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Young people as victims of crime

Other resources

Links

• The Australian Childhood Foundation
   Provides current, innovative and practical professional development programs incorporating a neurobiology and trauma framework
• Austalian Institute of Family Studies
  Conducts research and communicatesfindings that effect family wellbeing
  
• The wellbeing of young Australians : technical report
  Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth
• Bursting the bubble
  Domestic Violence & Incest Resource Centre, Victoria. Resource to support young people who are witnessing domestic violence or who are directly subjected to child abuse or neglect
• Child Rights Information Network (CRIN)
  A global network that disseminates information about the Convention on the Rights of the Child and child rights to government agencies, NGOs, educational institutions and other chid rights experts
• Crimes Against Children Research Centre
  University of New Hampshire

Reports and papers

• Australia's homeless youth : a report of the National Youth Commission Inquiry into Youth Homelessness
  National Youth Commission, Brunswick, Vic : National Youth Commission. 2008
• Volatile substance misuse : a review of interventions
  Peter d'Abbs and Sarah MacLean, Canberra : Department of Health and Ageing. 2008
• Reaching and serving teen victims : a practical handbook (PDF 2.3MB)
  US National Crime Prevention Council, National Center for Victims of Crime, Office for Victims of Crime
• How the justice system responds to juvenile victims : a comprehensive model (PDF 417kB)
  David Finkelhor, Theodore P Cross and Elise N Cantor. Juvenile justice bulletin, Dec 2005
• Child victimisation : tracking from incident report to finalisation in court : some methododological issues (PDF 1.16MB)
  Joy Wundersitz. South Australia Office of Crime Statistics and Research, 2004
• Investing in youth : preventing crime and victimization (PDF 527kB)
  Margaret Shaw. International Centre for the Prevention of Crime, 2001
• Young people as victims of violence : a discussion paper
  Boronia Halstead. Report to the National Youth Affairs Research Scheme, 1992

Recent publications

• Misperceptions about child sex offenders
  30 September 2011
• Online interactions involving suspected paedophiles who engage male children
  10 December 2010
• Child complainants and the court process in Australia
  06 August 2009
• Intrafamilial adolescent sex offenders: psychological profile and treatment
  22 July 2009
• Child victims of homicide
  04 December 2008

Recent events

• Young people, risk and resilience: The challenges of alcohol, drugs and violence conference
  07 March 2011
• Child sexual abuse : justice response or alternative resolution
  01 May 2003
• Children and crime : victims and offenders
  11 June 1999
• Children as witnesses
  03 May 1988