The NZ Justice System and Pasifika

• Fa’amatuainu, B. (2023). Self-represented litigation and meaningful access to justice in Aotearoa and Samoa. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 19(1), 13-22. https://doi.org/10.1177/11771801221145843
   
• Fredrickson, O. (2020). Risk assessment algorithms in the New Zealand criminal justice system. New Zealand Law Journal, 328.
   
• Hook, G. E. R. (2009). The criminalization of Māori and Pacific Islanders under the Domestic Violence Act 1995. MAI Review, 3.
   
• Hook, G. E. R. (2009). The potential influence of legislation on the criminality of Māori and Pacific Islanders in New Zealand. MAI Review, 3.
   
• Ioane, J. (2023). You've just got to think about your family and what type of person you want to be: Listening to young Pasifika people in the youth justice system and their families: Research and recommendations. Health Research Council of NZ and Massey University School of Psychology.

• Kaho, H. (2016). The family group conference: A Tongan perspective. New Zealand Law Review, 4, 687-721.
   

• Tuiburelevu, L. (2018). Legally brown: the experiences of Pasifika women in the criminal justice system. New Zealand Women’s Law Journal, 2,78-106
   
• Tuimavave, L. (2017). The Pasifika Youth court: A discussion of the features and whether they can be transferred. [Student research paper, Victoria University of Wellington]. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/7988
   
• Tuiburelevu, L., Lotoa, E., Ieremia, I., Wagner-Hiliau, H., & Coxon-Brayen, G. (2023).  Pacific peoples and the criminal justice system in Aotearoa New Zealand: Report One. Michael & Suzanne Borrin Foundation, University of Auckland.
   
• Tuiburelevu, L., Lotoa, E., Ieremia, I., & Coxon-Brayen, G. (2023). Pacific peoples and the criminal justice system in Aotearoa New Zealand: Report Two.  Michael & Suzanne Borrin Foundation, University of Auckland.
   
• Webb, R. (2009). Māori, Pacific peoples and the social construction of crime statistics. MAI Review, 3.
   
• Webb, R., Suaalii-Sauni, T., Wright-Bardohl, T., & Tauri, J.  (2022). Building understandings of Maori and Samoan experiences of youth justice: Navigating beyond the limits of official statistics. New Zealand Sociology, 37(1), 70-92.

NZ Police and Racial Profiling

• Mossman, E. (2010). Research to validate the New Zealand Police Youth Offending Risk Sceening Tool (YORST) phase 1: Screening and assessment of young offenders risk of recidivism: Literature review. New Zealand Police.
   
• Police deny racial profiling after accounts of youths being stopped and photographed. (2021, March 9). RNZ News.
   
• Police launch investigation into ‘unconscious bias’ against Māori. (2021, March 16). RNZ News.
   
• Taiuru, K. (2021, July 21). Growing concerns over ‘biased’ software use by NZ Police [TV series episode]. In Te Ao Māori News. Whakaata Māori.

Personal evidence from Pacific people given to the Royal Commission can be listened to online: 
Public hearings: Tulou: Our Pacific voices: Tatala e Pulonga. 
Warning: Much of the content presented at the hearing covers details of abuse that may raise difficult emotional issues. 

Some viewpoints & attitudes: Pasifika & Palagi

• Bridgman, G. (2017). Perceptions of community safety in West Auckland and White fragility. Whanake: The Pacific Journal of Community Development, 3(2), 20-30. https://www.researchbank.ac.nz/handle/10652/4026 
   
• Loto, R., Hodgetts, D., Chamberlain, K., Nikora, L. W., Karapu, R., & Barnett, A. (2006). Pasifika in the news: The portrayal of Pacific peoples in the New Zealand pressJournal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 16(2), 100-118. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.848 
   
• Nakhid, C. (2012). 'Which side of the bridge to safety?' how young Pacific Islanders in New Zealand view their South Auckland community. Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, 7(1), 14-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/1177083X.2012.670652  
   
• Nakhid, C. (2009). The meaning of family and home for young Pasifika people involved in gangs in the suburbs of South Auckland. Social Policy Journal of New Zealand, 35, 112-128.
   

Offending and Interventions

Offending

• Ioane, J., & Lambie, I. (2016). Pacific youth and violent offending in Aotearoa New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Psychology, 45(3), 23-29.
   
• Ioane, J., Lambie, I., & Percival, T. (2013). A review of the literature on Pacific Island youth offending in New Zealand. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 18(4), 426-433. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avb.2013.05.002 
   
• Ioane, J., Lambie, I., & Percival, T. (2016). A comparison of Pacific, Māori, and European violent youth offenders in New Zealand. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 60(6), 657-674. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624X14560725  
   
• Paterson, J., Feehan, M., Butler, S., Williams, M., & Cowley-Malcolm, E. T. (2007). Intimate partner violence within a cohort of Pacific mothers living in New Zealand. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 22(6), 698-721. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260507300596
   
• Ravulo, J. J. (2009). The development of anti-social behaviour in Pacific youth. [Doctoral thesis, University of Western Sydney]. https://researchdirect.westernsydney.edu.au/islandora/object/uws:8264   
   
• Shepherd, S. M., & Ilalio, T. (2016). Maori and Pacific Islander overrepresentation in the Australian criminal justice system-what are the determinants? Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 55(2), 113-128. https://doi.org/10.1080/10509674.2015.1124959 
   

Interventions

• Havea, S., Alefaio-Tugia, S., & Hodgetts, D. (2021). Fofola e Fala ka e Talanoa e Kainga: A Tongan approach to family violence prevention and intervention. Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology, 15, 1-12.
   
• Havea, S., Alefaio-Tugia, S., & Hodgetts, D. (2021). 'kainga' (families) experiences of a Tongan-indigenous faith-based violence-prevention programme.  AlterNative, 17(1), 83-93. https://doi.org/10.1177/1177180121994924
   
• Ioane, J., Tofaeono, R., & Lambie, I. (2021). Pasifika youth with harmful sexual behaviour differ from other young people and need a different response. New Zealand Journal of Psychology, 50(3), 17-28
   
• Seiuli, B. M. S. (2013). Counselling psychology from a Samoan perspective. New Zealand Journal of Psychology, 42(3), 50-58. 
   
• Seiuli, B. M. S. (2016). Moetolo 'sleep-crawlers': A Samoan therapeutic approach to sexual abuse. Sexual Abuse in Australia and New Zealand, 7(1), 31-42. 
   
• Tuala-Warren, L. (2002). A study into the ifoga: Samoa’s answer to dispute healing. (Te Mātāhauariki Institute Occasional Paper No. 4), University of Waikato.  
   
• Tuimavave, L. (2017) The Pasifika Youth Court: A discussion of the features and whether they can be transferred [Undergraduate Student Research Paper], Victoria University of Wellington. http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/handle/10063/7988