Posts by Dylan Mordaunt

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  • Southerly: Sir Roger Tipped As New…,

    Brilliant. Agree with Danielle, couldn't help but sigh- David Haywood's own 'Animal Farm'.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2007 • 22 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: The Bottom is a Magic Place,

    It's nine months of supervision, including counselling, not a custodial sentence. That doesn't seem like a harsh or onerous sentence me. The concern is not that this sentence is too heavy - it's not - but that other sentences have been far too light.

    I can't help but think of sentences as a social intervention in a similar way to how pharmaceuticals or physiotherapy are a medical intervention. In this way, health care has not long seen the major advantages to primary and secondary form interventions for prevention of medical illness.

    This sentence to me smacks of a secondary preventative notion, and seems incomparable (in terms of duration) to the almost wholly punitive sentences administered in cases of murder.

    This sentence whilst probably ego-brusing to the parent, has in my view got both the parent and child's interests at heart. I'm happy to support this with my tax dollar and wish there were more rehabilitative/preventative social interventions being administered, especially given the harmful effects of re-institutionalisation which the justice system is progressively mediating.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2007 • 22 posts Report Reply

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