JALE3904 Youth Justice

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- Juvenile Justice : Youth and Crime in Australia (see ch. 9 and any other useful chapter)
- Australian Policing : Critical Issues in 21st Century Police Practice (ch. 7 & 23)

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- How 'vulnerable' young people describe their interactions with police
- Juvenile justice diversion in Victoria: A blank canvas

Green, R., Gray, R. M., Bryant, J., Rance, J., & MacLean, S. (2020). Police decision-making with young offenders: Examining barriers to the use of diversion options. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 53(1), 137–154. https://doi.org/10.1177/0004865819879736

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- Juvenile Justice : Youth and Crime in Australia (see part II and any other useful chapter)

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- Juvenile Delinquency: An integrated approach (ch. 5)

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- Cultural group differences in social disadvantage, offence characteristics, and experience of childhood trauma and psychopathology in incarcerated juvenile offenders in NSW, Australia
- Toward children’s cognitive development from the perspective of neurolaw

Moulds, L., Day, A., Mayshak, R., Mildred, H., & Miller, P. (2019). Adolescent violence towards parents: Prevalence and characteristics using Australian police data. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 52(2), 231–249. https://doi.org/10.1177/0004865818781206

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2022, March 31). Youth justice in Australia 2020-21.

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- What makes juvenile offenders different from adult offenders

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- Juvenile Justice : Youth and Crime in Australia (see ch. 1 from p. 21 in particular, and any other useful section)
- Australia's Children's Courts Today and Tomorrow (ch. 12 - nexus between care and crime may be applicable)

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- The ideological context of changing juvenile justice
- Challenging the logics of reformism and humanism in juvenile justice rhetoric
- Towards a global ‘child friendly’ juvenile justice
- Law and norm: Justice administration and the human sciences in early juvenile justice in Victoria
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- Juvenile Justice : Youth and Crime in Australia (see ch. 2, and any other useful section)
- Juvenile Delinquency: Theory, Research, and the Juvenile Justice Process
- The Handbook of Juvenile Delinquency and Juvenile Justice (see part III)

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- Theories of delinquency : an examination of explanations of delinquent behavior

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- Juvenile Delinquency: An integrated approach (Part III)

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- Juvenile Justice : Youth and Crime in Australia
- Australia's Children's Courts Today and Tomorrow (ch. 12)

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- Juvenile justice, young people and human rights in Australia
- Youth (in) justice and the COVID-19 pandemic: Rethinking incarceration through a public health lens
- Can human rights standards counter Australia's punitive youth justice practices

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- The child's best interest: A review of Australian juvenile justice legislation
- The globalization of crime control—the case of youth and juvenile justice: Neo-liberalism, policy convergence and international conventions
- Abandoning Identity Protection for Juvenile Offenders (see section called Revisiting those international protections)
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Youth justice in Australia: Themes from recent inquiries