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Conference Papers

Preventing juvenile crime

Christopher Sumner

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

Sumner discusses the need for a change in the criminal justice system, supplemented by effective crime prevention initiatives. He believes there is pressure to redress the balance away from the welfare model towards the justice or deterrence model for dealing with young offenders. He details the South Australian Crime Prevention Strategy and looks at the current status of juvenile crime in that state.