Community Policing and the Syrian Refugee Community in Wellington District

Author: Tohill, Yvette
Published in National Security Journal, 08 March 2021

54 Te Pae Oranga Panels are a New Zealand Police and Maori initiative which utilises a Maori Community Panel to address low level offending as an alternative to the court-based adversarial justice system historically utilised.

55 Darren Walton, Samara Martin and Judy Li. “Iwi community justice panels reduce harm from re-of­fending,” Kotuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, 15, no. 1 (2020): 90. https://doi.org/10.1080/1177083X.2019.1642921.

56 New Zealand Red Cross. “Refugee Youth Resettlement Report,” 21.

57 Steven P. Lab, Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices and Evaluations, 9th ed., (New York: Routledge, 2016), 245.

58 Ho, Cooper and Rauschmayer, Ethnic Community Perceptions, 16.

59 Skogan, “Community Policing,” 29.

60 Fitzgerald, “Ngā wāhine kaha,” 99.

61 New Zealand Police. “Working Together with Ethnic Communities – the Future: Police Ethnic Strat­egy,” Accessed 26 April 2020. https://www.police.govt.nz/about-us/publication/working-together-eth­nic-communities-future.

62 Ben-Porat, “Policing multicultural states,” 421-422.

63 Kadri, “Resettling the Unsettled,” 156-157.

64 Skogan, “Community Policing,” 31.

65 Heyer, “New Zealand Police,” 249.

66 Skogan, “Community Policing,” 29.

67 Heyer, “New Zealand Police,” 249.  

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