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New stuff on this site

Things that have been added in the last month or so..

Dr Deborah Hilterman a Victim Impact Statement from a domestic abuse victim

A downloadable version of our DVD "New Zealand – A land fit for Criminals – why?" is now available
for broadband DSL/cable users here (42 Mb, 320 kb/sec) , and
for dialup users here (6 Mb, 48 kb/sec)
These are in wmv format, playable in most media players

Newsletter Nineteen May 2007 (PDF only) Chairman's report-Optimistic!, The Travesty of Bail, Proactive Mayors, Advancing Victims' Rights Conference 2008, NZ a land fit for Criminals, No Tools in the Tool Box, Christchurch Police draw "line in the sand", The Liberal Disaster, Ida Hawkins, Thumbs Up/Down, Select Committees, Alarming Teenage Crime figures, Three Strikes Will Save Lives, 2008 Golf Tournament, Our Memebers have their say, Thank You

Newsletter Eighteen November 2007 (PDF only) Strength to Strength, Reclaim our Streets, Tough prisons work, Three Strikes, SST in Arizona, Accountability, Soft Options/ Toughen Up, Advancing Victims Conference 2007, Is Government funding failure, Youth Offending, SST in 2008, Fundraising Day

The Novembner 2007 Newsletter has been rather delayed, sorry! Both are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format for now, but we hope to get them up on the site as web pages soon

The film the Mongrel Mob didn't want you to see - the Ross Kemp documentary on the Mongrel Mob which TVNZ were unable to screen is available online.

Submission on the Police Act Review

Submission on the Disclosure to Court of Defendants’ previous convictions, similar offending, and bad character to the Law Commission as the result of a discussion paper.

David Garretts Draft Proposal for a Three Strikes Law that addresses criticisms made of such laws implemented in the USA, while still incapacitating repeat violent offenders.

New York Reprise A personal account of a changed city, by our webmaster who recently had the pleasure of a short stay there.

A Land Fit for Criminals This comprehensive and frankly outstanding book is by former British probation officer David Fraser, who has over thirty years experience of Britain's justice and prison systems, and gives an account of the ideologically driven changes over the last fifty years and the disatrous results, backed by copious statistics and graphs

And Who is to be Invited?
An article by our legal advisor David Garrett about the amendment to the Parole Act 2007 that very nearly slipped "under the radar" and would have severely compromised the ability of victims to make submissions before Parole boards.

The Treatment Controversy A debate that arose from a comment Garth made about the medical treatment of Jason Reihana, a response to that from a member of the public, and a reply by the webmaster

A Korean summary page has now been added, and we are in the process of arranging a Korean speaking contact. A machine translation link that allows people to be able to read the rest of the site in their own language has been added to the Korean and Chinese language summary pages. Summary pages in Hindi, Farsi and Arabic are being arranged currently.

A list of Contact people by areas of specialisation or interest has been added so that you no longer have to trawl through our regional contacts to find our youth offending or drink driving specialists