Christchurch Youth Drug Court pilot: One-year follow-up study [pdf, 595 KB]
...perceived as being a crucial factor in changes seen in the young person: ‘Yes I truly believed that [they18] changed a lot through the Youth Drug Court. [They] did. The reason [they] changed was because Judge Walker spoke to those kids like they were human beings….He is one of the best Judges I have ever seen. He will go a long way the way he talks to children. I was really rapt in him’ (family/whanau) A couple of family/whanau members mentioned that the Judge would include them in...