In this article Dr Juan Tauri responds to a claim made by a audience member that the new journal,... more In this article Dr Juan Tauri responds to a claim made by a audience member that the new journal, Decolonisation of Criminology and Justice, launched at AUT University, Auckland in June 2018, was part of the ‘white space’ we are supposed to be critiquing. The argument was that because it is part of a ‘white space’ that those affected by a rapacious academic criminology and criminal justice system, are unlikely to access it, or for their voices to be ‘heard’ in it. Tauri argues that this claim is an example of the construction of a strawman argument.
Journal of intellectual disabilities and offending behaviour, Dec 3, 2021
Purpose This qualitative research aims to explore staff perspectives on working effectively with ... more Purpose This qualitative research aims to explore staff perspectives on working effectively with people with intellectual disability who are in contact with the criminal justice system. Design/methodology/approach Taking a case study approach, staff working for a third sector community organisation were interviewed about the components of effective work with their customers. The staff supported people engaged in the Community Justice Program. Findings Staff consistently described relationship building as the most important part of their work. There were three components to relationship building: the process of relationship building, the elements of a high-quality staff–customer relationship and the staff skills needed to develop a good relationship. Originality/value This paper makes two contributions to the literature. First, it focuses our attention on a third sector organisation supporting people in contact with the justice system as opposed to a formal criminal justice agency. Second, the paper seeks to understand the processes and skills staff deploy to build a high-quality relationship with criminal justice-involved people with intellectual disability.
Over the past 30 years the restorative justice (RJ) movement has become increasingly accepted wit... more Over the past 30 years the restorative justice (RJ) movement has become increasingly accepted within the creases of formal justice systems everywhere, but most especially within the systems of settler‐colonial states. From a critical Indigenous perspective one especially powerful driver for the elevation of RJ to its current exalted place in state crime control, has been the purposeful utilisation of Indigenous cultural artefacts by the movement to market their wares. Utilising research on Indigenous peoples’ experiences of state‐centred RJ programmes, this article challenges claims made by RJ practitioners and state functionaries regarding the emancipatory potential of RJ practices for Indigenous peoples residing in settler colonial contexts.
Donna Awatere’s examination of whiteness within the Aotearoa New Zealand context, specifically wh... more Donna Awatere’s examination of whiteness within the Aotearoa New Zealand context, specifically white cultural imperialism, has largely been ignored in academic scholarship. For her, white culture, and its articulation through governance and policy, is the starting point and lens to understanding and addressing historical and contemporary Māori dispossession and ensuing strategies of racialized surveillance, control, and containment. In this essay, we argue that Awatere’s attention to past forms of genocide – mapping them to emerging forms of state confinement of Māori, which engender genocidal characteristics, and problematizing “whiteness” – situates the book Māori Sovereignty as an important text in the field of criminal justice, especially that which manifests in settler-colonial contexts.
Enriching Resource on African Languages Database, Oct 25, 2016
A clue to the inspiration for this special edition of the African Journal of Criminology and Just... more A clue to the inspiration for this special edition of the African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies can be found in its title, 'Indigenous Perspectives and Counter Colonial Criminologies'. In the late 2000s one of the guest editors' for this edition was advised to read 'Counter-Colonial Criminology: A Critique of Imperialist Reason' by Nigerian scholar Biko Agozino: a book that a friend and colleague described as "ground-breaking". Biko's papyrus, published in 2003, is considered by many Indigenous and critical justice commentators as a landmark critique of Western criminology (Oriola, 2006; Tauri, 2012a).
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, Aug 1, 1999
This paper provides an overview of the relationship between Maori and the criminal justice system... more This paper provides an overview of the relationship between Maori and the criminal justice system in New Zealand since Moana Jackson published “Maori and the Criminal Justice System: He Whaipaanga Hou” in 1988. Jackson argued that the cultural insensitivity and bias inherent in the criminal justice system, lies at the heart of the Maori over-representation problem. The focus of my paper is on the incorporation of Maori justice practices and philosophies within the family group conferencing forum established in 1989. The discussion of this initiative will take place within the framework of an evaluation of ‘bi-culturalism’ and the struggle by Maori to achieve autonomy in the realm of justice.
Indigenous criminology has developed since the start of the 21st century as a result of the regen... more Indigenous criminology has developed since the start of the 21st century as a result of the regeneration of Indigenous epistemologies and reinvigoration of Indigenous critique of the criminal justice practices of settler-colonial states. In stark contrast to Carlen’s call for criminology as a scientific art, Indigenous formulations—political, partisan, and subjective, reflective of the stated aims of activist scholars such as Agozino, Monture-Angus, Victor, Tauri, and Porter—are evangelical by necessity to hold the settler-colonial state accountable for the violence it perpetrates against Indigenous peoples, and to subject western criminologists to critical scrutiny for their historical and contemporary support for the state. This support manifests through the use of theories and research methodologies that silence Indigenous experiences of settler-colonial crime control, and approaches to crime and social harm, and through the discipline of criminology’s continued support for the state’s continued subjugation of Indigenes. The Indigenous critique challenges the Eurocentric nature of much western criminological analysis of Indigenous over-representation in criminal justice, especially in settler-colonial settings, which often lacks a theory of colonialism, reserving analysis for the recalcitrant native and their supposedly criminogenic culture. Also problematic is the tendency of many criminologists to utilise non-engaging methods for researching Indigenous peoples, a process that too often sidelines their experiences of crime control processes. In contrast, Indigenous scholars and their non-Indigenous allies propose an Indigenous variant of the discipline based on core principles that distinguish their activist scholarship from the mainstream, including rejecting the false dichotomy between objectivity and commitment, giving back by speaking truth to power, and making research real for Indigenous peoples.
In this article Dr Juan Tauri responds to a claim made by a audience member that the new journal,... more In this article Dr Juan Tauri responds to a claim made by a audience member that the new journal, Decolonisation of Criminology and Justice, launched at AUT University, Auckland in June 2018, was part of the ‘white space’ we are supposed to be critiquing. The argument was that because it is part of a ‘white space’ that those affected by a rapacious academic criminology and criminal justice system, are unlikely to access it, or for their voices to be ‘heard’ in it. Tauri argues that this claim is an example of the construction of a strawman argument.
Journal of intellectual disabilities and offending behaviour, Dec 3, 2021
Purpose This qualitative research aims to explore staff perspectives on working effectively with ... more Purpose This qualitative research aims to explore staff perspectives on working effectively with people with intellectual disability who are in contact with the criminal justice system. Design/methodology/approach Taking a case study approach, staff working for a third sector community organisation were interviewed about the components of effective work with their customers. The staff supported people engaged in the Community Justice Program. Findings Staff consistently described relationship building as the most important part of their work. There were three components to relationship building: the process of relationship building, the elements of a high-quality staff–customer relationship and the staff skills needed to develop a good relationship. Originality/value This paper makes two contributions to the literature. First, it focuses our attention on a third sector organisation supporting people in contact with the justice system as opposed to a formal criminal justice agency. Second, the paper seeks to understand the processes and skills staff deploy to build a high-quality relationship with criminal justice-involved people with intellectual disability.
Over the past 30 years the restorative justice (RJ) movement has become increasingly accepted wit... more Over the past 30 years the restorative justice (RJ) movement has become increasingly accepted within the creases of formal justice systems everywhere, but most especially within the systems of settler‐colonial states. From a critical Indigenous perspective one especially powerful driver for the elevation of RJ to its current exalted place in state crime control, has been the purposeful utilisation of Indigenous cultural artefacts by the movement to market their wares. Utilising research on Indigenous peoples’ experiences of state‐centred RJ programmes, this article challenges claims made by RJ practitioners and state functionaries regarding the emancipatory potential of RJ practices for Indigenous peoples residing in settler colonial contexts.
Donna Awatere’s examination of whiteness within the Aotearoa New Zealand context, specifically wh... more Donna Awatere’s examination of whiteness within the Aotearoa New Zealand context, specifically white cultural imperialism, has largely been ignored in academic scholarship. For her, white culture, and its articulation through governance and policy, is the starting point and lens to understanding and addressing historical and contemporary Māori dispossession and ensuing strategies of racialized surveillance, control, and containment. In this essay, we argue that Awatere’s attention to past forms of genocide – mapping them to emerging forms of state confinement of Māori, which engender genocidal characteristics, and problematizing “whiteness” – situates the book Māori Sovereignty as an important text in the field of criminal justice, especially that which manifests in settler-colonial contexts.
Enriching Resource on African Languages Database, Oct 25, 2016
A clue to the inspiration for this special edition of the African Journal of Criminology and Just... more A clue to the inspiration for this special edition of the African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies can be found in its title, 'Indigenous Perspectives and Counter Colonial Criminologies'. In the late 2000s one of the guest editors' for this edition was advised to read 'Counter-Colonial Criminology: A Critique of Imperialist Reason' by Nigerian scholar Biko Agozino: a book that a friend and colleague described as "ground-breaking". Biko's papyrus, published in 2003, is considered by many Indigenous and critical justice commentators as a landmark critique of Western criminology (Oriola, 2006; Tauri, 2012a).
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, Aug 1, 1999
This paper provides an overview of the relationship between Maori and the criminal justice system... more This paper provides an overview of the relationship between Maori and the criminal justice system in New Zealand since Moana Jackson published “Maori and the Criminal Justice System: He Whaipaanga Hou” in 1988. Jackson argued that the cultural insensitivity and bias inherent in the criminal justice system, lies at the heart of the Maori over-representation problem. The focus of my paper is on the incorporation of Maori justice practices and philosophies within the family group conferencing forum established in 1989. The discussion of this initiative will take place within the framework of an evaluation of ‘bi-culturalism’ and the struggle by Maori to achieve autonomy in the realm of justice.
Indigenous criminology has developed since the start of the 21st century as a result of the regen... more Indigenous criminology has developed since the start of the 21st century as a result of the regeneration of Indigenous epistemologies and reinvigoration of Indigenous critique of the criminal justice practices of settler-colonial states. In stark contrast to Carlen’s call for criminology as a scientific art, Indigenous formulations—political, partisan, and subjective, reflective of the stated aims of activist scholars such as Agozino, Monture-Angus, Victor, Tauri, and Porter—are evangelical by necessity to hold the settler-colonial state accountable for the violence it perpetrates against Indigenous peoples, and to subject western criminologists to critical scrutiny for their historical and contemporary support for the state. This support manifests through the use of theories and research methodologies that silence Indigenous experiences of settler-colonial crime control, and approaches to crime and social harm, and through the discipline of criminology’s continued support for the state’s continued subjugation of Indigenes. The Indigenous critique challenges the Eurocentric nature of much western criminological analysis of Indigenous over-representation in criminal justice, especially in settler-colonial settings, which often lacks a theory of colonialism, reserving analysis for the recalcitrant native and their supposedly criminogenic culture. Also problematic is the tendency of many criminologists to utilise non-engaging methods for researching Indigenous peoples, a process that too often sidelines their experiences of crime control processes. In contrast, Indigenous scholars and their non-Indigenous allies propose an Indigenous variant of the discipline based on core principles that distinguish their activist scholarship from the mainstream, including rejecting the false dichotomy between objectivity and commitment, giving back by speaking truth to power, and making research real for Indigenous peoples.
Crime, Justice and Social Democracy is a provocative and thoughtful collection of timely reflecti... more Crime, Justice and Social Democracy is a provocative and thoughtful collection of timely reflections on the state of social democracy and its inextricable links to crime and justice. Authored by some of the world's leading thinkers from the UK, US, Canada and Australia, with a preface from Professor David Garland of New York University, this volume provides a powerful social democratic critique of neoliberal regimes of governance and crime control on an international scale. Social democratic values raise broad questions about government, ethics, and the exercise of power in criminal justice institutions; each chapter here engages with how this might occur and with what consequences. The contributions to this volume, while critical and hard hitting, also boldly envision a more socially just criminal justice politic.
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