When children are denied bail, they’re often taken to police watch houses. But these don’t have the staff or facilities to keep children safe and well.
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State governments across the country have brought in harsher laws to deal with youth crime in recent years. But do the stats justify the punitive measures?
New research shows increased mental health support would help break the cycle of incarceration - and drive down recidivism.
In the early 2000s, we tested a new curriculum on more than 200 students. Here’s what we found when we met the students again, two decades later.
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) affects children’s decision-making before committing a crime and their capacity to comprehend the consequences. Locking them up isn’t the answer.
The closure of youth detention centres is a positive development. However, without adequate investment in community organizations that serve youth, it is a move set up to fail.
In attempts to curb youth crime, the NT government wants to lower the age of criminal responsibility, while the Coalition in Queensland wants to try children as adults for some crimes.
Music can provide incarcerated youth with opportunities to build confidence, engage with learning, develop social skills, and and redefine themselves from young offenders to young artists.
Children as young as ten don’t have access to Medicare if detained. And they’re dying of largely preventable diseases.
Our research finds at-risk youth in north Queensland wanted to feel safe and included in the community, but often felt the opposite.
The federal government should create a federal child and youth advocate — a children’s commissioner — in order to help Canada’s crossover youth.
In one year, an average 566 children between 10 and 13 were in detention. Almost 70% were Indigenous children.
Australia should look to the New Zealand model, which has a strong focus on community, and recognises that the majority of young people grow-out of participating in crime.
Children are still being held in police cells and juvenile detention for low-range offences, under alarming conditions. Here’s how their mental health and future prospects suffer.
One year after the Royal Commission into Northern Territory child detention recommended big changes, little of substance has been done to tackle the problem by the NT Labor government.
Psychotropic medication is ‘pharmaceutical violence’ against migrant children and other incarcerated youth throughout the United States. Drug addiction is one consequence.
Simply based on how they are housed, forcibly separating immigrant kids from their families is bound to make a bad situation worse.
Research reveals that the factors that put youth at risk of sexual assault while in custody are significantly different from those that put adults at risk in prison.
Implementing the Don Dale royal commission’s recommendations will test the capacity to redress the ‘systemic and shocking failures’ it identified.
New research assessing young people in WA detention found 89% were severely impaired in at least one area of brain function. One in three had fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD).
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Professor of Criminology, University of Technology Sydney
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