Title Indigenous Courts, Self-Determination and Criminal Justice

Edition First edition Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2018

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Description 1 online resource : text file, PDF Series Indigenous Peoples and the Law Contents Maori and criminality -- Maori and tikanga -- Maori and current criminal justice initiatives -- Constitutional frameworks : the Treaty of Waitangi -- Constitutional frameworks : the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples -- Initiatives in comparative jurisdictions -- Tikanga Maori and therapeutic jurisprudence -- A new vision Summary "In New Zealand, as well as in Australia, Canada and other comparable jurisdictions, Indigenous peoples comprise a significantly disproportionate percentage of the prison population. For example, Maori, who comprise 15% of New Zealand's population, make up 50% of its prisoners. For Maori women, the figure is 60%. These statistics have, moreover, remained more or less the same for at least the past thirty years. With New Zealand as its focus, this book explores how the fact that Indigenous peoples are more likely than any other ethnic group to be apprehended, arrested, prosecuted, convicted and incarcerated, might be alleviated. Taking seriously the rights to culture and to self-determination contained in the Treaty of Waitangi, in many comparable jurisdictions (including Australia, Canada, the United States of America, Bolivia and Ecuador), and also in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the book make the case for an Indigenous court founded on Indigenous conceptions of proper conduct, punishment, and behavior. More specifically, the book draws on contemporary notions of 'therapeutic jurisprudence' and 'restorative justice' in order to argue that such a court would offer an effective way to ameliorate the disproportionate incarceration of Indigenous peoples."--Provided by publisher Subject Māori (New Zealand people) -- Criminal justice system Customary law courts -- New Zealand Criminal justice, Administration of -- New Zealand. Māori (New Zealand people) -- Legal status, laws, etc Therapeutic jurisprudence -- New Zealand Criminal justice, Administration of Customary law courts Māori (New Zealand people) -- Criminal justice system Māori (New Zealand people) -- Legal status, laws, etc. Therapeutic jurisprudence New Zealand Form Electronic book ISBN 9781351239622 1351239627 9781351239615 1351239619 9781351239592 1351239597

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