Juvenile justice and youth welfare: a scoping study

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Publication table of contents

• Preliminary material
  • Title and verso pages
  • Contents
  • List of tables
  • Acknowledgments
• Body section
  1. Introduction
     • 1.1 Methodology
     • 1.2 Scope of the paper
     • 1.3 Organisation of the paper
  2. Trends in juvenile justice
     • 2.1 Introduction
     • 2.2 Models of juvenile justice
  3. Juvenile justice systems
     • 3.1 Key elements
     • 3.2 Administrative location of juvenile justice systems
     • 3.3 Population and size
     • 3.4 Sex
     • 3.5 Age scope
     • 3.6 Juvenile justice data collections
  4. Youth welfare
     • 4.1 Scope of youth welfare
     • 4.2 Young people and child protection systems
  5. Issues in the relationship between the juvenile justice and youth welfare systems
     • 5.1 Introduction
     • 5.2 Commonwealth and State responsibilities
     • 5.3 Links between the justice and welfare systems
     • 5.4 Effectiveness of links between systems
     • 5.5 'Drift' to juvenile justice systems
     • 5.6 Service overlap
     • 5.7 Welfare, justice and young women
     • 5.8 Cultural background and ethnicity
       • Indigenous young people
       • Young people of South East Asian origin
     • 5.9 Young people on care and protection orders and justice orders
     • 5.10 Data on young people on protective and justice orders
  6. Programs and services
     • 6.1 Young people in detention
     • 6.2 Young people on orders in the community
  7. State and Territory summaries
     • 7.1 New South Wales
       • Administrative location of juvenile justice
       • Current legislation and key features of the system
       • Age scope of the juvenile justice system
       • Core functions of the juvenile justice system
       • Linkages between juvenile justice and youth welfare
       • Responsibility for young people on care and protection and justice orders
       • Programs for young people on justice orders
       • Data collection
     • 7.2 Victoria
       • Administrative location of juvenile justice
       • Current legislation and key features of the system
       • Age scope of the juvenile justice system
       • Core functions of the juvenile justice system
       • Linkages between juvenile justice and youth welfare
       • Responsibility for young people on care and protection and justice orders
       • Programs for young people on justice orders
       • Data collection
     • 7.3 Queensland
       • Administrative location of juvenile justice
       • Current legislation and key features of the system
       • Age scope of the juvenile justice system
       • Core functions of the juvenile justice system
       • Linkages between juvenile justice and youth welfare
       • Responsibility for young people on care and protection and justice orders
       • Programs for young people on justice orders
       • Data collection
     • 7.4 Western Australia
       • Administrative location of juvenile justice
       • Current legislation and key features of the system
       • Age scope of the juvenile justice system
       • Core functions of the juvenile justice system
       • Linkages between juvenile justice and youth welfare
       • Responsibility for young people on care and protection and justice orders
       • Programs for young people on justice orders
       • Data collection
     • 7.5 South Australia
       • Administrative location of juvenile justice
       • Current legislation and key features of the system
       • Age scope of the juvenile justice system
       • Core functions of the Department of Human Services in relation to young offenders
       • Linkages between juvenile justice and youth welfare
       • Responsibility for young people under care and protection and justice orders
       • Programs for young people on justice orders
       • Data collection
     • 7.6 Tasmania
       • Administrative location of juvenile justice
       • Current legislation and key features of the system
       • Age scope of the juvenile justice system
       • Core functions of the juvenile justice system
       • Linkages between juvenile justice and youth welfare
       • Responsibility for young people on care and protection and justice orders
       • Programs for young people on justice orders
       • Data collection
     • 7.7 Australian Capital Territory
       • Administrative location of juvenile justice
       • Current legislation and key features of the system
       • Age scope of the juvenile justice system
       • Core functions of the juvenile justice system
       • Linkages between juvenile justice and youth welfare
       • Responsibility for young people on care and protection and justice orders
       • Programs for young people on justice orders
       • Data collection
     • 7.8 Northern Territory
       • Administrative location of juvenile justice
       • Current legislation and key features of the system
       • Age scope of the juvenile justice system
       • Core functions of the juvenile justice system
       • Linkages between juvenile justice and youth welfare
       • Responsibility for young people on care and protection and justice orders
       • Programs for young people on justice orders
• End matter
  • Abbreviations
  • References