Ms Elena Campbell1 1Centre For Innovative Justice, Melbourne, Australia The community rightly calls for a strong justice response to all forms of family violence. Yet this response – originally designed to address adult intimate partner violence – can have disastrous...
- March 18, 2019
Ms Phyllis Meier1, Mr Michael Williams2 1Oranga Tamariki, Wellington, New Zealand, 2Youth Horizons Trust| Kia Pūawai, Auckland, New Zealand Three government agencies, Oranga Tamariki, Corrections and Police have formed strategic partnerships with Youth Horizons and the Functional Family Therapy model...
- March 18, 2019
Mr Allan Boreham1, Ms Liz Marsden2 1Oranga Tamariki, Wellington, New Zealand, 2Ngapuhi Iwi Social Services, Te Tai Tokerau, New Zealand 30 years ago the Children, Young Persons and their Families Act was enacted with a promise of radical change for...
- March 18, 2019
Mr Luke Francis1, Ms Amanda White2 1Youth Justice, Adelaide, Australia, 2Youth Justice, Adelaide , Australia Young people in contact with the Youth Justice system typically exhibit needs related to offending behaviour including emotional dysregulation, antisocial attitudes and peers, substance abuse,...
- March 18, 2019
Young people as perpetrators of domestic and family violence in NSW: Offenders, victims and context.
Ms Karen Freeman1 1NSW Bureau Of Crime Statistics And Research, Sydney, Australia There is an extensive body of criminological research examining the offending behaviour of young people; their characteristics, offending trajectories and the nature of their offending. Likewise, an extensive...
- March 18, 2019
Ms Victoria Williams1, Ms Sasha Greenoff1 1Aboriginal Legal Service Of Western Australia, Perth, Australia Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are one of the most imprisoned groups in the world. WA has the highest rate of overrepresentation of Aboriginal and...
- March 18, 2019
Dr Susan Baidawi1 1Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Children who come to the attention of statutory Child Protection services due to abuse, neglect and parental incapacity are twelve times more likely to offend and come under the supervision of Youth Justice...
- March 18, 2019
Dr Rohan Borschmann1, Ms. Holly Tibble2, A/Prof. Matthew Spittal1, Mr. Alexander Love1, Prof. Stuart Kinner3 1University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 2University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, 3Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia Background: We aimed to estimate the suicide rate in...
- March 18, 2019
Ms Grace O’Brien1 1Phd Candidate University Of Technology Sydney, , Australia Despite ample international literature regarding the school-to-prison pipeline, juvenile justice researchers in the Australian context have remained relatively silent about this phenomenon. While there are considerable studies investigating the...
- March 18, 2019
Dr Danielle Harris1, Ms Stephanie McInerney 1Dr Danielle Harris, Mt Gravatt, Australia This study replicates recent work by Levenson et al., (2017) and Hall et al., (2018) to provide a cultural comparison of self-reported Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in a...
- March 18, 2019