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Māori face harsher sentences than NZ Europeans for similar drink-driving offences – with lasting consequences

  • Written by Alexander Plum, Senior Research Fellow, New Zealand Policy Research Institute, Auckland University of Technology
Māori face harsher sentences than NZ Europeans for similar drink-driving offences – with lasting consequencesSandra Mu/Getty Images

People of Māori descent account for just a fifth of Aotearoa’s population, but are overrepresented at every stage of the criminal justice system. They comprise 37% of people prosecuted by police, 45% of those convicted and 52% of the prison population.

Such statistics, however, aren’t easily explained....

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