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

Understanding Policing Delivery (UPD). "A programme to understand whether, and how, Police service deliver may differ for people based on their ethicity, disability, sexuality or other characteristics of who they are." Includes the first seven reports, 2024.

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.

Royal Commission of Enquiry into Abuse in Care: Pacific People's Experiences 

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

•  O le tōfā mamao – A Sāmoan Conceptual Framework for addressing family violence 2012

• 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