Youth Court - Playing to win: youth offenders out of court (and sometimes in) [pdf, 241 KB]
...children or young people as necessarily symptomatic of problems or deficits with their personal, familial or environmental circumstances. A welfare approach would use the fact of criminal offending as an opportunity to address any and all welfare and care needs to a degree, and in ways, that were often disproportionate to the actual offending. 7 Morris and Young, above n 6, at 14. 3 Amid mounting concerns about the state of youth justice in New Zealand during this period, there was...