This report explores how creating overseas travel opportunities for young offenders, or those at risk of offending, are likely to have a positive impact on their lives and personal development. The aim is to provide useful background and practical information to aid the Ka Pai Kaiti Trust as it looks to develop a pilot programme in Gisborne.

For its conclusions and recommendations this report draws on an analysis of documents and other outputs and a limited number of interviews with people working with young offenders in Gisborne and organisations currently providing ‘transformative’ experiences in developing countries.

Young offending is clearly a problem in Gisborne, consists largely of ‘dishonesty’ offences and occurs at a rate which exceeds the Aotearoa/New Zealand national average. The overwhelming majority of offences are perpetrated by young men who self-identify as Maori.

META DATA

Creator | Kaihanga
Ka Pai Kaiti Trust
Year of Creation | Tau
01/11/2012
Creative Commons Licence
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives CC BY-NC-ND
Keywords | Kupu
youth offending, gisborne,
Main Language | Reo Matua
English
Submitter's Rights | Nga Tika o te Kaituku
I represent the publisher or owner organisation of this resource
This Research has
not been formally reviewed for publication by academics at a university
Bibliographic Citation | Whakapuakanga

Tumanawa:Transformation through travel – Developing country experiences for young offenders, progarmme development report, Ka Pai Kaiti Trust, (2012)

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