Policy Overview

United Future Will:

• Introduce tougher penalties for child abuse and neglect.

• Ensure offences against children receive at least the same penalties as offences against adults.

• Provide for cumulative sentences rather than concurrent sentences so that multiple offenders pay for each crime they have committed, not just one.

• Introduce mandatory guidelines, including higher minimum sentences to ensure sentencing reflects nature of the offending, and reflects the overwhelming concern of New Zealanders with overly lenient sentencing.

• In the case of heinous murders, ensure criminals face life imprisonment, without the possibility of parole.

United Future Parliamentary Office: Bowen House, Lambton Quay, Wellington
Email: Phone: (04) 471 9410