Month: March 2019

Annette Gainsford1 1Charles Sturt University Indigenous cultural competency is identified as an important graduate learning outcome that is supported through the Universities Australia Indigenous Strategy 2017-2020 and is reinforced through current industry standards for justice professionals. Our aim as a...
  • March 26, 2019
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Yvonne Weldon, Manager Aboriginal Strategic Coordination Unit (ASCU), Juvenile Justice NSW, Sydney Juvenile Justice NSW launched the Aboriginal Strategic Plan 2018-2022 (ASP) and Performance Framework in 2018 providing a framework for Aboriginal Engagement.  The ASCU has the responsibility for providing strategic...
  • March 26, 2019
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Gráinne Moss, Chief Executive of Oranga Tamariki, Ministry for Children The current youth justice system in New Zealand is a mature restorative justice system that has proved effective since the introduction of Youth Justice Family Group Conferencing and Police Youth...
  • March 24, 2019
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Mrs Stella Martin1 1Senior Practitioner, Speech and Language Pathologist, Department Of Child Safety Youth And Women, QLD Research has identified the prevalence of language disorders amongst young people admitted to youth offender institutions is over 60%, with only 5% of...
  • March 20, 2019
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Dr Emma Colvin1, Associate Professor Alison Gerard1, Associate Professor Kath McFarlane1, Dr Andrew McGrath1 1Charles Sturt University, , Australia This paper presents some of the findings from a Criminology Research Council funded project into the criminalisation of children with care...
  • March 18, 2019
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Ms Loretta Allen-weinstein1, Mr Tom Dorman2, Mrs Summer Chan2 1Juvenile Justice Nsw, Sydney, Australia, 2Victims Services, , Australia Childhood trauma is one of the nation’s most important public health concerns, with adverse childhood experiences being one of the strongest predictors...
  • March 18, 2019
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Dr Rebecca Goodbourn1, Dr Heather Nancarrow2, Mr Andrew Taukolo3, Dr Karen Struthers4, Ms Elena Campbell5 1Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety, Sydney, Australia, 2Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety, Sydney, Australia, 3YFS Ltd, Logan, Australia, 4Griffith University, Brisbane,...
  • March 18, 2019
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Ms Roxanne Moore1, Mr Scott Avery2, Ms Tammy Solonec3 1Change The Record Coalition, Adelaide, Australia, 2FPDN, 3Amnesty International The mass incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people is soaring as Australian governments continue to push “tough on crime”...
  • March 18, 2019
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A/Prof. Garner Clancey1 1University of Sydney, , Australia This presentation will consider potential applications of data science in understanding and predicting security risk of juvenile detainees. By using state of the art machine learning algorithms and statistical learning, the proposed...
  • March 18, 2019
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Ms Lauren Cusick1, Mr Conrad Connolly1 1Jesuit Social Services, SUNSHINE, Australia Jesuit Social Services is a social change organisation with more than 40 years’ experience working with young people and adults involved in the justice system. We have developed a...
  • March 18, 2019
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