Case studies from evaluation of court-referred restorative justice pilot [pdf, 791 KB]
...Jackie to read the police summary of the events of that night. Tama was asked firstly if he agreed with the police account and to tell those at the conference what happened. Tama agreed with the summary and spoke briefly about it. His father, Tane, requested more detail. At this time, Tama’s minimal responses were incomprehensible due to his tears and sniffing. He said, ‘I didn’t really want to do it…when I looked at him…I just pushed him up against the till’. Encouraged...