Story: Violent crime

More links and websites

• Ara Poutama Aotearoa

  The Department of Corrections website.

• Crime and justice

  Statistics New Zealand information about crime and justice and reports on court charges and outcomes.

• Crime and punishment

  Stories of crime and punishment in New Zealand, from NZ History.

• Crime.co.nz

  A website with reports on high-profile criminal cases in New Zealand.

• Data and statistics – New Zealand Police

  Crime statistics publications by the New Zealand Police.

• Research and data – Ministry of Justice

  Crime statistics publications by the Ministry of Justice.

• Invercargill’s forgotten horror

  Sharon Reece’s 2014 article on a 1908 mass killing in Invercargill.

More suggestions and sources

• Gilbert, Jarrod and Greg Newbold (eds). Criminal justice: a New Zealand introduction. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2017.
• McDonald, Elisabeth, ‘From “real rape” to real justice? Reflections on the efficacy of more than 35 years of feminism, activism and law reform’. Victoria University of Wellington Law Review: Special Issue in Honour of Harriette Vine, First Woman Law Graduate 1913 Volume 45, no.3 (2014).
• McDonald, Elisabeth and Yvette Tinsley (eds). From ‘real rape’ to real justice: prosecuting rape in New Zealand. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2011
• Newbold, Greg. Crime in New Zealand. Palmerston North: Dunmore, 2000.
• Newbold, Greg. ‘Gun control policy in New Zealand.’ New Zealand Sociology Volume 12, no. 2 (1997): 183–212.
• Newbold, Greg. The problem of prisons: corrections reform in New Zealand since 1840. Wellington: Dunmore, 2007.
• Newbold, Greg, and J. Cross. ‘Domestic violence and pro-arrest policy.’ Social Policy Journal of New Zealand Issue 33 (2008): 1–14.
• Newbold, Greg. Crime, law and justice in New Zealand. New York: Routledge, 2016.
• Stanley, Elizabeth, Trevor Bradley and Sarah Monod de Froidville. The Aotearoa Handbook of Criminology. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2021.
• Young, Sherwood. Guilty on the gallows: famous capital crimes of New Zealand. Wellington: Grantham House, 1998.