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Age
Matters? A report on age discrimination 
Issues covered in the report include age discrimination against
older people at work, young people at work, Commonwealth programs
and discrimination in accommodation and a range of goods and services
Aggression
and the development of delinquent behaviour in children
This essay, based on a large longitudinal study of Queensland children,
reports that the best predictor of aggression at age 14 is aggression
at age five. It suggests that effective early intervention programs
can be among the most productive crime prevention strategies
Alcohol
and Illicit Drugs
The aim of this section of the Australian Institute of Criminology's
website is to disseminate quality information on alcohol and illicit
drug use and related behaviours in Australia
Australian
Domestic & Family Violence Clearinghouse
The Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse, established
in October 1999, is a national resource on issues of domestic and
family violence
Australian
Federal Police Youth Site
Information and programmes concerning youths from the AFP
Australian
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission – Information
for Students
This site is designed for students and will answer some common questions
about human rights; look at the United Nations; and shine some light
on important children’s issues
Australian
Law Graduates’ Career Destinations
Study of the destinations of law graduates
Australian
Social Policy
Australian Social Policy is a biannual journal that publishes fully
refereed articles relating to social policy
Australia's
reports under Article 44 of the Convention on the Rights of the
Child (Attorney-General's Department)
Australia's first report, under the Convention on the Rights of
the Child, lodged with the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child |
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Bullying
Bullying in schools continues to be an area of considerable
community concern, as it impacts on students' physical and psychological
health, educational attainment and social development. Bullying
behaviour can also indicate subsequent anti-social and criminal
behaviour. The National Crime Prevention Branch is funding research
and development into the most effective ways to prevent and stop
bullying in pre-school and in the early primary years. Once the
most effective anti-bullying strategies are identified, the project
will develop information resources to help teachers, parents and
carers prevent and address bullying in schools |
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Cannabis
Diversion Intervention Program for young offenders - NSW Capacity
building project
This project has been funded under the capacity building stream
of the National Crime Prevention Programme. Capacity building involves
the short-term (ie non recurrent) resourcing by the Federal Government
of agencies, sectors, and jurisdictions in order to enhance their
long-term ability to achieve crime and violence prevention goals
Changing
social and legal frameworks for young Australians
Changing social and legal frameworks for young Australians: A report
to the National Youth Affairs Research Scheme, by Ed Carson, Paul
Fitzgerald and Suzanne Roche
Child
Inclusive Practice in Family and Child Counselling and Family and
Child Mediation
This research report was first conceived in the broader context
of the June 1996 changes to the Family Law Act 1975 which placed
increased emphasis on parental responsibility, and encouraged parents
to actively consider the best interests of their children and to
use non-judicial processes to resolve issues of family conflict
and transition
Child
Protection Australia 2000 – 2001
Child Protection Australia 2000-01 provides comprehensive information
on children who come into contact with State and Territory community
service departments for protective reasons
Children,
Young People and Communities - The Future is in our Hands
Conference papers from the 2001 conference
Convention
on the Rights of the Child
The United Nations has sought to articulate the rights of children
in its human rights documents
Crime
Prevention Through Sport and Physical Activity
Crime prevention is not the primary objective of sport and physical
activity, but it might be an extremely positive by product
Child
Support Scheme (Attorney-General's Department)
Lists contact details for state and territory child support
services
Crime
Prevention Competency Standards
The development of national competency training standards and training
resource materials for crime prevention practitioners is an important
step in achieving a sustainable reduction in crime in our community
Communities
Working in partnership with local communities is essential.
It recognises that local crime problems need local solutions and
that the community's input is essential to finding these solutions
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Current
Perspectives on Domestic Violence – a Review of National &
International Literature 
The literature review was prepared as a framework for identifying
benchmarks for the diverse projects being undertaken under the Partnerships
Against Domestic Violence initiative |
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Detention
- 'Statistics on juvenile detention in Australia: 1981-2001
These statistics are derived from quarterly reports on juvenile
detention submitted by the relevant juvenile justice authorities
in each Australian jurisdiction to the Australian Institute of Criminology
Domestic
Violence in Regional Australia – A literature review
This report is the result of an extensive literature review of research
conducted on domestic violence in regional Australia |
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Early
Intervention, Youth Crime & Families Strategy
The Australian Government recognises the importance of adopting
an 'early intervention' approach to crime prevention. Research shows
that focusing on prevention and early intervention is more effective
in the long-term than responses that may resolve only immediate
crises. Early intervention involves intervening at critical points
in a young person's development and attempting to ensure that they
are given the maximum opportunity to lead productive and law abiding
lives. The Commonwealth Government sees young people as the future
of Australia and is demonstrating its commitment to early intervention
by supporting a large number of early intervention initiatives.
Equal
Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency - Student Resource
Centre
Student resources concerning women in the workplace
Equity
the law and young people
A 2001 National Youth Roundtable member report
Evaluation
report of the Young Offenders' Pilot Program
Young offenders represent one of the most disadvantaged groups of
young people in our community, with many experiencing multiple disadvantage
through limited schooling, low literacy, substance abuse problems,
low self esteem, homelessness, family breakdown, unemployment and
poverty. The purpose of the program was to trial and evaluate a
model of coordinated intensive support for young offenders and to
contribute to policy. Seven pilot projects began in 1999, in conjunction
with governments in Victoria and Queensland. The pilot was extended
to Western Australia and the Northern Territory in 2000 with a further
four pilot projects |
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Family
Court of Australia Student Resource Material
This material has been prepared for senior secondary school
and early tertiary students. It provides a general introduction
to family law and the Family Court of Australia with references
to some case law
Family
Law Branch (Attorney-General's Department)
Links to some contact details and brief descriptions of
the responsibilities of the Family Law Unit, International Family
Law Unit, Family Law Council Secretariat and Marriage Celebrants
Unit
Family Law Online
This site is provided by the Commonwealth Attorney General's Department
and is designed to give you quick and easy access to Australian
family law system and referral information. Search using keywords
or browse by clicking on an appropriate topic heading
Fear
of Crime
People's fear of crime varies depending on their personal experience,
where they are, the time of day or night and who else is around.
Young people are actually more fearful of crime than has been recognised
in the past |
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Hanging
Out - Negotiating Young People's Use of Public Space – Summary
All Australians have the right to enjoy our public spaces. However,
young people often find themselves in conflict with others when
they frequent shopping malls, civic areas and public transport
Home
Safe Home: The link between domestic and family violence and women’s
homelessness
This report considers the relationship between homelessness and
women experiencing domestic and family violence. It makes recommendations
on strategies required to better meet the needs of women and children
Human
Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Legal Information
The Legal Information section contains a range of legal resources
and links relevant to the work of the Australian Human Rights and
Equal Opportunity Commission
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Human
Rights and Indigenous Issues Newsletter
Newsletter on human rights and Indigenous issues produced by the
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade every 6 months |
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Human Rights Brief 1 – The Rights of the Child
Human Rights Briefs provide legal practitioners, community
advocates and others with guidance on the content and scope of human
rights and fundamental freedoms in Australia and their use in Australian
law
Human
Rights Brief 2 – Sentencing Juvenile Offenders
Human Rights Briefs provide legal practitioners, community
advocates and others with guidance on the content and scope of human
rights and fundamental freedoms in Australia and their use in Australian
law |
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Indigenous
The Commonwealth Government is dedicated to working with grass roots
Indigenous organisations to achieve innovative solutions and promote
effective communication among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
communities |
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Juvenile
justice services and transition arrangements
Juvenile justice services and transition arrangements: A report
to the National Youth Affairs Research Scheme prepared by Keys Young
Pty Ltd |
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Key
facts for new drivers
If you want to become good at something you need to get plenty of
practice - and in different conditions and times
Living
Rough: preventing crime and victimisation of young homeless people
This project was designed to identify strategies that reduce violence
and crime among disadvantaged and homeless young people, both as
perpetrators and as victims |
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Mentoring
The Commonwealth Government, through the National Crime Prevention
Programme, is commissioning a national profile and a literature
review on mentoring programmes for young offenders. The profiling
will include an analysis of the factors that contribute to the successful
operation of mentoring programmes and it is expected that the literature
review will detail evaluations of established programmes both nationally
and internationally
Model
Domestic Violence Laws
Domestic violence is an issue which has occupied legislators on
numerous occasions around Australia and overseas over the past 20
years. The aim of this report is to create model legislation based
on best practice |
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National
Children’s and Youth Law Centre
Australia's only national community legal centre dedicated to
addressing human right issues for children and young people through
legal change
National
Council for the Prevention of Child Abuse
The NCPCA advises the Commonwealth Minister for Family and Community
Services on national issues to support and protect all Australian
children and families
National
Review of Juvenile Diversion
Many jurisdictions across Australia have been exploring options
for juvenile diversion. The term diversion refers to the practice
of dealing with offenders through means other than through the formal
criminal justice process. The Commonwealth, through the National
Crime Prevention Programme, has commissioned research to describe
and assess current juvenile diversion programmes |
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Partnerships
Against Domestic Violence
On this site you will find information about the Partnerships Against
Domestic Violence initiative, including its priority themes
Partnerships
Against Domestic Violence – Children and Young People
Information on projects helping children and young people who may
have experienced or witnessed domestic violence to break the cycle
of violence and develop healthy relationships
Partnerships
Against Domestic Violence – Good Practice
Information on good practice including researching areas where new
information is needed to support violence prevention
Partnerships
Against Domestic Violence – Regional projects
Information on projects and assistance in regional Australia
Partnerships
Against Domestic Violence – Rural Domestic Violence Program
In regional, rural and remote areas of Australia, isolation and
difficulty accessing services magnify the challenges faced by victims
of domestic violence
Partnerships
Against Domestic Violence – Second Taskforce Report
Second report of the national Partnerships Against Domestic Violence
taskforce
Partnerships
Against Domestic Violence – Taskforce Report
First Report from the National Partnerships Against Domestic Violence
Taskforce
Partnerships
Against Domestic Violence: Case Study 1 – Working with children
and young people
Focuses on some of the innovative work undertaken with children
and young people through Partnerships Against Domestic Violence
funds
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Partnerships
Against Domestic Violence: Case Study 2 – Prevention and Perpetrator
Programmes
Case study of programmes focussing on prevention and perpetrators
funded through the Partnerships Against Domestic Violence initiative |
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Partnerships Against Domestic Violence: Case Study 3 – Peer
education programmes
Focuses on peer education programmes funded through the Partnerships
Against Domestic Violence initiative as an effective form of violence
education and intervention for young people
Partnerships Against Domestic Violence: Key Findings – working
with children and young people
This information sheet provides key findings from the national evaluation
of the Partnerships Against Domestic Violence projects which were
working with children and young people
Partnerships
Against Domestic Violence: Key Findings – working with men
This information sheet provides key findings from the national evaluation
of the Partnerships Against Domestic Violence projects which worked
with men, including preventative work with young men
Partnerships
Against Domestic Violence: Metadata Bulletin 2 – Working with
children and young people
This bulletin provides information on domestic violence projects
which are working with children and young people
Partnerships
Against Domestic Violence: Metadata Bulletin 3 – working with
men
This bulletin focuses on work being done in the area of male perpetrators,
male violence and men’s relationships
Pathways
to prevention: developmental and early intervention approaches to
crime in Australia
Much scientifically persuasive international evidence has emerged
over recent years that interventions early in life can have long
term impacts on crime and other social problems
Perceptions
of the treatment of juveniles in the legal system
A report to the National Youth Affairs Research Scheme, by Christine
Alder, Ian O'Connor, Kate Warner and Rob White
Persons
in Juvenile Corrective Institutions 1981-2000
The data on which this report is based consist of the census muster
taken by the relevant juvenile justice authorities in each State
and Territory during the night of the last day of each quarter
Penalties
for Breaking Parenting Orders (Family Court of Australia)
Information about new laws intended to ensure that court
orders and registered agreements about children, such as parenting
orders, are not being broken
Prisoners
and their Familes
Children of prisoners across Australia now have the opportunity
to develop a more meaningful relationship with their imprisoned
parent as a result of a parenting programme funded under the Commonwealth
Government's National Crime Prevention Programme
Public
Spaces for Young People - A Guide to Creative Projects and Positive
Strategies
This Guide stems from work carried out for the National Campaign
Against Violence and Crime/National Anti-Crime Strategy as part
of their crime prevention research activity. The NCAVAC/NACS project
was titled Negotiating Young People?s Use of Public Space and involved
an extensive review of literature and documents, as well as interviews
with a wide range of public space users |
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Rate
of incarceration among Indigenous juvenile offenders falling
The first release in the Australian Institute of Criminology’s
Technical and Background Paper series reports on the rates of detention
of juveniles in Australia
Restorative
Justice Programs in Australia
Restorative justice is a term which has recently emerged to refer
to a range of informal justice practices designed to require offenders
to take responsibility for their wrongdoing and to meet the needs
of affected victims and communities
Report on the Development of a Juvenile Justice National
Minimum Data Set
This report develops a National Minimum Data Set for juvenile justice.
This report and the data dictionary contained within the report
are an initial stage in the process of moving toward a national
data collection on juvenile justice |
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School
strategies to deal with gangs
Analysis of the reasons why young people join or form criminal gangs
indicates that gang membership is intimately related to peer interaction
Sharing
the care of children post-separation: conference paper
The aim of the paper is to explore the different patterns of shared
care arrangements, the extent of flexibility in the arrangements,
and factors that impact on the arrangements in the context of the
labour force capacity of the parents
Statistics
on Drug Use in Australia 1998
A comprehensive overview of Australia’s drug issues including
information on the National Drug Strategy, Tobacco and Illicit Drug
use, morbidity and mortality, treatment and law enforcement
Statistics
on juvenile detention in Australia: 1981-2001
The statistics in this report are derived from quarterly reports
on juvenile detention from juvenile justice authorities in each
Australian jurisdiction. The report shows that both the number of
Indigenous juveniles in custody and the rate of incarceration of
Indigenous young people are considerably higher than the number
and rate for non-Indigenous people. Although the number of Indigenous
juveniles in detention has declined from an average of 506 in 1995
to 343 in 2001, Indigenous juveniles are still 17 times more likely
to be in Australian detention facilities than are non-Indigenous
young people
Submission
to the Senate Inquiry into Human Rights (Mandatory Sentencing of
Juvenile Offenders) Bill 1999 from ATSIC
Follow the links from the home page to online publications and find
the ATSIC submission to the Senate inquiry into human rights (Mandatory
Sentencing of Juvenile Offenders) |
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The Experiences of Child
Complainants of Sexual Abuse in the Criminal Justice System
This study focusses on the experiences of child complainants
of sexual abuse across three jurisdictions – Queensland, New South
Wales and Western Australia
The
Way Forward – children, young people and domestic violence
Proceedings from the national forum on children, young people and
domestic violence
Tomorrow’s
Children. Australia’s National Plan of Action Against the Commercial
Sexual Exploitation of Children
A plan of action collaboratively developed which sets out what activity
Australia has undertaken to combat the commercial sexual exploitation
of children in the areas of prostitution or sex for favours, pornography,
trafficking and sex tourism
Truancy
There is an established relationship between juvenile crime and
non-attendance at school. International experience shows that juvenile
crime is often preceded by a pattern of less serious incidents such
as truancy and that a high proportion of juvenile crime is committed
during school hours |
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Understanding
youth gangs
This introductory paper sets the scene for understanding the complexity
of gangs in Australia. It provides us with a framework of what gangs
are, what sorts of behaviour they engage in, how they are structured,
how they change over time, and how they form and disappear |
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Where
are we going: comprehensive economic, environmental, social and
cultural reporting
This document reviews the development of reporting regimes in
Australia and elsewhere in the world
Women
in Corrections – Conference Papers
The conference discussed, examined and compared the roles and needs
of women in the corrections environment and focussed on two specific
groups: Women as staff and Women as clients
Working
to Assist People Experiencing Violence
Centrelink has prepared this publication for distribution to community
organisations who work in the field of domestic and family violence
Working
with Adolescents to Prevent Domestic Violence – Indigenous
Rural Model
Building on previous work with adolescents to prevent domestic
violence in a rural town model, this report focuses on working with
Indigenous adolescents to prevent family violence
Working
with Adolescents to Prevent Domestic Violence – Rural Town
Model
Previous research has found that working with adolescents can be
important in the primary prevention of domestic violence |
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Young
people and domestic violence – fact sheet
The main findings relate to young people’s understanding of and
attitudes to domestic violence, their experiences of violence and
how they deal with these experiences |
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Young
people as victims of violence: A discussion paper
A discussion paper providing an overview of violence, this report
reviews the range of factors which predispose particular groups
of young people to violent victimisation, and addresses the extent
to which young people are victims
Young
People Leaving Care & Protection
Executive summary of a report which researched the experiences of
young people leaving care and to identify factors which impeded
and assisted them in their transition to independent living
Young
People Say “DV” No Way
A report on a series of projects aimed to increase participants’
awareness about violence in the home and to facilitate positive
changes in behaviour for young people who use violence in relationships
Your
Rights Series Fact Sheets
This new series of fact sheets has been developed to inform consumers
of their basic rights and responsibilities under the Trade Practices
Act and the Privacy Act |
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Zero
Tolerance Policing: Implications for Indigenous People
Follow the links from the home page to online publications and find
the report on zero tolerance policing and its impact on indigenous
people, including young people |
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