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Juvenile justice : the need to ask the right questions

John Seymour

Published in:
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
(AIC Conference Proceedings; no. 22)

Abstract

Seymour seeks to outline some coherent grounds for rationale debate and enduring reforms regarding the juvenile justice system, by asking some fundamental questions: Is it reasonable to expect the juvenile justice system to provide solutions for wider community ills? What are the specific problems in the current system? Should we have more or less intervention? Who should be the decision makers?