In New Zealand as well as in Australia Canada and other comparable jurisdictions Indigenous peoples comprise a significantly disproportionate percentage of the prison population. For example Maori who comprise 15% of New Zealandâs population make up 50% of its prisoners. For Maori women the figure is 60%. These statistics have moreover remained more or less the same for at least the past thirty years. With New Zealand as its focus this book explores how the fact that Indigenous peoples are more likely than any other ethnic group to be apprehended arrested prosecuted convicted and incarcerated might be alleviated. Taking seriously the rights to culture and to self-determination contained in the Treaty of Waitangi in many comparable jurisdictions (including Australia Canada the United States of America) and also in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples the book make the case for an Indigenous court founded on Indigenous conceptions of proper conduct punishment and behavior. More specifically the book draws on contemporary notions of âtherapeutic jurisprudenceâ and ârestorative justiceâ in order to argue that such a court would offer an effective way to ameliorate the disproportionate incarceration of Indigenous peoples. . Language: English