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Criminal Justice In New Zealand
Paperback Edition: 1
Criminal Justice in NZ is the first comprehensive account of NZ approaches to criminal justice issues to be published in this country. The book provides an account of a complex range of interconnected constituencies & procedures that together constitute the NZ criminal justice system. The
book emphasises the lack of any coherent philosophy connecting the many stakeholders of criminal justice, so that law & justice outcomes are not uniformly fair as regards the different groups of people that they impact, inparticular young people, Maori, those with mental impairments, and women.
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Criminal Justice in NZ describes the operation of foundational theories & procedures, including the trial process, criminal procedure, policing, sentencing & provision for victims, as well as addressing a number of contemporary issues such as the role of the media in defining justice issues & the emegence of alternative ways of doing justice.
This text is aimed at a broad audience: law and other social science students studying the operation of criminal justice in NZ, lawyers, Judges, policy makers, law & sociology academics, plus lay readers seeking a more informed understanding of criminal justice in NZ.
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Pages : 454
Publisher : LexisNexis Butterworths, NZ
Publication date : 2007-11-01
Subjects: Non-fiction, Business / Law, NZ Law, NZ Criminal Law & Procedure