Posts by Sacha
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Up Front: P.A. Story, in reply to Sayana,
The alternate realities increasingly interact with each other
Craig may however oppose any role for Anna Torv
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Up Front: P.A. Story, in reply to Emma Hart,
St Richie's winky?
did you say Whisky? From a certain store trapped in the red zone, prehaps? Our host may approve such a plot element..
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Hard News: Like Minds, in reply to Rex Widerstrom,
conditions you are obliged to report
Putting the obligation on the wrong party, surely. Protecting the vulnerable should be a basic service ingredient. Though assuming that a particular condition always implies the same set of needs to be met is a mistake doctors and well-meaning policymakers often make. Rather not add cops to that list.
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Hard News: Like Minds, in reply to Rex Widerstrom,
one would hope cops would receive some training
That's all you need. Otherwise you're heading for unpleasant territory.
uneasy round issues of attaching labels
Quite.
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Hard News: Like Minds, in reply to Russell Brown,
It'd be great to have some better research to refer to
Quite. Governments, advocates and allies have had a decade since the NZ Disability Strategy was adopted to progress its Objective 10 about research and statistics.
However, disability is still not included as an identifying and analytical factor in any of the regular public datasets (such as the Household Labour Force Survey).
Instead one national survey is done every 5 years after the Census, usually with a big delay in publishing results. The questions also remain far too shaped by a view of disabled people as recipients of medical and support services, rather than citizens with full and wide-ranging lives and contributions to make.
Except for rare specialised research projects we are therefore not able to say much that's meaningful and timely about disabled people compared with others in any part of life, including justice as in this discussion.
I have personally managed to get a disability cross-tab into a few datasets now, but not to get resources or engagement to analyse or use the results. It's rubbish, frankly, though I guess the bright side is that the current government's aversion to evidence means its woeful absence is less of a disadvantage.
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Hard News: Like Minds, in reply to Rex Widerstrom,
Thanks for the US reference. Interesting.
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Hard News: Like Minds, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
The official NZ ASD Guideline says on page 180:
Although it is generally accepted that people with ASD and other disabilities have a higher likelihood of contact with the police, courts and criminal justice system than other people, little research on this could be found. Certainly people with disabilities have an increased risk of being victims of crimes.
A couple of journal references are endnoted in that paragraph. You can also navigate through the Guideline and associated material on its dedicated site.
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Legal Beagle: Asking the next question, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
prior to the Treaty, we wouldn't have had a governor
good point
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Legal Beagle: Asking the next question, in reply to Andre Alessi,
Space-age lawyering, naturally
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Legal Beagle: Asking the next question, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
This is not backed by any research or reading on my part, but could Maori signatories have thought that the then-current role of the Chiefs and the Governor were being talked about? That is, rangatiratanga is all the stuff chiefs do and kawanatanga is what the governor does.
You can imagine some potential for surprise when the latter turned out to mean "flogs your land".