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 eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Oranga Tamariki report finds ever more negative outcomes for Māori from interactions with state care and youth justice systems www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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....

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 www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

"...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 newsroom.co.nz/2024/12/09/a...

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?

Boot camps always fail us. To believe they are the solution is frankly unhinged Please make it stop newsroom.co.nz/2024/03/10/p...

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

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

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

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 www.rnz.co.nz/news/abusein...

Apology without full acknowledgement and just action is worse than no apology at all www.rnz.co.nz/news/abusein...

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. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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 😀 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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

"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? newsroom.co.nz/2024/11/15/r...

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