Election 2020 - Party Policies - Justice, Law and Order - Youth Justice
25th Jul 20, 5:56am
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Youth Justice
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- Maintain the current regime regarding age of criminal responsibility (effectively 14 years of age).
- Ensure young people in detention are always held separately from adults, and ensure detention is a last resort in the treatment of young people, for the shortest periods of time and in the best conditions possible.
- Improve the effectiveness of Family Group Conferences by increasing funding for training of convenors, ensuring that victims are provided with adequate information about FGCs in order to encourage a higher proportion to attend and increasing resources for FGC to ensure agreed outcomes are achieved.
- Address the over-representation of Māori and Pasifika young people in the youth justice system.
- Reform youth detention and sentencing to encourage young offenders to reintegrate into their communities.
- Read more here and here.
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