Value orientations in New Zealand prisons

Abstract

At 9th September 1964, 1518 men and women were inmates of New Zealand prisons and borstals. Of these, 563 were under 21 years old. Of 936 male adults in prison, 805 had had previous convictions. Most men in prison, then, have felt some or all of the sanctions imposed by our courts of law - admonition, fines, probation, borstal training or previous prison sentence. There are no figures to tell us just how many of the 936 men had done time before; two out of every three would be conservative.