Library Resources for Criminology/Policing & Justice: Youth Justice

Links to youth justice agencies in Australia and New Zealand.

Hosted by the Australian Institute of Criminology.

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Published by the Australian Institute of Criminology.

Published by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

By Rick Sarre, The Conversation, 27/07/16
The use of surveillance cameras raises difficult issues for the law in balancing privacy with exposure that is in the public interest – and perhaps it's time that balance was reviewed.

By Bernadette McSherry, The Conversation, 26/07/16.
Monday night’s ABC Four Corners program on the treatment of detainees in juvenile detention in the Northern Territory was devastating viewing. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s subsequent announcement of a royal commission to investigate is to be applauded.

By Brian Stout, The Conversation, 27/07/16
The abuse at Don Dale detention centre has been known for some time, but nothing has been done about it.

The Age, 26/07/16. Disturbing footage has emerged of a 17-year-old boy, one of six boys tear-gassed at a juvenile detention centre near Darwin, being strapped to a mechanical restraint chair.

By Fergus Hunter, The Age, 26/07/16.
A "shocked and appalled" Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has called a royal commission into the abuse of youths in the Northern Territory corrections system the morning after explosive revelations aired on the ABC's Four Corners program.

ABC, 26/07/16. What happens next after the Prime Minister announced a royal commission into Northern Territory juvenile detention? Here's seven things we still don't know.

by Jane Cornwell, Daily Life, 09/02/13.

Judgments - Reg. v. Secretary of State for the Home Department, Ex parte V. and Reg. v. Secretary of State for the Home Department, Ex parte T,12/06/97.

Crime facts info no. 106. Australian Institute of Criminology.

Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, No.181.

By Thomas Crofts

By Kelly Richards, Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, No.409.

Practical Lessons, Fair Consequences: Improving Diversion for Young People in Victoria: Discussion Paper, Department of Justice, Melbourne 2012.

Response to the Department of Justice Discussion Paper Practical Lessons, Fair Consequences: Improving Diversion for Young People in Victoria, Brotherhood of St Lawrence, 2012.

By Kim Cragin, RANS, 2015.

Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 44/25 of 20 November 1989.

Moffitt, TE 1993, 'Adolescence-Limited and Life-Course-Persistent Antisocial Behavior: A Developmental Taxonomy,' Psychological Review, vol.100, pp.674-701

See part three on crime prevention and victim issues.

Hosted by the Sentencing Advisory Council, Vic, 2012.

Published by Terre des Hommes, 2014.

Published in The Age, 20/05/15.

Ombudsman Victoria, 2010.

Hosted by the Sentencing Advisory Council, Vic, 2016.

The criminal justice system is failing to support young adults adequately by not offering a distinct approach that recognises their development and varying levels of maturity, finds a report published by the Transition to Adulthood (T2A) Alliance and the Howard League for Penal Reform.
Howard League for Penal Reform 2015, You can’t put a number on it: A report from young adults on why in criminal justice maturity is more important than age, Howard League for Penal Reform, London.

Sentencing Advisory Council 2012, Sentencing Children and Young People in Victoria, Sentencing Advisory Council, Victoria.

Published by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

Published by the Victorian Law Reform Commission, 2010.