Could National’s young offender 'boot camps' actually work?
ALSO: How to improve New Zealand's next referendum; and is the Accommodation Supplement just a landlord subsidy?
Summary
Boot camps: Because National’s camps may have as much wraparound support as they do military-style activities, they could – despite their unfortunate veneer – be successful.
Referenda: A panel of ordinary citizens producing reports on referendum questions has been shown to dramatically improve how referenda perform in the US.
Accommodation Supplement: Increases in the supplement aren’t just swallowed up in extra rents – but the policy is still part of a failing housing system.
Putting the boot into boot camps
It’s an article of faith for the government’s critics that its proposed boot camps for young offenders – more details of which were revealed this week – won’t work. And that’s a reasonable presumption on the face of it.
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