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This NZ law aims to give people with criminal convictions a ‘clean slate’. It’s not working

By Alexander Plum, Senior Research Fellow, Auckland University of Technology
Kabir Dasgupta, Research Associate, Auckland University of Technology

New Zealand’s clean slate scheme is meant to let people leave their criminal past behind. But people are waiting seven years to leave their past behind, hurting their job prospects.

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