Skip to start of content

Home → Publications → Reports → Issues in law, crime and justice → Youth justice teams and the family meeting in Western Australia : a trans-Tasman analysis

Australian studies in law, crime and justice

Youth justice teams and the family meeting in Western Australia : a trans-Tasman analysis

Matua Matt Hakiaha

Published in:
Family conferencing and juvenile justice : the way forward or misplaced optimism?
Christine Alder and Joy Wundersitz (eds)
Canberra : Australian Institute of Criminology, 1994
ISBN 0 642 19881 0
(Australian studies in law, crime and justice series)

Abstract

Western Australia has introduced juvenile justice teams which are designed to divert all but the most serious offenders from entry into the formal court system. Hakiaha describes the two key components of this scheme - the juvenile justice teams, their composition and their role; and the family meeting which is the primary tool available to these teams for resolving cases referred to them.