Alliance on Crime & Justice

The Alliance says communities become safer when people have well-paid jobs, free education, and free healthcare. Their justice policy proposes habilitation centres instead of prison (especially for young people), restorative justice, proper support for victims through a compensation board, publicly owned prisons, a fully funded legal aid system so no one is denied justice because they are poor, and reinstating the right to sue corporations for climate-change-related damage.

• Ensure communities have well-paid jobs, free education and health care as the foundation for reducing crime
• Tackle the causes of offending through secure housing, decent work, education and training, healthcare, and mental health and addiction services
• Establish habilitation centres as an alternative to prison, particularly for young people
• Bring back Community Care Orders as a sentencing option
• Place restorative justice at the centre of appropriate responses to offending, including marae-based processes, with proper resourcing of iwi and Māori organisations
• Set up a properly resourced Victim/Criminal Compensation Board to provide financial, physical and other support for victims of crime
• Review legal aid with the aim of a comprehensive, publicly funded system of legal assistance, and keep prisons publicly owned and operated
• Reinstate the right to sue corporations or individuals over damage caused by emissions-related climate change effects

Summarised neutrally from Alliance’s own official policy (as at 2026-09-25) and checked by an editor. Nothing is paraphrased without the source linked. Read the original ↗ Politika is non-partisan. Compare all parties on Crime & Justice →