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Why is the age of criminal responsibility in the UK the lowest in the European Union?
Implementing the Don Dale royal commission’s recommendations will test the capacity to redress the ‘systemic and shocking failures’ it identified.
The Don Dale royal commission’s capacity to make lasting change lies with the government implementing its recommendations.
Children as young as ten have been targeted for intensive policing under the NSW Police’s secretive Suspect Targeting Management Plan.
Architecture can affect behaviour and the choices we make. The brief is out for a centre to replace the Don Dale facility, but word is, it’s ‘a disgrace’. We can do much better.
A judge has ruled that placing a 16-year-old in solitary confinement breached his human rights.
Research is revealing that both families who have experienced adolescent family violence and those working with them feel the criminal justice system is not an appropriate way to respond to it.
Knowing why people with troubled childhoods may be more likely to engage in criminal activity is necessary to inform the development of effective prevention and early intervention initiatives.
The NT youth justice royal commission’s interim report did not deliver any findings or make any recommendations. Nor did it reflect young people’s personal stories.
Australian jurisdictions should enact permanent solutions to juvenile justice crises that replace large and ineffective youth prisons with a safer, more decent alternative.
Two teenagers have been sentenced to life for a double murder. But their crime is extremely rare.
MPs have proposed that restorative justice should eventually become a right in the UK.
What the Northern Territory’s experience with state interventions reveals is that rather than protecting young people, it has placed them at greater risk of mistreatment and trauma.
Important questions are being asked about why children were abused in juvenile detention in the Northern Territory. But we also need to ask why children are being detained at all.
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Edge Hill University
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Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Criminology, Loughborough University
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Professor (Practice), Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Law, UNSW
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Professor of Criminology, University of Technology Sydney
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Co-Director, Columbia University Justice Lab, Senior Research Scientist, Columbia School of Social Work, Columbia University
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Professor, Centre for Women's Studies & Gender Research, Sociology, Monash University
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Professor in Justice and Legal Studies, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer, Youth Work & Youth Studies, Social Equity Research Centre, RMIT University
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Researcher, University of Technology Sydney
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Emeritus Professor of Criminology, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, De Montfort University
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Health and Social Care, Edge Hill University