New Zealand's Gift to the World: The Youth Justice Family Group Conference

Inscription from author inside. Back cover coming away slightly.

This book is a New Zealand story, a celebration of the innovative family group conference as a process - a human strategy where the state, whanau and families, young people who have offended and victims come together. Here is an engaging exploration of the powerful tool for resolving youth crime using true stories and real youth justice family group conference outcomes. Here you will find opinions from New Zealanders working within the field of youth justice inside and outside government. This remarkable interface between the law, the community and young people who offend shows the human cost of crime and the human commitment to repair harm. Not only does this book look at how it is done and why it is done, it also considers the future of the youth justice family group conference. New Zealand has done well and has much to celebrate but is there more to do?