November 02, 2014
Rogernomics still felt in prison muster
Justice reform advocate Kim Workman says the Rogernomics reforms of the 1980s was a major contributor to the persistently high number of Maori in the criminal justice system.
He intends to explore the topic as the 2015 Stout Research Fellow.
He says the shift in government thinking in the 1980s from welfarism to neoliberalism and a deep seated faith in the markets had as profound an effect on Maori as the mass shift to the cities in the 1950s and 60s.
The former Maori Affairs regional manager saw the changes first hand as the government’s social impact coordinator in the Bay of Plenty.
Kim Workman says his time at Victoria University’s Stout Research Centre will give him a chance to come up with something with a longer shelf life than the blogs and policy papers he has been producing as spokeseperson for Rethinking Crime and Punishment.
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