Youth justice
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Cathy McLennan, who represented Indigenous young offenders as a barrister for two decades, says real solutions can only be found outside the courtroom
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Follow a 13-year-old Indigenous boy through the youth justice system and see what happens when he is cautioned, charged or placed in custody
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A negative outcome arises when young people who need counselling and support are instead locked up for 23 hours a day
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Hugh de Kretzer says ‘essential preconditions’ for a youth justice facility ‘have not been met and cannot be met’
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Premier Daniel Andrews announces youth justice centre at Werribee South with capacity for 224 detainees
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State risks creating a system so punitive that it could lead to a crisis on a par with Don Dale, criminal experts warn
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Government-commissioned review says change in law could help reduce reoffending rates
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Five out of six Australian girls believe they are not given the same chances in life as boys. No society can thrive if half its people can’t achieve their potential
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Letter: My hope is that politicians can get away from the retributive justice that has defined Britain’s response to youth crime since the murder of my son, Jimmy, in 2008
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It would be easy to be cynical but a bunch of enthusiastic young people advocating for a better world can’t be a bad thing
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Teens in low-income communities, overlooked by childhood nutrition policies, do sex work, save school lunches, sell drugs and join gangs for food, report says
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I was a child in care. We needed love, not chemicals
David AkinsanyaThe news about drug trials on disruptive children sends shivers down my spine. At my home kids were on another planet due to medication – and I could have been one of them -
Teenage boys at school in North Yorkshire given anticonvulsant drug Beclamide in attempt to improve behaviour
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Report on former G4S-run centre reveals growing levels of violence and access to pornography among catalogue of problems
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Pennsylvania frees four men in their 50s and 60s amid new hope for thousands across US after supreme court banned mandatory life terms for minors
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How young is too young? Charged, tried, and imprisoned at the age of 10
Kate Fitz-Gibbon and Wendy O'BrienThe vast majority of children will grow out of offending behaviour, yet those who are criminalised are at a heightened risk of repeat offending
Topics
- Prisons
- Young people
- Indigenous Australians
- Indigenous incarceration
- UK criminal justice
- Children
- Prisons and probation
- Northern Territory
- Royal commission into the protection and detention of children in the Northern Territory
- Membership (Australia)
- Victoria
- Northern Territory politics
- Indigenous peoples
- Australian law
- Crime
- Victorian politics
- Child protection
- New South Wales
- G4S
- Daniel Andrews
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