Juvenile justice and youth welfare: a scoping study

Juvenile justice and youth welfare: a scoping study

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Provides information on key elements of juvenile justice and relevant aspects of welfare programs in Australia. The report identifies issues in the relationship between juvenile justice and youth welfare and summarises the services provided in this area by government agencies. It also describes the main juvenile justice data collections. The report will be particularly useful to juvenile justice policy makers, service providers, planners and research workers in this field.

Authored by AIHW.

Published 18 December 1998; ISBN-13 978 0 642 24787 2; AIHW cat. no. CWS 6; 86pp.; OUT OF PRINT

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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