Undercurrents: Who really benefits from tough on crime?
Why do politicians keep promising to be "tough on crime" when the evidence says it doesn't make us safer?
This week on Undercurrents, Ollie Neas is joined by author of The Valley Asher Emanuel and lawyer and activist Gabriella Brayne to unpack the gap between public perception and the reality of New Zealand's criminal legal system. From penal populism and media moral panics to housing, inequality and colonisation, this is a conversation about who really benefits from law-and-order politics.
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