Summary
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Family group conferences have a number of advantages, including empowerment of offenders, strengthening families, enhances opportunities for victims, and empowering community control. While FGCs seem to offer something for everybody, there are a number of concerns including due process, pressures to plead guilty, power imbalances, harsh disproportionate penalties, net-widening, double jeopardy and sex discrimination. This paper draws out these concerns as challenges for FGCs to overcome.
Link: www.aic.gov.au/publications/lcj/family/ch7.pdf
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