AIC Conference Proceedings

No. 22: National Conference on Juvenile Justice : proceedings of a conference held 22-24 September 1992

Lynn Atkinson and Sally-Anne Gerull (eds.)
ISBN 0 642 19620 6 ; ISSN 1034-5086
Canberra : Australian Institute of Criminology, 1993

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.

Contents

• Contributors (PDF 106kB)
• Preface (PDF 14kB)
  Lynn Atkinson

Juvenile justice : issues and overviews

• Opening address
  Michael Tate
• Preventing juvenile crime
  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
  Jonathon 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 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