Abortion and the Crimes Act
Kate McIntyre made this Official Information request to Ministry of Justice
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From: Kate McIntyre
Dear Ministry of Justice,
Please provide me with the following:
-The total number of people arrested for the offences of ss 182, 183, and 186 of the Crimes Act. Please break this down by offence. Please break this down by year as far back as records permit. Please break this down by ethnicity.
-The total number of people charged for the offences of ss 182, 183, and 186 of the Crimes Act. Please break this down by offence. Please break this down by year as far back as records permit. Please break this down by ethnicity.
-The total number of people prosecuted for the offences of ss 182, 183, and 186 of the Crimes Act. Please break this down by offence. Please break this down by year as far back as records permit. Please break this down by ethnicity.
-The total number of people found guilty of the offences of ss 182, 183, and 186 of the Crimes Act. Please break this down by offence. Please break this down by year as far back as records permit. Please break this down by ethnicity.
-The total number of people convicted for the offences of ss 182, 183, and 186 of the Crimes Act. Please break this down by offence. Please break this down by year as far back as records permit. Please break this down by ethnicity.
-The total number of people sentenced to a period of imprisonment for the offences of ss 182, 183, and 186 of the Crimes Act. Please break this down by offence. Please break this down by year as far back as records permit. Please break this down by ethnicity.
Yours faithfully,
Kate McIntyre
From: correspondence, official
Ministry of Justice
Good afternoon Ms McIntyre,
With regards to your Official Information Request of 07 April 2019 titled
‘Abortion and the Crimes Act’, as below, we would just like to gain
clarification from you on two of these questions.
For questions two and three you have asked;
“The total number of people charged for the offences of ss 182, 183, and
186 of the Crimes Act”
“The total number of people prosecuted for the offences of ss 182, 183,
and 186 of the Crimes Act.”
In our system ‘numbers of people charged’ and ‘numbers prosecuted’ means
the same thing. Are you able to please clarify if your meaning was for
separate data and would like to re-word one of your questions? Or will
answering these as one single question suffice?
For question four; "The total number of people found guilty of the
offences of ss 182, 183, and 186 of the Crimes Act."
Do you mean found guilty including - or excluding - those who admitted
the offence?
If you can take a look at these questions and get back to us with these
clarifications, then we can move forward with processing your request.
Kind regards,
[1]http://www.justice.govt.nz/courts/shared... Alex Pickard
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From: correspondence, official
Ministry of Justice
Good morning Ms McIntyre,
On the 08 April we sent you the following email requesting clarification
for parts of your OIA request.
To date we still have not received clarification from you.
Again, If you can look over this clarification request below and get back
to us, that would be greatly appreciated.
Kind regards,
[1]http://www.justice.govt.nz/courts/shared... Alex Pickard
Advisor |
Official
Correspondence
Communications
Ministry of
Justice | Tâhû
o te Ture
From: correspondence, official
Sent: Monday, 8 April 2019 3:48 p.m.
To: Kate McIntyre <[FOI #10033 email]>
Subject: RE: Official Information request - Abortion and the Crimes Act
Good afternoon Ms McIntyre,
With regards to your Official Information Request of 07 April 2019 titled
‘Abortion and the Crimes Act’, as below, we would just like to gain
clarification from you on two of these questions.
For questions two and three you have asked;
“The total number of people charged for the offences of ss 182, 183, and
186 of the Crimes Act”
“The total number of people prosecuted for the offences of ss 182, 183,
and 186 of the Crimes Act.”
In our system ‘numbers of people charged’ and ‘numbers prosecuted’ means
the same thing. Are you able to please clarify if your meaning was for
separate data and would like to re-word one of your questions? Or will
answering these as one single question suffice?
For question four; "The total number of people found guilty of the
offences of ss 182, 183, and 186 of the Crimes Act."
Do you mean found guilty including - or excluding - those who admitted
the offence?
If you can take a look at these questions and get back to us with these
clarifications, then we can move forward with processing your request.
Kind regards,
[2]http://www.justice.govt.nz/courts/shared... Alex Pickard
Advisor |
Official
Correspondence
Communications
Ministry of
Justice | Tâhû
o te Ture
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From: Kate McIntyre
Dear correspondence, official,
For questions two and three, those can be answered as one question.
For question 4, could the information include those who admitted the offence, and also specify what number of those found guilty admitted to the offence.
Yours sincerely,
Kate McIntyre
From: Jackson, Lydia
Ministry of Justice
Kia ora Kate,
Please find attached your OIA response.
Many thanks,
Lydia.
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From: Kate McIntyre
Dear Jackson, Lydia,
Thank you for this information. I would like to follow up and ask whether this data could be broken down by decade.
Yours sincerely,
Kate McIntyre
From: Jackson, Lydia
Ministry of Justice
Hi Kate,
This will need to logged as a new OIA request. I have logged this for you now.
Many thanks,
Lydia.
Lydia Jackson
Communications Advisor - Media | Communications Services
Ministry of Justice | Tāhū o te Ture
P DDI 04 4394065 | Ext 44065| M 0272902119
[email address] | justice.govt.nz
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From: Jackson, Lydia
Ministry of Justice
Kia ora Ms McIntyre,
Please find attached your OIA response. I apologise for the delay in
responding to your request and for any inconvenience that this may have
caused.
Many thanks,
Lydia.
[1]Description: Description: Description: Lydia Jackson
Description: Communications Advisor - Media |
http://justice.govt.nz/courts/shared/jus... Communications Services
Ministry of Justice | Tāhū o te
Ture
P DDI 04 4394065 | Ext 44065| M
0272902119
[2][email address]
| [3]justice.govt.nz
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Mark Hanna left an annotation ()
It's a shame the Ministry of Justice decided to only release this information in an inaccessible image-based PDF format.
I've transcribed the tables into a publicly viewable spreadsheet on Google Drive here, so anyone can see them: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1...
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