Review of community-based sentences in New Zealand [pdf, 1.4 MB]
...who warrant some degree of supervision and control but whose offences are not serious enough to warrant periodic detention or a fully custodial sentence.56 In a case involving sexual offending (R v Accused (CA406/92) [1994] 3 NZLR 157) the Court of Appeal stated that: In any case where continued therapeutic counselling is desirable, if there is to be any departure from the approach of imprisonment the most likely possibility is a sentence of supervision of up to 2 years, on conditions,...