 460 3000
Last Publication Date: 1 Jan 2012
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…
This review covers: trends in youth offending in New Zealand, developmental considerations, interventions and youth offending, characteristics of effective programmes, and specific responsivity (2012).
Last Publication Date: 1 Jan 2011
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…
Last Publication Date: 1 Dec 2009
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…
Last Publication Date: 1 Jan 2009
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…
Last Publication Date: 15 Sep 2008
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…
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…
Last Publication Date: 13 Jun 2008
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…
Last Publication Date: 13 May 2008
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…
Last Publication Date: 1 Jan 2008
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…