Demand action from the ESC: petition to end complicity We, criminologists and criminal justice scholars, are alarmed by several recent decisions by the European Society of Criminology Executive Board and Eurocrim local organizing and scientific committee ...

The European Society of Criminology is normalizing war crime, crimes against humanity and genocide. We demand action from the ESC: please sign the petition to end complicity and circulate widely
@europeangroup.bsky.social @critcrim.bsky.social

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Oranga Tamariki report finds stark outcomes for Māori in state care system The Independent Children's Monitor has found Māori children overrepresented in Oranga Tamariki's systems, with outcomes as they grow up painting a "paint a stark picture".

Oranga Tamariki report finds ever more negative outcomes for Māori from interactions with state care and youth justice systems

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Thank you!

Thank you 😊

I submitted my book, Tolerating state violence, to Routledge this week. Time for a celebratory cup of tea!
Should be out later 2025. Whoop!!

Waikanae Beach sunset is on fire

NZ has just ignored Royal Commission and UN recommendations, and survivors' pleas. There will be no independent redress scheme. Nothing yet for faith-based survivors. All let down once more

Pīwakawaka on the line

This incisive analysis of state violence in Aotearoa and the performative ignorance of our state officials, written by the hugely respected criminologist @proflizzystanley.bsky.social & her colleagues, is one of my very best reads of 2024. It's a blinder. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Thankyou 😍

Auckland foodbanks face closure, reducing services as funding to stop "I'm worried. I know hundreds of thousands of Aucklanders rely on the mission for food and I know what it means when people don't have enough food."

Unfathomable in its meanness, lack of basic human care (in the wake of problems caused by govt policies) and disregard of dangerous social impacts.

Scrooge politics for the wealthy and sorted

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Arts don’t just decorate knowledge, they deepen it Former poet laureate Selina Tusitala Marsh on funding cuts to arts and social sciences ... "Some discoveries shake the earth. While others whisper of their worth"

"...they’re cutting funding to the very disciplines where Māori and Pasifika researchers are most strongly represented. This isn’t just about disciplines – it’s about who gets to research, whose knowledge counts, whose stories matter": Selina Tusitala Marsh
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The Side Eye’s Two New Zealands: The Table Why are we so bad at talking about wealth inequality?

Summer revisit: The richest 10% of New Zealanders hold more than half the country’s wealth. The poorer half of the population, meanwhile, holds just 2%. So why are we still so reluctant to talk about wealth inequality?

Am going alrightie x

Gosh, they're a lucky lot x

Dr Elizabeth Stanley: Putting the boot in Opinion from Victoria University of Wellington: As the ink dries on the Royal Commission’s report in abuse in state care, what must it be like for survivors to witness the Government's direction on bo...

Boot camps always fail us. To believe they are the solution is frankly unhinged

Please make it stop

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It is startling to see the shifts towards authoritarianism ...limiting pluralism, fixating on 'problem' groups, expanding law n order, extending non-transparent decision-making, protecting dominant economic-political interests...everyday, there's another contribution

Marsden Fund refocused for science with a purpose Minister of Science, Innovation and Technology Judith Collins today announced the Government has updated the Marsden Fund to focus on core scientific research that helps lift our economic growth and c...

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NZ govt has removed the humanities & soc sciences from main independent funding (Marsden). Now focused on 'economic benefit' projects

Extraordinary in its ideological focus; lack of understanding about how economy, politics, arts and socio-cultures intersect; and disregard of quality of life in NZ

For New Zealanders - this from Peter Dunne is critical and I can not stress it enough- #ToituTeTiriti #nzpol

Oil and gas lobby asks government to underwrite fossil fuel exploration, minister 'considering options' A fossil fuel body is warmly praising the government's "no nonsense" draft emissions plan.

A government being led by the nose by lobbyists into a particularly stupid form of corporate welfare. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Abuse in care: Ministers raised concerns about 'needing to lower expectations' ahead of apology New documents reveal a meeting in which senior ministers brought up "being careful about what we commit to".

The low expectations of how the NZ state will respond to mass violence in care settings are getting lower by the day

What a pattern of protectionism and injustice

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Abuse in care survivors deflated as coalition government misses deadline The Royal Commission gave the government until last Sunday to publish responses to its 138 recommendations. That has now been and gone.

Apology without full acknowledgement and just action is worse than no apology at all

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Screenshot from the link article: “Such closing of ranks seems almost ubiquitous. Richard Walton, the commander accused with Lambert of involvement in spying on the Stephen Lawrence campaign, retired just after the IPCC concluded he would have had a "a case to answer for discreditable conduct", avoiding potential disciplinary proceedings. Did he shuffle off into obscurity? No. He authored a report by the dark-money junktank Policy Exchange, calling for stricter penalties for environmental protesters. His recommendations were adopted by the government and incorporated into the draconian 2022 Police Act. So while the spy cops face no consequences, peaceful protesters, on his recommendation, now receive massive prison sentences.”

The disgusting levels of impunity and cover up for appalling behaviour by Metropolitan Police officers over decades means the only rational response is not to trust them or the ministers and officials who enable them.

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An open letter about the future of The Spinoff An important announcement from the CEO, the editor and the founder of The Spinoff.<br />

There is time to act, but not much time. Please read this and support The Spinoff. thespinoff.co.nz/media/28-11-...

“Performing ignorance of state violence in Aotearoa New Zealand” is now published in the Journal of Criminology.
Whoop! Thanks to fabulous co-authors, reviewers, editors, admin 😀

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A child at 10:
· Loses 4 baby teeth a year
· Knows the complete date
· Can name the months of the yr in order
·Can read & understand a paragraph of complex sentences
·Has developed skills in addition, subtraction
·Has some skills in multiplying & division,
And, in Aust, can go to prison
#RaiseTheAge

A truly courageous piece on stalking and violent harassment, and how our institutions do not provide safety or protections

Rocket Lab's Māhia launches linked to Israeli military intelligence Space Minister Judith Collins is urged to revoke or decline Rocket Lab applications with possible links to the war in Gaza, writes Andrew Bevin.

"New Zealand-founded Rocket Lab has contracts to launch satellites for geospatial intelligence firms BlackSky Technology, Capella Space and HawkEye 360, all of which have links to the Israeli Ministry of Defense"

What is going on in the Māhia peninsula?
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