Criminology Collective

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02/03/2022

We are delighted to announce that the first issue of the fourth volume of Decolonization of Criminology and Justice has been published today.

https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/dcj/issue/view/4

It features three RESEARCH ARTICLES

1. Unearthing Justices: Mapping 500+ Indigenous Grassroots Initiatives for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two Spirit+ by Vicki Chartrand

2. Reflections on Decolonization and X_aaydaG_a Tll Yahda TllG_uhlG_a: a Haida Justice System by Michaela Mary McGuire

3. The 2020 Cannabis Referendum: Māori Voter Support, Racialized Policing, and the Criminal Justice System by Craig Dempster & Adele N. Norris

and two BOOK REVIEWS

1. Browne-Marshall, G. J. (2020). She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power 1619 to 1969. Reviewed by LaQuana Askew.

2. Kitossa, T. (Ed.). (2021). Appealing because he is appalling: Black masculinities, colonialism, and erotic racism. Reviewed by Martez Files.

We thank all contributors!

A CALL FOR PAPERS included in the editorial.

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Warm wishes

Antje Deckert and Juan Tauri

21/01/2022

Brilliant --- AUT have a permanent job in Criminology (L/SL) going. Chance to join some stellar folk. Closes 3 Feb. Get in!

https://careers.aut.ac.nz/jobdetails?ajid=9m0Cb&fbclid=IwAR3sQ68tQXkLjwemoegrBu7d_gywZtzp7uopyboOL8U_lkxTJkTYQfmko2w

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18/12/2021

Fifty years is a long time to wait for justice, especially when those who had the power to act failed to do so.

06/12/2021

Prof Chelsea Watego 👍

Presented by Professor Chelsea Watego.While the calls for abolition grow louder in the aftermath of the renewed global Black Lives Matter movement, Chelsea W...

02/12/2021

E hoa mā - it is the FINAL webinar for our Reimagining Justice series!

We couldn’t be more stoked to have the legendary Professor Tracey McIntosh joining us to talk about reindigensation, transformation and abolition.

This is our last event for our programme, and our last event for the year - you can join using the link in the comments below

See you Tuesday!

29/11/2021

The review will likely take years, and has been brought forward due to the number of claims being made regarding justice issues.

17/11/2021

https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/events/2021/11/restorative-roadmaps-to-the-promotion-of-peaceful-and-inclusive-societies-and-justice-for-all2

If nothing else, the last decade has confirmed a world reeling from human-led harm. There is an inevitability to our human capacity for bringing individual, collective and systemic suffering, trauma, and injustice to our human colleagues as well as non-human counterparts existing in the natural envi...

17/11/2021

'The End. Punishment, populism and the threat to democratic order' --- Emeritus Professor John Pratt's valedictory lecture.
Presented at Victoria University of Wellington on 9th November 2021.

'The End. Punishment, populism and the threat to democratic order' is Emeritus Professor John Pratt's valedictory lecture.Presented at Victoria University of...

11/11/2021

Really important report out today on the racism of care, the dismantling of Māori communities by the state, the violence and harms experienced by Māori, the need for resistance and transformation

Home Library Listen Hāhā-uri, Hāhā-tea – Māori Involvement in State Care 1950-1999 Crown Response to the Abuse in Care Inquiry and Ihi Research presented the Royal Commission with this independent research report about Māori in State care.The research was undertaken by Ihi Research and was c...

11/11/2021

NZ friends --- here's a survey on prisons to get involved with

Find and participate in consultations run by the Ministry of Justice.

10/11/2021

Good!

Justice Minister Kris Faafoi is pushing ahead with moves to repeal the "three strikes" law, saying it is an anomaly in the justice system that has led to "absurd and perverse" outcomes.