Abstract
This national conference was part of the on-going process of reform in juvenile justice, in a climate of popular concern about rising levels of juvenile crime. Issues discussed at the conference included: juvenile justice programs in various jurisdictions; juvenile justice legislation; education of juveniles while under detention; the policing of young people; and crime prevention and community-based corrections.
Proceedings of a conference held 22-24 September 1992
Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
Lynn Atkinson
Juvenile justice: issues and overviews
- Opening address
Michael Tate - Preventing juvenile crime
The Honourable Christopher Sumner - Juvenile justice: the need to ask the right questions
John Seymour - Juvenile offending: new theory and practice
John Braithwaite - The courts, the judiciary and new directions: the limits of legislative change
Kate Warner - Some trends in officially recorded youth offending: a state-by-state comparison
Joy Wundersitz - Jobs, not gaols: a new agenda for youth
Kenneth Polk
Jurisdictional perspectives: Australia and New Zealand
- Juvenile justice - the Western Australian experience
Hal Jackson - Juvenile justice in New Zealand
Michael J. A. Brown - Family decision-making in youth justice: the New Zealand model
Gabrielle M. Maxwell - Issues in juvenile justice in Queensland: new laws, old visions
Ian O'Connor - Sentencing reviews for juvenile offenders: the need for a judicial mechanism
Margaret Allison and Stephen Armitage - Juvenile justice in New South Wales: new directions
Ian Graham - Contact with the justice system over the juvenile years
Frank Morgan
The policing of young people
- Young people, community space and social control
Rob White - Facing the consequences
David Moore - Wagga Wagga juvenile cautioning program: "it may be the way to go!"
Terry O'Connell - Policing juveniles: an overseas and Western Australian perspective
Robert C. Kucera - The NYARS report: the police
Rob White - Police cautioning - effective diversion or expedience?
Ann Lewis and Clement O'Regan
Aboriginal young people and juvenile justice
- Aboriginal juveniles and the juvenile justice system in New South Wales
Garth Luke and Chris Cunneen - Aboriginal youth, police and the juvenile justice system in Western Australia
Lynn Atkinson - The role of the media in the juvenile justice debate in Western Australia
Charlotte Stockwell
Programs and services for young people
- Future directions for girls in custody
Lynda Saville - Services for young women - future directions
Christine Alder - A training plan concept for "yesterday's tomorrows": towards a coordinated and integrated model of vocational education and training in juvenile detention centres
Doug Hubble and Ross Goodlet - Educational provision for young people in custody: a review of provision and coordination in NSW juvenile justice centres
Sara Thorley Smith - Delinquency and homelessness: towards an integrated response
Lesley Podesta and Peter Jones - Logan Youth Legal Service - within an integrated service for young people
Lawrie Moynihan - A mental health perspective on juvenile justice
Jon Jureidini - Where's the justice?: young people, mental health, and the law
Roger Hearn - Street Legal
Roger Welsh
Crime prevention and community based corrections
- Queensland's juvenile crime prevention initiative - YACCA - Youth and Community Combined Action
Michael Tansky - Towards a national perspective on Australian youth crime prevention
Garry Coventry and Reece Walters - Schools and juvenile crime prevention
Paul Omojo Omaji - Youth in action: empowering young people for community change
John Engel and Julia Young - Victim-Offender Mediation Program (VOMP)
Evi Kadar - Diversionary programs in operation in Victoria
Vaughan Duggan - Preventative and diversionary programs in Western Australia
Paul Bartholomew - Visions for the future
Sue Vardon