Antje DeckertAntje Deckert

Dr Antje Deckert is a senior lecturer in criminology at AUT

Mother or villain? How Māori women offenders are portrayed in news reporting

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Criminologist Antje Deckert has just completed a two-year study of how women offenders are portrayed in New Zealand newspapers. The results show that journalists are telling very different stories abut Māori and Pākehā.  That our criminal justice system is in desperate need of reform and that we need to reduce the number of Māori individuals … Read more

Piling cash into boosting police numbers is pointless, and this graph proves it

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The evidence shows that a ‘tough on crime’ approach is a posture, not a solution, writes criminologist Antje Deckert. In 2011, when Bill English was Finance Minister, he declared that New Zealand’s prisons were “a moral and fiscal failure”. Five years later, the National government has announced that it will recruit 1,100 new police officers … Read more