Youth Court - It’s all relative: the absolute importance of the family in youth justice [pdf, 444 KB]
...and the kids. Various cultures have differing, and often wider, views of what constitutes family. The modern reality is that, in any culture or context, families come in many shapes and sizes. It is not the purpose of this paper to make a value statement as to how families ought to be constructed. Rather, this paper seeks to recognise the plurality of the family construct, in the context of examining the role of the family within the youth justice system. In New Zealand, the law...