@article{oai:niigata-u.repo.nii.ac.jp:00029780,
 author = {Mousourakis, George},
 issue = {1},
 journal = {法政理論, 法政理論},
 month = {Aug},
 note = {Over the past three decades, a new approach to society’s response to crime and criminality has been gaining ground around the world. Known as‘restorative justice’, this innovative approach revolves around the ideas that crime is primarily a violation of a relationship among victims, offenders and the community ; that the chief aim of the justice process should be to reconcile those most directly affected by the offending behaviour while addressing the injuries they suffered ; and that the resolution of crimerelated conflicts demands a positive effort on the part of victims and offenders, and the assumption of responsibility by the community. A restorative justice practice that has attracted much attention in recent years is conferencing. Conferencing is essentially an extension of the victimoffender mediation process involving not only offenders and victims but also their wider‘communities of care’, such as their respective families and other community members. It aims to involve the young offender, the victim, and their families in a decision-making process with the objective of reaching group-consensus on a‘just’outcome. At the same time, it seeks to increase the offender’s awareness of the human impact of his or her behaviour and to enable both the offender and victim to reconnect with key community support systems. Conferencing in New Zealand, referred to as‘Family Group Conferencing’（FGC）, was incorporated into the youth justice system in 1989 with the introduction of the Children, Young Persons and 38 Family Conferencing for Young Offenders : Some Lessons from New Zealand（MOUSOURAKIS）Their Families Act（CYPFA）. The Act emerged partly as a response to Maori demands for a system of justice more sensitive to their traditional cultural values, and it introduced significant changes to the approach for addressing issues of juvenile justice and family welfare. This paper analyses the function of Family Group Conferencing in New Zealand in relation to the broader restorative justice philosophy and assesses the role of the conference system in addressing the problems associated with juvenile offending.},
 pages = {38--68},
 title = {Family Conferencing for Young Offenders: Some Lessons from New Zealand},
 volume = {40},
 year = {2007}
}