ACAP Learning Resources: JALE3904 Youth Justice: Case Study

Case Study 2024, T1

Note: R (Stands for Rex/Regina/The Crown) or The Queen in the party names. This indicates that it is a criminal case.
DPP, CDPP or Director of Public Prosecutions - may also indicate that it is a criminal case.
Children's names are not published. Their initials are used instead.

Court Judgments NSW
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Select Children's Court from the check boxes in the lower section of the page and type the word criminal in the free-text box.
Children's Court of QLD
Look for R (Stands for Rex/Regina/The Crown) or The Queen in the party names. These indicate criminal cases.
Note: Children's names are not published. Their initials are used instead.
Children's Court of Victoria
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Select criminal division >
Browse for cases.
Note: Children's names are not published. Their initials are used instead.
Children's Court of WA
TSM (A Child)
[2019] WASCA 79
Anyone referred to by their initials was underage at the time of this offence.
PRM (a child)
[2019] WASC 139
News from Google
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Search for the following:
- After a life of neglect, he was the youngest Australian charged with murder.
Report: Doing Time - Time for Doing: Indigenous youth in the criminal justice system.
House Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs. (2011). Doing Time - Time for Doing: Indigenous youth in the criminal justice system. Parliament of Australia

Keyword Searching on Ebook Central
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Log in using your ACAP student portal log in details >
Try the following keyword searches:
- Juvenile Justice: Youth and Crime in Australia (see ch. 2 & 10)
- Crime and Justice: A Guide to Criminology (see chapter on youth and crime)
- Crime, Criminality and Criminal Justice eBook (ch. 19)
- Australia's Children's Courts Today and Tomorrow
- Youth, Crime, and Justice : Learning through Cases (contains lots of case study examples - see table of contents (read to see how they have structured/presented these cases)).
Click on the book title and then click on read online to open a book. When you open the book, if the table contents are messy, click on the iii lying on the side (above the star - upper left) to reset the table of contents.

Articles on AustLII
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Search for the following article (a few articles should appear for this search):
- "three dogmas of juvenile justice"

Try the following keyword search on AustLII:
"youth justice" AND rehabilitation AND Australia

Keyword Searching on SAGE
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Log in using your ACAP student portal Login details >
Ensure the 'Only content to which I have full access' button is selected >
Try the following keyword search:
sentencing juveniles AND Australia
juvenile justice AND Australia

Australian Institute of Criminology
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Try the following keyword search:
sentencing juveniles
juveniles AND indictable

Search for the following article on the AIC website:
- What makes juvenile offenders different from adult offenders

Keyword Searching on Taylor & Francis
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Try the following keyword searches:
"juvenile detention" Australia
juveniles sentencing Australia
youth sentencing "foetal alcohol"
youth justice principles Australia
"youth justice" rehabilitation Australia
After the results have loaded, click on the 'Only show content I have full access to' box on the left and wait for the results to reload.

Search for the following article:
- Principles in diversion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people from the criminal jurisdiction

AIHW: Children and crime
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2022, February 25). Australia's children: Children and crime.
AIHW: Youth Justice
AIC: Juvenile offenders
Report: Doing Time - Time for Doing_ Indigenous youth in the criminal justice system
House Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs. (2011). Doing Time - Time for Doing: Indigenous youth in the criminal justice system. Parliament of Australia