Why does crime start in the home?
Clear Thinking on Crime
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National Radio interview MP3 here. This was conducted at the beginning of his tour.
An interview with Simon Pound from BFM in Auckland, MP3 format, in two parts
Part One here
Part Two here
Audio files for the Auckland Meeting on the 18th October can be found here as follows;
All of these are Windows Media (wma) files which should play OK in most recent Media players
Garth Mcvicar (140kB)
Kevin McNeil (745kB) son of murdered Tokoroa school teacher Lois Dear explains the impact on his family
and the main attraction, Theodore Dalrymple (2.42 MB)
Questions and Answers - Auckland
There was a lengthy question and answer session afterwards, unfortunately some of the audience did not use the radio microphones when asking questions and so their questions were not captured at all or only at very low levels. As a result some of these have very low levels or a lot of background noise in the first part of the clip.
Question 1 Imprisonment and how we use it
Question 2 The right to self-defence?
Question 3 Singapore as a possible model
Question 4 First/minor offenders and short sentences
Question 5 Race and Crime - Garth and Theodore's perspectives
Question 6 Harsh Treatment of Prisoners?
Question 7 Social welfare and incentives
Question 8 Concurrent Sentencing - (answered by Garth alone)
Question 9 Statistics and clearup rates - the reality
Question 10 Drugs Addiction and treatment
Question 11 Home Detention and Electronic Tagging
These vary in size from 53 to 360 kB.
Audio files for the Tauranga Meeting;
Brian Brown's harrowing story from Tauranga (515kB) which Theodore Dalrymple makes reference to in the speech above.
Audio files for the Napier Meeting;
Alan Duff's speech at Napier (466kB)
Video file of his interview on Shine TV;
"When a population feels alienated from the legal system under which it lives, because that system fails to protect it from real dangers while lending succor and encouragement to every possible kind of wrongdoing, the population may well lose faith in the very idea of law. That is how civilization unravels. " - Theodore Dalrymple