Young people, crime and community safety : engagement and early intervention

• RACV Club Melbourne, 25-26 February 2008

Conference aim

Many young people are disproportionately involved in risk-taking, antisocial behaviours and other activities which compromise their safety and the safety of others. They are also highly at risk of experiencing reduced opportunities in life through the influence of such factors as low educational attainment, early school leaving, involvement with the law, low socioeconomic status, ethnicity and disability.

Papers

• The Geelong night watch radio program
  Paper. Lisa Armstrong-Rowe, City of Greater Geelong, Victoria
• Interventions that work: dealing with young people in conflict with the law
  Paper. Judge Paul Grant, President of the Children's Court of Victoria
• Risk/needs assessment and response to criminogenic factors with young people
  Paper. Rosalind Harris, Senior Program Adviser, Youth Services and Youth Justice Department of Human Services, Victoria
• Creating positive change through community linkages
  Paper. Pam Mansfield, Co-ordinator XLR8 Mentoring Program, Victoria
• Cyber crime and safety for youth and other vulnerable groups
  Paper. Chris O'Connor, Detective Senior Sergeant, Victoria Police
• Preventing sexual violence? Issues in program evaluation
  Paper. Dr Anastasia Powell, University of Melbourne and Renee Imbesi, CASA House

Presentations

• The Geelong night watch radio program (PDF 86kB)
  Presentation. Lisa Armstrong-Rowe, City of Greater Geelong, Victoria
• 2pic : young people, harm reduction and the arts - creating a community resource (PDF 802kB)
  Presentation. Emma Bishop, Youth Support Officer, Mornington Peninsula Shire, Victoria
• Boys and girls behaving badly: young people and alcohol management in Queensland (PDF 1.2MB)
  Presentation. Gordana Blazevic, Managing Director, Blaze Consulting
• Stairways profiles research: Out of crime key enablement tools (PDF 6.8MB)
  Presentation. Gwyneth Boswell, University of East Anglia, UK
• Joined up service delivery - working more effectively with young people (PDF 410MB)
  Presentation. Sherri Bruinhout, Frontyard Youth Services, Melbourne, Victoria
• Diverting Indigenous youths from the criminal justice system (PDF 149kB)
  Presentation. Dr Colleen Bryant and Jacqueline Joudo, Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra
• What young people think (PDF 266kB)
  Presentation. David Chalke, Quantum Research
• Domestic violence - it's not our game! (PDF 477kB)
  Presentation. Wendy Cochrane, Senior Community Crime Prevention Officer, Queensland Police Service
• Puppets to the rescue!! (PDF 451kB)
  Presentation. Wendy Cochrane, Senior Community Crime Prevention Officer, Queensland Police Service
• Keeping the young and the reckless safe: lessons learnt (PDF 947kB)
  Presentation. Carolyn Coggan, Director, Safe Communities Foundation NZ
• A framework for creating youth friendly parks within master planned communities (PDF 297kB)
  Presentation. Victoria Cook, Urban Designer - Community Development, Delfin Lend Lease
• Project oriented school mentoring (PDF 297kB)
  Presentation. Glenn Cullen - Menslink, ACT
• Aggression replacement training (ART) Australia. Preliminary evaluation findings (PDF 297kB)
  Presentation. Matt Currie, Swinburne University of Technology, Victoria
• Young people's health service (PDF 297kB)
  Presentation. Tim Fry, Centre for Adolescent Health
• Risk/Needs assessment and response to criminogenic factors with young people (PDF 297kB)
  Presentation. Rosalind Harris, Senior Program Adviser, Youth Services and Youth Justice Department of Human Services, Victoria
• Making young people safe on our roads. The role of communications (PDF 297kB)
  Presentation. David Healy, Senior Manager, Road Safety, Transport Accident Commission, Victoria
• Factors that influence violence in young Australians: Are they the same in Australia and the United States? (PDF 255kB)
  Presentation. Dr Sheryl Hemphill, Researcher Centre for Adolescent Health & School of Psychology, Deakin University
• Diverting young offenders in Victoria: The Victoria Police cautioning program for juveniles (PDF 103kB)
  Presentation. Shasta Holland, University of Melbourne
• It's better to be safe and sober: working with young people to create healthier, safer communities (PDF 1.2MB)
  Presentation. Dr Clarissa Hughes, University of Tasmania
• Creating positive change through community linkages (PDF 200kB)
  Presentation. Pam Mansfield, Co-ordinator XLR8 Mentoring Program, Victoria
• Community violence among young people (PDF 176kB)
  Presentation. Lauren Martin, Project Officer, Injury Control Council of Western Australia
• Family community group conferencing (PDF 861kB)
  Presentation. Angela McCullagh, Upper Hume Community Health Service
• Survival on the roads. A program to develop safer young drivers and passengers (PDF 4MB)
  Presentation. Kerry Montero, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
• Review of community services working with Pacific young offenders (PDF 238kB)
  Presentation. Jioji Ravulo, University of Western Sydney
• Youth referral and independent person program (PDF 144kB)
  Presentation. Sally Reid, Project Manager, Centre for Multicultural Youth Issues
• The Victorian youth justice group conferencing program (PDF 628kB)
  Presentation. Cord Sadler, Youth Services and Youth Justice, Department of Human Services, Victoria
• Cannabis and police diversion of juveniles and young people (PDF 112kB)
  Presentation. Dr Julia Tresidder, Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra
• Operation Newstart Western (PDF 2.5MB)
  Presentation. Phillip Wood, Tavancore School
• Open family australia - Cabrini youth outreach bus (PDF 3.9MB)
  Presentation. Mark Young, Menslink