RT Article
T1 Revisiting New Zealand’s “gift to the world”: demythologising youth justice family group conferencing in Aotearoa New Zealand
JF Contemporary justice review
VO 28
IS 2
SP 220
OP 244
A1 Wood, William R.
A1 Tauri, Juan
A2 Tauri, Juan
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1931345163
AB In 1989, New Zealand implemented Family Group Conferences (FGCs) as part of the Children, Young Persons, and their Families Act. Since then, New Zealand’s youth justice system, and the FGC in particular, has regularly been portrayed and referenced as an exemplar of youth restorative justice legislation, policy, and practice. In this article we examine six predominant myths about youth restorative justice and the FGC in New Zealand regularly set forth in academic, advocacy, policy, and industry literatures. In examining these myths, we seek to address and temper claims-making regarding New Zealand’s youth justice system and the use of restorative justice as a purported solution problems facing young people, their whānau (families), victims, and communities. We conclude with brief discussion of these myths in light of recent proposed changes to youth justice policies in New Zealand.
K1 Victims
K1 Youth Justice
K1 Restorative Justice
K1 New Zealand
K1 Māori
K1 Family Group Conferencing
DO 10.1080/10282580.2025.2519736