Speakers:
- Associate Professor Tamasailau Suaalli-Sauni
- Naomi Fuamatu
- Dr Robert Webb
- Associate Professor Juan Tauri
When: Friday 29 July, 1-2pm
Where: OGGB Case Room 2 (260-057), University of Auckland
Independent research on Samoan and Māori rangatahi experiences youth justice policies in Aotearoa New Zealand is rare. For this reason, in 2016 criminologists from the University of Auckland, Associate Professor Tamasailau Suaalli-Sauni and Dr Robert Webb, along with Dr Juan Tauri (then with the University of Wollongong, now with the Public Policy Institute, University of Auckland) applied for and were successful in gaining a Marsden Grant to research this issue. The focus of the seminar is to report on the key findings from the research, with the session broken into two parts. In part I, Associate Professor Suaalii-Sauni and doctoral candidate Naomi Fuamatu will discuss fieldwork challenges and preliminary themes arising from the Samoan data, while in part II, Associate Professor Tauri and Dr Webb will discuss rangatahi Māori experiences of policing and court-related policies and interventions.
The Presenters
Tamasailau Suaalli-Sauni is an Associate Professor in Criminology at the University of Auckland. Her research and teaching interests include Pacific indigenous jurisprudence and Pacific indigenous research methodologies.
Robert Webb (Ngāti Hine) is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Auckland. His research and teaching interests include criminal justice policies and Māori, youth justice, Indigenous criminology, Māori and organ donation.
Naomi Fuamatu is a doctoral candidate with the University of Auckland’s criminology programme. Her research and professional interests include Pacific equity policy and practice, and Pacific youth and youth culture. Her doctoral thesis focuses on the interactions between youth justice systems and different models of family.
Juan Tauri (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Tuwharetoa) is an Associate Professor in the Public Policy Institute at the University of Auckland. Juan’s research focuses on critical analysis of settler-colonial state responses to the inter-related wicked (policy) problems of Indigenous over-representation in criminal justice processes, and Indigenous critique of, and resistance to, state-centred crime control policies and interventions.
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