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'Ineffective, expensive, inequitable' - expert on Nats' crime policy (www.1news.co.nz)

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"AUT law dean and parole board member Khylee Quince said National was proposing 'retrograde' steps."

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[–] zl4bv@lemmy.nz 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

From the article:

She was on board with increasing access to rehabilitation, but stressed it doesn't need to happen in prison.

Studies have shown that jail time does not reduce a criminal’s future risk of crime and may slightly increase it. Meanwhile, rehabilitation inside or outside of prison has been shown to reduce the risk of future crime by 29 percent.

Crime rates in NZ have been steadily decreasing for years. It seems to me by increasing access to rehab we will continue to see better outcomes for society as a whole.

[–] z2k_@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 years ago

That’s probably true on just jail time but we can say that in the case of Singapore, severely punishing crime does have a big affect on decreasing crime.