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- Editorial
- “I can’t change my past, but I can change my future”: Perpetrator perspectives on what helps to stop family violence
- Assessing risk of re-offending: Recalibration of the Department of Corrections’ core risk assessment measure
- Hōkai Rangi: Context and background to the development of Ara Poutama Aotearoa Strategy 2019-2024
- Intervention and Support Project
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- It’s the right path for me”: Findings from an aromatawai of Te Ira Wahine
- Book review: Gangland by Jared Savage
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- Volume 7 Issue 1: July 2019
- Editorial - Hope in the face of ‘wicked’ problems
- What has happened to you? Changing how we think about family violence and justice
- Putting victims at the heart of the criminal justice system
- “It’s all about the choices I make”: Understanding women’s pathways to desistance
- “I’m trying to change my ways”: The desistance processes of persistent offenders
- The Short Violence Prevention Programme: An offence-focused intervention for short-serving incarcerated men with a history of violence who are at high risk of re-offending
- Relapse prevention and safety planning: A viable short term intervention
- The Short Motivational Programme-Revised: A new era of Motivational Interviewing in programme delivery
- Supporting neurodiverse learners in New Zealand prisons
- Motivational Interviewing – the journey of Community Corrections
- The Alcohol and Other Drugs Aftercare Worker Service: Process evaluation findings
- Update on the community-based two-year alcohol and other drug testing trial
- Qualitative evaluation of the alcohol and other drug testing in the community trial
- Comparison of socio-economic and reconviction outcomes for offenders sentenced to home detention or a short sentence of imprisonment respectively
- New Zealand’s Six Pillar Model of reintegration and international reintegrative models: A review of the literature
- Housing supports and services in New Zealand: A cross-agency response
- Matawhāiti Residence – Public Protection Orders
- A mental health service for people in central North Island prisons
- Leading with values, measuring success
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- Book review: Global perspectives on desistance: Reviewing what we know, and looking to the future
- Volume 6 Issue 2: November 2018
- Editorial
- Expanding Residential Community Care and Services: A policy option for New Zealand?
- Creating Positive Pathways: A long-term housing initiative for people released from prison
- The effectiveness of Corrections' rehabilitation interventions with Māori
- Are psychologists meeting the needs of Māori? A perspective from Psychological Services
- Aotearoa New Zealand cultural interventions: Current issues and potential avenues
- Te Ara Tauwhaiti - Kaupapa Māori supervision pathway for programme facilitators
- The development of the Kimihia Violence Prevention programme: An offence focused programme for women with high and complex needs
- Kia Rite: Evaluation of a new behavioural skills programme for women
- Development and implementation of trauma-informed training for women's corrections facilities in Aotearoa New Zealand
- Introducing practice tools for working distinctively with women
- "For me it was normal": Some initial findings from the family violence perpetrator study
- Inter-agency alignment of family violence programmes
- Inside probation officer contacts: A summary of an analysis of recorded probation
- My Mahi - the Community Work App
- Supporting Offenders into Employment
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- Risky business: Evaluating the Dynamic Risk Assessment for Offender Re-entry for use with New Zealand youth
- Drawing on collective strengths to improve outcomes for youth in Corrections' youth units
- Evaluation of brief methamphetamine-focused interventions
- Practice note: Ara Poutama Practice Framework - our guide to integrated prison practice
- Book review: Offending and Desistance
- Book review: The End of Policing
- Volume 6 Issue 1: July 2018
- Editorial
- Intervention and Support Project
- Development of Mental Health and Reintegration Services in the New Zealand Department of Corrections
- Evaluation of the Improved Mental Health service
- Evaluation of the counsellors and social workers services
- Pursuing consistency: multiple sites; one drug treatment approach
- Early intervention and support: Corrections' Methamphetamine Pilot
- Alcohol and other drug testing trial of community-based offenders
- Employment needs post-prison: A gendered analysis of expectations, outcomes and service effectiveness
- Extending the reach of the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award, Aotearoa New Zealand Hillary Award for youth in Corrections
- Women offenders: Another look at the evidence
- A brief history of Te Tirohanga units
- “I know our people”: Exploring community approaches to gang member reintegration II
- Effective rehabilitation through evidence-based corrections
- The parachute problem
- Where New Zealand stands internationally: A comparison of offence profiles and recidivism rates
- Enhancements transform Office of the Inspectorate
- The journey to achieve a safer and healthier workplace
- Performance on the Physical Readiness Assessment
- Across the Tasman: A reflective practice journey
- Practice note: Identifying and managing the effects of traumatic brain injury
- World Congress on Probation: Report from the Chief Probation Officer
- Book Review: Parental Incarceration and the Family: Psychological and Social Effects of Imprisonment on Children, Parents, and Caregivers
- Book Review: Dress Behind Bars: Prison Clothing as Criminality
- Volume 5 Issue 2: November 2017
- Editorial
- Addressing the imbalance: Enhancing women's opportunities to build offence free lives through gender responsivity
- Collaborative, relational and responsive: Principles for the case management of women in prison
- Methamphetamine use disorders among New Zealand prisoners
- Strengthening continuity of care: Corrections' Alcohol and Other Drug Aftercare Worker Pilot
- Suicide in New Zealand Prisons - 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2016
- Transforming intervention and support for at-risk prisoners
- The Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale: Validation for use as a screen for suicide risk in New Zealand prisons and probation settings
- An introduction to countering violent extremism
- The last defence against gang crime: Exploring community approaches to gang member reintegration - part I
- Supported accommodation services for released offenders in New Zealand - a review
- From Māori Therapeutic Programmes to Mauri Tū Pae
- A review of the Saili Matagi Programme for male Pacifica prisoners
- Measuring practice quality: A new approach in a Corrections setting
- Safety leadership - creating a positive safety culture at Corrections
- An integrated approach: Holistic assessment of vocational trainees
- Do your stretch: Yoga as a rehabilitative intervention
- Focus groups in prison
- Role differences between psychologists who work in Corrections and those who work in Forensic Health Services
- Book review: Sport in prison: Exploring the role of physical activity in correctional settings
- Volume 5 Issue 1: July 2017
- Editorial - Rehabilitation, reintegration, and the psychology of criminal conduct
- What works in correctional rehabilitation? Lessons from 15 years of programme outcomes analysis
- New Zealand prisoners’ prior exposure to trauma
- Treating sexual offenders who categorically deny their offending
- Corrections officer wellbeing: Training challenges and opportunities
- The fatigue journey
- New Zealand’s extensive electronic monitoring application: “Out on a limb” or “leading the world”?
- What happens beyond the gate? Findings from the post-release employment study
- Investing in prison education: New approaches to improving educational outcomes and reducing re-offending
- Women’s prison education
- Targeting recidivism of ex-offenders through the use of employment
- Community support systems for people released from prison: A review of the literature
- Practice note: International Symposium on Operational Correctional Issues and Challenges
- Practice note: Probation practice wheel
- Book review: The Psychology of Criminal Conduct 6th Edition
- Book review: Crime Law and Justice in New Zealand
- Information for contributors
- Volume 4 Issue 2: December 2016
- Editorial - Changing practice; changing lives
- The Department of Corrections' tikanga-based programmes
- Innovations in reducing re-offending
- The Sentenced Prisoner Population
- Trauma hiding in plain view: the case for trauma informed practice in women’s prisons
- Cross-agency plan to deliver world leading interventions for people who use violence within their family
- Towards an understanding of female family violence perpetrators: A study of women in prison
- Evidence-based principles for prison-based alcohol and drug treatment
- State of mind: mental health services in New Zealand prisons
- Supporting offenders into employment
- Guided Release: A graduated pathway enabling safe and successful reintegration for long-serving prisoners
- Aukaha te Waka – the Future of Probation 2016 – 2021
- An exploratory analysis into the mortality of offenders
- Building relationships to improve outcomes for youth in Corrections
- Book Review: What Works in Crime Prevention
- Book Review: Environmental corrections: A new paradigm for supervising offenders in the community
- Information for contributors
- Volume 4 Issue 1: August 2016
- Editorial - Innovation in Corrections
- Do relationships matter? Examining the quality of probation officers’ interactions with parolees in preventing recidivism
- Family violence perpetrators: Existing evidence and new directions
- Comorbid substance use disorders and mental health disorders among New Zealand prisoners
- Brain gain for youth:Emerging trends in neuroscience
- Mauri Tu, Mauri Ora: An offence focussed programme for high risk youth
- What's in a name? The importance of identity verification for public protection
- The Investment Approach to Justice: Taking Integrated Offender Management to Police, Justice and the wider social sector
- On body cameras in prison
- Swift, Certain and Fair Sanctions: An innovative new programme or false HOPE?
- Ka Upane - "into the light" A brief skills group for short-serving offenders
- Phone call initiative
- Employment as a factor in desistance from crime
- Getting more "skin in the game" How latest evidence around social bonds suggests we can get more players involved in reducing re-offending, while reducing risk to the Crown
- The Hutt Valley Justice Sector Innovation Project: a case study on proactive approaches to innovation
- What works: a new model of public service delivery
- Profile: Ian Lambie, Chief Science Adviser for the justice sector
- When you really can't "know thy self" - what next?
- Book review: Switch: How to change things when change is hard
- Information for contributors
- Volume 3 Issue 2: December 2015 - Evidence based practice
- Twenty years of Corrections - The evolution of offender rehabilitation
- The High Risk Personality Programme - Revised: An evaluation report
- Women's experiences of rehabilitation and re-offending summary of findings
- Te Kupenga: An approach to working with offending families
- Public protection orders - Managing the most dangerous offenders under a civil regime
- Co-morbidity research - Part one
- What does it mean when Corrections says we will place the victim at the centre of our concerns in the family violence context?
- Making a difference for young people in prison
- Rolleston Prison - Reflections on a multi-disciplinary team in action
- Reduced re-offending by 25% by 2017
- Frontline Futures
- Characteristics of a learning culture
- Psychopathy and its implication for criminal justice - Key presentations and discussions from a specialist conference held May 2015, Austin, Texas.
- Book Review: Self-Insight: Roadblocks and Detours on the Path to Knowing Thyself
- Book review: The Girls in the Gang
- Information for contributors
- Volume 3 Issue 1: April 2015 - Desistance
- Desistance from crime: A review of the literature
- Discovering desistance: Reconfiguring criminal justice?
- Lessons from research into youth desistance
- The role of release planning in the reintegration experiences of high-risk offenders
- Desistance in high-risk prisoners: Pre-release self-reported desistance commitment and perceptions of change predict 12-month survival
- Practice note: Building recovery, reducing crime
- The problem with 'the problem with gangs': Reflections on practice and offender desistance
- Physical Readiness Assessment and staff resilience
- Whakamanahia Wahine Programme for low-risk women offenders
- Book review: The Resilience Factor
- Book review: Desistance from Sex Offending: Alternatives to Throwing Away the Keys
- Information for contributors
- Volume 2 Issue 3: December 2014 - Collaboration and Partnerships
- Volume 2 Issue 2: August 2014 - Motivational Interviewing
- Volume 2 Issue 1: April 2014
- Volume 1 Issue 2: November 2013 - Youth
- Volume 1 Issue 1: May 2013
- Volume 8 Issue 1: June 2021
- Tai Aroha Evaluation 2015
- Comorbid substance use disorders and mental health disorders among New Zealand prisoners
- Women's Experiences of Re-offending and Rehabilitation
- Topic Series Reports
- Formative Evaluation of the Mothers with Babies Units
- What Works for Maori
- Community Based Domestic Violence 2012
- Tai Aroha 2012
- Breaking the Cycle of Crime
- Youth Therapeutic Programmes
- Prisoner double-bunking: Perceptions and impacts (2012)
- Community Sentence Patterns in New Zealand
- Benchmarking Study of Home Detention Programs in Australia and New Zealand
- About Time: Turning people away from a life of crime and reducing re-offending
- Reconviction Rates of Sex Offenders: Five year follow-up study
- Risk assessment of recidivism of violent sexual female offenders
- Introduction
- Policies, guidelines and current practices
- A profile of violent and sexual female offenders
- Female offenders
- Risk, need and responsivity
- Risk factors for (repeated) criminal behaviour
- Risk factors for violent re-offending
- Psychopathy and female offenders
- Risk factors and sexual re-offending
- Criminogenic needs
- Responsivity issues
- Recommendations and guidelines
- Reference-list
- Appendices
- What works now
- Reconviction Patterns of offenders managed in the community: A 60-months follow-up analysis
- Reconviction patterns of released prisoners: A 48-months follow-up analysis
- Introduction
- Overall recidivism rates (48-month follow-up)
- Re-imprisonment rates by age at release
- Re-imprisonment rates by age at first imprisonment
- Re-imprisonment rates by ethnicity
- Re-imprisonment rates by original offence type
- Reimprisonment rates by new offence type
- Frequency of re-imprisonments (48-month follow-up)
- Re-imprisonment rates by number of previous sentences
- Re-imprisonment rates: "first-timers" and "recidivists"
- Summary
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2: Counts of offenders in each sub-group
- Reconviction patterns of released prisoners: A 60-months follow-up analysis
- Maori Offenders and Home Detention: Analysis of a One-Year Cohort
- Reconviction patterns of offenders managed in the community: A 48-months follow-up analysis
- Over-representation of Maori in the criminal justice system
- Executive Summary
- 1.0 Introduction
- 2.0 Criminal justice system bias and amplification
- 3.0 Early life environmental influences
- 4.0 Overall summary and conclusions
- Bibliography
- Appendix of statistics
- Reconviction Patterns of Released Prisoners: A 36-months Follow-up Analysis
- And there was light...
- Best use of Psychological Service treatment resources
- Census of Prison Inmates and Home Detainees
- Child Sex Offender Treatment
- Criminogenic Needs Inventory (CNI)
- Inmate Family Relocation Study
- National Study of Psychiatric Morbidity in NZ Prisons
- New Zealand high-risk offenders
- Prison Youth Vulnerability Scale
- Risk of Reconviction
- Storm Warning
- Te Whakakotahitanga - An Evaluation of the Te Piriti Special Treatment Programme
- The Driving Offender Treatment Scale
- The Effectiveness of Correctional Treatment
- Just How Effective Is Correctional Treatment At Reducing Re-Offending?
- Historical Background: The "What Works?" Debate
- Reviews of Offender Rehabilitation
- New Zealand Correctional Programming
- 1. Psychological Service treatment evaluation studies
- 2. The Kia Marama sex offender treatment programme
- 3. The Montgomery House violence prevention programme
- 4. The Driving Offender Treatment (DOT) programme
- 5. The Te Piriti sex offender treatment programme
- 6. Straight Thinking
- Conclusions
- Summary
- References
- The Utility of the Psychopathy Checklist - Screening Version for Predicting Serious Violent Recidivism in a New Zealand Offender Sample
- When the Bough Breaks
- A Risk-Need Profile Using Four Measures for Youth Offenders Incarcerated in Young Offender Units
- Executive Summary
- Introduction
- Method
- Results
- Discussion and Recommendations
- References
- Appendix A: Study Risk Measures
- Appendix B: Participants Information and Consent Form
- Appendix C: Distribution of index offending by YOU
- Appendix D: Distribution of risk categories for all four risk Measures
- Appendix E: Distribution of YLS/CMI subscale scores
- Māori Focus Units and Māori Therapeutic
- Statistics
- Prison statistics
- Prison facts and statistics - September 2024
- Prison facts and statistics - June 2024
- Prison facts and statistics - March 2024
- Prison facts and statistics - December 2023
- Prison facts and statistics - September 2023
- Prison facts and statistics - June 2023
- Prison facts and statistics - March 2023
- Prison facts and statistics - December 2022
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- Prison facts and statistics - June 2022
- Prison facts and statistics - March 2022
- Prison facts and statistics - December 2021
- Prison facts and statistics - September 2021
- Prison facts and statistics - June 2021
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- Prison facts and statistics - December 2020
- Prison facts and statistics - September 2020
- Prison facts and statistics - June 2020
- Prison facts and statistics - March 2020
- Prison facts and statistics - December 2019
- Prison facts and statistics - September 2019
- Prison facts and statistics - June 2019
- Prison facts and statistics - March 2019
- Prison facts and statistics - December 2018
- Prison facts and statistics - September 2018
- Prison facts and statistics - June 2018
- Prison facts and statistics - March 2018
- Previous years' prison statistics
- Prison facts and statistics - December 2017
- Prison facts and statistics - September 2017
- Prison facts and statistics - June 2017
- Prison facts and statistics - March 2017
- Prison facts and statistics - December 2016
- Prison facts and statistics - September 2016
- Prison facts and statistics - June 2016
- Prison facts and statistics - March 2016
- Prison facts and statistics - December 2015
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- Prison facts and statistics - December 2014
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- Prison facts and statistics - December 2013
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- Community sentences and orders statistics
- Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - September 2024
- Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - June 2024
- Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - March 2024
- Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - December 2023
- Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - September 2023
- Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - June 2023
- Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - March 2023
- Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - December 2022
- Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - September 2022
- Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - June 2022
- Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - March 2022
- Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - December 2021
- Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - September 2021
- Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - June 2021
- Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - March 2021
- Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - December 2020
- Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - September 2020
- Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - June 2020
- Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - March 2020
- Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - December 2019
- Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - September 2019
- Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - June 2019
- Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - March 2019
- Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - December 2018
- Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - September 2018
- Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - June 2018
- Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - March 2018
- Previous years' community statistics
- Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - December 2017
- Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - September 2017
- Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - June 2017
- Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - March 2017
- Community sentences and orders statistics - December 2016
- Community sentences and orders statistics - September 2016
- Community sentences and orders statistics - June 2016
- Community sentences and orders statistics - March 2016
- Community sentences and orders statistics - December 2015
- Community sentences and orders statistics - September 2015
- Community sentences and orders statistics - June 2015
- Community sentences and orders statistics - March 2015
- Community sentences and orders statistics - December 2014
- Community sentences and orders statistics - September 2014
- Community sentences and orders statistics - June 2014
- Community sentences and orders statistics - March 2014
- Community sentences and orders statistics - December 2013
- Community sentences and orders statistics - September 2013
- Community sentences and orders statistics - June 2013
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- Community sentences and orders statistics - December 2012
- Community sentences and orders statistics - September 2012
- Community sentences and orders statistics - June 2012
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- Community sentences and orders statistics - December 2011
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- Assaults in prisons
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- Corrections Volumes Report
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- Strategic reports
- Budget 2024 Decisions
- Corrections’ Strategic Plans
- Hōkai Rangi - Refresh 2024
- Hōkai Rangi 2019 - 2024
- Change Lives Shape Futures Strategic Plan 2016-2017
- RR25 Reducing Re-offending - Year Two
- RR25 Reducing Re-offending - Year one
- Creating Lasting Change 2011 - 2015 - Year Three
- Creating Lasting Change 2011 - 2015 - Year Two
- Creating Lasting Change 2011 - 2015 - Year One
- Inclusion, Equity and Diversity Update Part 1
- Annual Reports
- Annual Report 2023/24
- Annual Report 2022/23
- Annual Report 2021/2022
- Annual Report 2020/2021
- Annual Report 2019/20
- Annual Report 2018/19
- Annual Report 2017/18
- Annual Report 2016/17
- Annual Report 2015/16
- Chief Executive's overview
- What Corrections does - Change Lives, Shape Futures
- Corrections and the Justice Sector
- Making a difference in a challenging environment
- Corrections by the numbers
- Offender Summary
- Financial overview
- Increasing prison population
- Integrity of prison sentences
- Minimising the risk of harm to others
- Our staff are equipped to be safe and respond where necessary
- Offenders in the community
- Electronic monitoring of offenders
- The Judiciary and New Zealand Parole Board
- Continued focus on public protection
- Reducing the rate of re-offending
- Industry, Treatment and Learning programme
- Corrections will continue to look for new ways to rehabilitate offenders
- Our approach to reintegration
- Succeeding with Māori
- Maintaining the health and wellbeing of offenders in custody
- Modern infrastructure
- Governance and oversight
- Supporting our people
- Health and safety
- Integrity
- Our people
- Community support and partnerships
- Statement of Responsibility and Independent Auditor's Report
- Appropriation - Prison-based Custodial Services
- Appropriation - Sentences and Orders Served in the Community
- Appropriation - Rehabilitation and Reintegration
- Appropriation - Information and Administrative Services to the Judiciary and New Zealand Parole Board
- Appropriation - Policy Advice and Ministerial Services (Multi-Category Output Appropriation)
- Glossary of Terms
- The Year at a Glance
- Statement of Comprehensive Revenue and Expense
- Statement of Changes in Taxpayers' Funds
- Statement of Financial Position
- Statement of Cash Flows
- Statement of Commitments
- Statement of Contingent Liabilities and Assets
- Statement of Trust Monies
- Notes to the Financial Statements
- Statement of Departmental Expenditure and Capital Expenditure Against Appropriations
- Statement of Capital Injections
- Statement of Capital Injections Without, or in Excess of, Authority
- Statement of Expenses and Capital Expenditure Incurred Without, or in Excess of, Authority
- Appendix One: Progress towards the June 2017 target of a 25% reduction in re-offending
- Appendix Two: Recidivism Index
- Appendix Three: Recidivism Index and Rehabilitation Quotient
- Appendix Four: Report under section 190 of the Corrections Act 2004 and Parole Act 2002
- Appendix Five: Report under section 121 of the Public Safety (Public Protection Orders) Act 2014
- Appendix Six: Report under section 50 (a) of the Victims' Rights Act 2002
- Appendix Seven: Profile of our people
- Appendix Eight: Prison Performance Table
- Annual Report 2014/15
- Introduction
- Financial Overview
- Part A: Contribution to Priorities and Delivery of Outcomes
- Part B: Statement of Performance
- Auditor's Report and Statement of Responsibility
- Appropriation - Prison-based Custodial Services
- Appropriation - Sentences and Orders Served in the Community
- Appropriation - Rehabilitation and Reintegration
- Appropriation - Information and Administrative Services to the Judiciary and New Zealand Parole Board
- Appropriation - Policy Advice and Ministerial Services (Multi Class Output Appropriation)
- Appropriation - Contract Management of Services Provided by Third Parties
- Glossary of Terms
- Part C: Annual Financial Statements
- The Year at a Glance
- Statement of Comprehensive Revenue and Expense
- Statement of Changes in Taxpayers' Funds
- Statement of Financial Position
- Statement of Cash Flows
- Statement of Commitments
- Statement of Contingent Liabilities and Assets
- Statement of Trust Monies
- Notes to the Financial Statements
- Statement of Expenses and Capital Expenditure
- Part D - Appendices
- Annual Report 2013/14
- Annual Report 2012/13
- Annual Report 2011/12
- Annual Report 2010/11
- Annual Report 2009/10
- Annual Report 2008/09
- Annual Report 2007/08
- Annual Report 2006/07
- Annual Report 2005/06
- Introduction
- Chief Executives Foreword
- Table and Figures
- Part 1 - Strategic Context
- Part 2 - Achievements in 2005/2006
- Part 3 - Sustainable Development Report
- Part 4 - Annual Financial Statements and Statement of Service Performance
- Statement of Responsibility
- Audit Report
- Matters relating to the electronic presentation of the audited financial
- Transition to the New Zealand Equivalents to International Financial Reporting Standards
- Financial Statement: Statement of Accounting Policies
- Financial Statement: Statement of Financial Performance
- Financial Statement: Statement of Movement in Taxpayers' Funds
- Financial Statement: Statement of Financial Position
- Financial Statement: Statement of Cash Flows
- Financial Statement: Statement of Commitments
- Financial Statement: Statement of Contingent Liabilities
- Financial Statement: Statement of Unappropriated Expenditure
- Financial Statement: Statement of Departmental Expenditure and Appropriations
- Financial Statement: Statement of Trust Monies
- Notes to the Financial Statements
- Service Performance: Output Class 1- Information Services
- Service Performance: Output Class 2- Community-based Sentences and Orders
- Service Performance: Output Class 3- Custody of Remand Inmates
- Service Performance: Output Class 4- Escorts and Custodial Supervision
- Service Performance: Output Class 5- Custodial Services
- Service Performance: Output Class 6- Prisoner Employment
- Service Performance: Output Class 7- Rehabilitative Programmes and Reintegrative Services
- Service Performance: Output Class 8- Services to the New Zealand Parole Board
- Service Performance: Output Class 9- Policy Advice and Development
- Service Performance: Output Class 10- Service Purchase and Monitoring
- Appendix
- Annual Report 2004/05
- Introduction
- List of Tables and Figures
- Chief Executive's Overview
- Part 1 - Strategic Context
- Purpose and Principles Guiding the Corrections System
- Corrections within the Justice Sector
- Strategic Business Plan 2003-2008 Themes and Strategies
- Department's Focus
- Environment, Issues and Implications
- Approach to Managing Offenders
- Measuring Outcomes
- Key Initiatives Delivered During 2004/05
- Risk Management
- Capability
- Collaboration with Other Agencies
- Part 2 - Financial Summary and Service Performance
- Statement of Responsibility
- Audit Report
- Matters relating to the electronic presentation of the audited financial
- Financial Statement: Statement of Accounting Policies
- Financial Statement: Statement of Financial Performance
- Financial Statement: Statement of Movement in Taxpayers' Funds
- Financial Statement: Statement of Financial Position
- Financial Statement: Statement of Cash Flows
- Financial Statement: Statement of Commitments
- Financial Statement: Statement of Contingent Liabilities
- Financial Statement: Statement of Unappropriated Expenditure
- Financial Statement: Statement of Departmental Expenditure and Appropriations
- Financial Statement: Statement of Trust Monies
- Notes to the Financial Statements
- Service Performance: Output Class 1- Information Services
- Service Performance: Output Class 2- Community-based Sentences and Orders
- Service Performance: Output Class 3- Custody of Remand Inmates
- Service Performance: Output Class 4- Escorts and Custodial Supervision
- Service Performance: Output Class 5- Custodial Services
- Service Performance: Output Class 6- Inmate Employment
- Service Performance: Output Class 7- Rehabilitative Programmes and Reintegrative Services
- Service Performance: Output Class 8- Services to the New Zealand Parole Board
- Service Performance: Output Class 9- Policy Advice and Development
- Service Performance: Output Class 10- Service Purchase and Monitoring
- Part 3 - Sustainable Development Report
- Appendix
- Select Committees
- Chief Executive's Expense Disclosure Reports
- Briefing to the Incoming Minister
- Briefing to the Incoming Minister 2023
- Briefing to Incoming Minister December 2020
- Briefing to the Incoming Minister December 2017
- Briefing to the Incoming Minister December 2016
- Briefing to the Incoming Minister December 2015
- Briefing to the Incoming Minister 2014
- Briefing for the Incoming Minister 2011
- Kia Toipoto: Gender pay gap action plan
- Ageing Well Action Plan 2023-2026
- Te Aorerekura Implementation Plan
- Disability Action Plan 2023 – 2027
- Accessible formats
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Overview of Key Concepts
- Te Tiriti o Waitangi / the Treaty of Waitangi
- Hōkai Rangi
- The Voices of Tāngata Whaikaha Māori/Disabled People in Prison
- Our Action Plan
- Our Framework
- Disability Action Tracker
- Appendix 1 – A Person’s Journey Through Ara Poutama’s Aotearoa Health Services
- Suicide Prevention and Postvention Action Plan 2022-2025
- Statements of Intent
- Statement of Intent 2022-2026
- Statement of Intent 2018-2022
- Foreword - Minister of Corrections
- Introduction from the Chief Executive
- Chief Executive Statement of Responsibility
- Responsible Minister Statement
- Introduction
- Corrections Key Statistics
- Our Operating Environment
- Our Strategic Direction
- Organisational Health and Capability
- Performance Information Supporting the Appropriations 2018/19
- Financial Summary
- Annual Legislative Reporting
- Strategic Intentions 2015-2019
- Foreword - Minister of Corrections
- Introduction from the Chief Executive
- Chief Executive Statement of Responsibility
- Responsible Minister Statement
- Agency Nature and Scope
- The Justice Sector
- Corrections' Role within the Justice Sector
- Managing Functions and Operations
- Strategic Choices, Opportunities and Challenges
- Strategic Objectives
- Performance Framework
- Public Safety is Improved
- Re-offending is Reduced
- Equal Employment Opportunities
- Annual Legislative Reporting
- Statement of Performance 2015/16 (Financial Summary)
- Appendix A - Outcome and Intermediate Outcome Measure Performance and Baseline Comparison
- Statement of Intent 2014-2018
- Statement of Intent 2013-2016
- Foreword - Minister of Corrections
- Introduction from the Chief Executive
- Nature and scope of function
- The Justice Sector
- Corrections' role within the Justice Sector
- Strategic direction
- Managing in a changeable environment
- Reducing re-offending
- Improving public safety
- Better public value
- Visible leadership
- Additional statutory reporting requirements
- Financial summary
- Statement of Intent 2012-2015
- Foreword - Minister of Corrections
- Introduction from the Chief Executive
- Nature and scope of function
- The justice sector
- Corrections' role within the justice sector
- Performance framework and measures
- Strategic overview
- Managing in a changeable environment
- Our priorities
- Additional statutory reporting requirements
- Financial summary
- Statement of service performance
- Notes to Performance Measures
- Statement of Intent 2011-2014
- Foreword from the Minister of Corrections
- Introduction from the Chief Executive
- Nature and scope of functions
- Strategic direction
- Strategic overview
- Managing in a changeable environment
- Our operating intentions
- Additional statutory reporting requirements
- Financial summary
- Statement of service performance 2011/12
- Output class: Information and administrative services to the Judiciary and New Zealand Parole Board
- Output class: Management of third party custodial services
- Output class: Policy advice and ministerial services
- Output class: Prison-based custodial services
- Output class: Rehabilitation and reintegration
- Output class: Sentences and orders served in the community
- Notes to performance measures
- Impact measure performance and baseline comparison
- Statement of Intent 2008/2009
- Foreword from the Minister of Corrections
- Introduction from the Chief Executive
- Nature and Scope of Functions
- Strategic Direction
- Operating Intentions
- Ensuring Cost Effectiveness
- Managing in a Changeable Operating Environment
- Assessing Organisational Health and Capability
- Strengthening Partnerships
- Additional Statutory Reporting Requirements
- Statement of Intent 2006/2007
- Introduction
- Ministers Foreword
- Chief Executive's Overview
- Part 1 - Strategic Direction
- Part 2 - Strategic Context
- Part 3 - Forecast Financial Statements and Statement of Forecast
- Statement of Responsibility
- Financial Summary
- Financial Highlights
- Forecast Statement of Financial Performance
- Forecast Statement of Movement in Taxpayers Funds
- Forecast Statement of Financial Position
- Forecast Statement of Cash Flows
- Forecast Reconciliation of Net Operating Cash Flows
- Forecast Details of Physical Assets
- Forecast Output Class Operating Statements
- Statement of Accounting Policies
- Statement of Forecast Service Performance - Output Class 1: Information Services
- Statement of Forecast Service Performance - Output Class 2: Community-based Sentences and Orders
- Statement of Forecast Service Performance - Output Class 3: Custody of Remand Prisoners
- Statement of Forecast Service Performance - Output Class 4: Escorts and Custodial Supervision
- Statement of Forecast Service Performance - Output Class 5: Custodial Services
- Statement of Forecast Service Performance - Output Class 6: Prisoner Employment
- Statement of Forecast Service Performance - Output Class 7: Rehabilitative Programmes and Reintegrative Services
- Statement of Forecast Service Performance - Output Class 8: Services to the New Zealand Parole Board
- Statement of Forecast Service Performance - Output Class 9: Policy Advice and Development
- Statement of Forecast Service Performance - Output Class 10: Service Purchase and Monitoring
- Appendix - Terms and Definitions
- Statement of Intent 2005/2006
- Our Health Service Story
- Wāhine: E Rere Ana Ki te Pae Hou Women's Strategy 2021 - 2025
- Alcohol and Other Drug Strategy 2021-2026
- Everyone Safe Every Day - Year Three
- Volunteer Strategy
- Accord between The Kiingitanga and Corrections
- Investing in better mental health for offenders
- Performance Improvement Framework - Follow-up Review of Department of Corrections
- Information brochures