Māori and Prison

McIntosh, Tracey; Workman, Kim

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-55747-2_48

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“…Mental health systems are embedded within, and alongside, further systemic and structural oppressions – contexts that limit and constrain young Māori men’s ability to be self-determining. Many grow up in areas facing economic hardship (Simpson et al., 2017), and experience serious discrimination in education (Ministry of Education, 2013) employment (Rangiheuea, 2010), and the justice systems (McIntosh & Workman, 2017). This marginalisation across multiple systems is not accidental but deliberate, reflecting the ongoing legacy of colonisation within Aotearoa/New Zealand and the politicised nature of life as an Indigenous person in a colonial system (Maddison, 2013).…”

Section: Inequities In Healthmentioning

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He kākano ahau – identity, Indigeneity and wellbeing for young Māori (Indigenous) men in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Hamley

Grice

2021

Feminism & Psychology

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This article examines how dominant Eurocentric approaches to mental health are unable to address the diverse needs of young Māori men in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Drawing on current health inequities facing Māori and young Māori men in particular, this commentary explores how colonisation has impacted young Māori men in negative ways. Through shaping current health structures in Aotearoa/New Zealand, dominant Eurocentric approaches foreground individualised conceptualisations of Māori ill-health, and then apply predominantly Western therapies to resolve this. These approaches are ill-equipped to address the intergenerational and structural issues which are at the root of mental health disparities for young Māori men. This article adds to a growing body of Indigenous psychology literature that speaks to the inadequacies within (mental) health systems for addressing the ongoing challenges that Māori experience due to colonisation. It further highlights how the intersections among ethnicity/race, class, age and masculinity for Māori men are shaped by colonial discourses. These inadequacies reflect a broader issue of the constraints placed on Māori self-determination by the colonial systems of power in Aotearoa/New Zealand. The article closes by proposing some alternative approaches to supporting Māori wellbeing that centre the needs and aspirations of Māori.

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He kākano ahau – identity, Indigeneity and wellbeing for young Māori (Indigenous) men in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Hamley

Grice

2021

Feminism & Psychology

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“…Contemporary imprisonment in New Zealand is shaped by its “ethnic toxicity” (McIntosh and Workman, 2017, p. 725). McIntosh and Workman (2017) state that the crisis of Māori imprisonment is not only complex, but it is also sustained and embedded. In highlighting this toxicity, it is crucial to extend examinations of how whiteness is normalized in New Zealand crime reporting via colorblind strategies wherein “it not only subsumes other categories—of class, gender, heterosexuality, for example—but “it also masks whiteness” as a category (Munshi et al, 2014, p. 98).…”

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Public Attitudes Toward New Prisons in New Zealand and Deficit Narratives: A Quantitative Survey

Norris

Lipsey

2018

International Criminal Justice Review

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The imprisonment rate in New Zealand ranks seventh among the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Yet the imprisonment of Indigenous people is on par with the United States, which has the world’s highest incarceration rate. Almost 70% of the prison population in New Zealand is comprised of people racialized as non-White. In 2016, the National Government proposed to spend $2.5 billion over a 5-year period to build new prisons (1,500 prison beds) to accommodate a growing prison population. This study assessed public attitudes toward the need for more prisons and the equity of treatment of individuals within the criminal justice system. Findings from a 2016 and 2017 quantitative survey of 5,000 respondents each year revealed that roughly half of the respondents believed the proposed spending for new prisons to be extremely to somewhat necessary. A large proportion of respondents also believed Māori and Pākehā, if convicted of the same crime, are treated similarly within the criminal justice system. New Zealand scholars have critiqued news media coverage of contentious sociopolitical issues, such as crime and prisons, for employing tactics that have worked to construct a morally and culturally deficit “Other” while normalizing whiteness, rendering it invisible and raceless. This article concludes that this process masks racial disparities of individuals located within the criminal justice system and preserves the ideal that prisons are a normal function of the social landscape.

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“…Such responses allow NZ to internationally market a commitment to indigenous rights while taking no substantive actions to change realities for Māori (Lightfoot 2012;Toki 2011 The units brought some positives for prisoners-such as allowing engagement with te reo and learning more about tikanga-but these individualised responses, decontextualised from the impacts and legacies of colonisation, failed to prioritise the basic principles of Māori culture (for further discussion, see McIntosh and Workman 2017;Mihaere 2015). Yet, as Kaikōrero also identified, the NZ Government represents these initiatives as promoting indigenous rights.…”

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The Problems and Promise of International Rights in the Challenge to Māori Imprisonment

Stanley

Mihaere

2019

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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This article draws upon extensive primary research involving substantive documentary analysis of United Nations (UN) reports and New Zealand (NZ) debates over the last 20 years, and interviews with senior Māori professionals, to consider the role of international human rights standards and processes in the challenge to Māori imprisonment. It shows that overrepresentation is carefully managed by the NZ state in four ways: (i) a perpetual representation of Māori as the offenders; (ii) the selective endorsement of rights, such that discriminatory criminal justice operations are normalised; (iii) a pervasive human rights ritualism within UN reporting processes; and (iv) the legitimisation of imprisonment and inequalities through the international rights system. Notwithstanding these problems, Māori remain alive to the potential of challenging imprisonment through engagement with international rights frameworks. They indicate the need for a tripartite approach of reforms, decolonising acts and abolitionist strategies in doing so.

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Māori and Prison

Cited by 39 publications

References 6 publications

He kākano ahau – identity, Indigeneity and wellbeing for young Māori (Indigenous) men in Aotearoa/New Zealand

He kākano ahau – identity, Indigeneity and wellbeing for young Māori (Indigenous) men in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Public Attitudes Toward New Prisons in New Zealand and Deficit Narratives: A Quantitative Survey

The Problems and Promise of International Rights in the Challenge to Māori Imprisonment

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