Crime, Law and Justice in New Zealand
Author(s): Greg Newbold
Crime and Justice in New Zealand examines the recent crime trends and the social, political, and legal changes in New Zealand from the end of the twentieth century to the present. Serving as the only New Zealand-specific criminal justice text, this book takes a direct look at what is unique about the country's criminal justice system and recent crime trends. Crime rates peaked in the early 1990s and have fallen since. Newbold considers why this happened through factors such as economy, ethnic composition, changing cultural trends, and legislative developments in policing and criminal justice. He unpacks various types of crime separately-violent crime, property crime, drug crime, gang crime, organised crime, etc.-and examines each in terms of the various complex factors affecting it, using illustrative examples from recent high-profile cases.
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Many New Zealanders have their own theories on crime, its causes, and solutions, generally based on a limited understanding of the complexities of the topic. Greg Newbold's detailed research complements his innate personal knowledge of the criminal world, and provides the reader with material which can only improve the quality of debate on this fascinating subject. Greg O'Connor, President, New Zealand Police Association
Greg Newbold is a well-known and respected author and professor in New Zealand. He is currently a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Canterbury. He has recently served as the Department Chair and the Programme Coordinator. He has published several books and numerous research monographs, and been a contributing author on many edited volumes. He received his PhD from the University of Auckland in sociology.
1. Introduction 2. Dishonesty 3. Gender 4. Sex 5. Violence 6. Youth and ethnicity 7. Drugs 8. Gangs and organised crime 9. Corrections and crime control
General Fields
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- : Routledge
- : Routledge
- : 0.521631
- : 01 June 2016
- : 235mm X 187mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Greg Newbold
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 364.993
- : 320
- : 49 black white illustrations, 49 black white line drawings