About time
Subtitle: turning people away from a life of crime and reducing re-offending : report from the Department of Corrections to the Minister of Corrections
Publisher: Dept of Corrections
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Wellington, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 63
ISBN-13: 9780478113303
Subjects: Corrections; Evaluation; Imprisonment; Alternatives to imprisonment; Crime prevention; Recidivism; Forecasting; Recidivists; Rehabilitation
Description: Report from the Department of Corrections to the Minister of Corrections. Represents the beginning of a process to reduce the risk of imprisonment. It suggests strategies - rehabilitation programmes for serious driving offenders, drug and alcohol treatment for high risk offenders and day reporting centres for offenders aged between 15 and 18 years.
Notes: "Kotahi anō te kaupapa; ko te oranga o te iwi."

"May 2001."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 57-60).
Table of contents: title: Statistics on imprisonment in New Zealand and internationally; title: Prevention; title: Alternative sentencing : Day Reporting Centres for teenagers who have received a first adult conviction; title: Rehabilitation; title: Reducing the imprisonment of Maori.