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Australian studies in law, crime and justice

Family conferencing : theoretical and evaluative questions

Kenneth Polk

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

Polk carries out a theoretical analysis of the ideas behind family group conferences and cautioning models. He reviews them by asking how such ideas mesh with previous models for changing the form of juvenile justice. He also assesses these programs as examples of juvenile diversion programs.