Conferences
Children and crime : victims and offenders
Parkroyal, Brisbane
17-18 June 1999
Contents
Introduction
This conference examined children as both victims and offenders of crime. Child development, social issues, interventions, policy, criminal justice, legal issues, and the courts and corrections systems are discussed.
Conference papers
CHILDREN AS VICTIMS
- Opening address
Senator The Hon Amanda Vanstone, Minister for Justice and Customs - Keynote address - Children and victimisation - local responses to global concerns
Carmel Niland, Director-General, Department of Community Services, New South Wales - Children and the court system
The Hon Justice Linda Dessau, Family Court of Australia
Development
- Reducing and preventing violence in schools
Assoc Prof Simon Petrie and Dr Gayre Christie, Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Queensland; and Carol Christie, Moreton Institute of TAFE, Queensland - Early intervention - crime prevention
Melanie Brown and Judy Putt, Project Development Officers, National Crime Prevention, Commonwealth Attorney General's Department - What harm does bullying do?
Dr Ken Rigby, University of South Australia, South Australia
Social groups
- The missing person dimension
Dr Monika Henderson and Peter Henderson, Consultants, M&P Henderson and Associates; and Carole Kiernan, Australian Bureau of Criminal Intelligence - Spatial clustering of child maltreatment : are micro-social environments involved?
Prof Tony Vinson and Dr Eileen Baldry, School of Social Work, University of New South Wales - The commercial sexual exploitation of children
Anna Grant, Dr Peter Grabosky and Fiona David, Australian Institute of Criminology
Programs
- Interagency approach to child abuse
Pam Cameron, Department of Families, Youth and Community Care; Dr Richard Roylance, Queensland Health, Queensland; and Det Supt John Reilly, Queensland Police Service - Working with individuals and families where sibling incest has occurred : the dynamics, dilemmas and practice implications
Susan Rayment, Sexual Abuse Counselling Service, Queensland; and Nicole Owen, Logan Women's Health Centre, Queensland
Legal
- From charges to finalisations : the need for data tracking across the legal process for cases involving child complainants
Julie Harcourt, Queensland Children's Commission, Queensland - The Children (Protection and Parental Responsibility) Act 1997 (NSW) - implementation issues
Lisa Hayes, New South Wales Police Service, New South Wales; Julia Taparell, Department of Community Services, New South Wales; and Chris Shipway, Attorney-General's Department, New South Wales - The child witness : preparation and support
Dr Richard Roylance and Cheryl Scanlon, Protect All Children Today, Queensland
Policy issues
- Internet and child victimisation
Marni Feather, Queensland Police Service - Children and loss
Judith Murray, University of Queensland - Project Axis
Tim Carmody, Commissioner, Queensland Crime Commission
Criminal justice issues
- Organizational structure, management and policies of Queensland Police involved with child protection investigations
Det Supt John Reilly, Queensland Police Service - Surviving child sexual abuse and the criminal justice system
Dr Christine Eastwood, W Patton and H Stacy, Queensland University of Technology - Domestic homicides and children who witness them
Betty Taylor, Domestic Violence Service, Gold Coast, Queensland
- Schools and their response to children as victims of crime
Robin Sullivan, Children's Commissioner, Queensland - Families, building communities and preventing crime
Gillian Calvert, Director, Office of Children and Young People, New South Wales - Victims and villains - the same young person
Gwenn Murray, Youth Advocacy Centre, Queensland
CHILDREN AS OFFENDERS
- Youth justice in Queensland
Ken Smith, Director-General, Department of Families, Youth and Community Care, Queensland - Juvenile justice in Western Australia
Annette Wells, Director, Community Based Services, Western Australia
Developmental
- Thinking the problem of youth violence and families
Judith Bessant and Ruth Webber, Australian Catholic University; Rob Watts, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Victoria; and Richard Hil, Department of Justice Studies, Queensland University of Technology
Adolescent offending
- A profile of juvenile offending in Bourke 1980-1992
Esther Alvares, University of Newcastle, New South Wales - Young offenders who are victims of abuse
Rhonda Lang and Bobby Pawagi, Youth Justice Services, Australian Capital Territory - Aboriginal marginalisation and racism in the juvenile justice system
Kerry Graham, Children's Solicitor, Sydney Regional Aboriginal Corporation Legal Service, New South Wales
Social issues
- Children's perpetration of violence in early childhood centres : beyond conflict
Nikki Main, Research Consultant, Australian Capital Territory - Gangs and kinship : gang organisation amongst contemporary Indigenous culture in Western Australia
Acting Det Sen Sgt Duane Bell and Bruce Heathcote, Western Australia Police Service
Interventions
- Community conferencing for juveniles
Sgt Kevin Francis, Queensland Police Service - One2one - a mentoring project for young offenders
Desmond Crowley, Attorney-General's Department, New South Wales; and Shauna McIntyre, YMCA Sydney, New South Wales - Getting the balance right : the policing of young people in New South Wales
Lisa Hayes, New South Wales Police Service
Research/policy
- Recidivism and the juvenile offender
Carlos Carcach, Australian Institute of Criminology - (De)constructing legal personhood with serious young offenders
Terry Bartholomew, School of Psychology, Deakin University, Victoria - Youth and serious violent crime : directions for Australasian researchers into the new milennium
Nadia Boni, Australasian Centre for Policing Research
Courts/corrections
- Sentencing options for juveniles
Judge John Robertson, President, Childrens Court of Queensland, Queensland - Juvenile drug courts
Magistrate Lou Hill, Children's Court, Victoria - Individual and systematic advocacy within a youth detention centre
Alasdair Roy, Office of the Community Advocate, Australian Capital Territory
Rapporteur
- Rapporteurs Report
Jenny Bargen, Department of Juvenile Justice, New South Wales

