Conferences

Children and crime : victims and offenders

Parkroyal, Brisbane
17-18 June 1999

Contents

• Introduction
• Conference papers

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