page_title: Mazengarb Report
section_title: Follow-up
hierarchical_section_title: Mazengarb Report / Follow-up
caption_attribution_description: English: Cover page of the Report of the Juvenile Delinquency Committee of 1955, which followed on from the Mazengarb Report of the previous year. Scanned image downloaded from the book gallery at http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/section27/. A facsimile of the Report of the Juvenile Delinquency Committee at ibiblio
context_page_description: The Mazengarb Report of 1954, formally titled the Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents, resulted from a ministerial inquiry. The report gained its name from the inquiry chairman, Queen's Counsel Ossie Mazengarb. The Report, its origins and its significance still remain key items in the mythology of 1950s New Zealand social history. This is not to deny the importance of the Report; however, its real significance has been obscured by inaccurate accounts in popular histories and newspaper and magazine articles. It is frequently cited as an example case of moral panic in New Zealand.
context_section_description: Parliament responded to the Mazengarb Report with a special select committee appointed on September 28, 1954. Its report (AJHR 1955, I-15) was due to be issued on October 1, 1955.
caption: The cover page of the follow up Report of Juvenile Delinquency Committee (AJHR 1955, I-15).
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