Australia's response to sexualised or sexually abusive behaviours in children and young people.

Responding to children and young people with sexualised or sexual offending behaviours presents significant challenges across the allied health, child protection, education and juvenile justice sectors. This report maps the specialised therapeutic services designed to effect positive behavioural change and thus divert young people with sexualised behaviours from the juvenile justice system. Accurate numbers on children with sexualised or sexual offending behaviours are difficult to determine. There are several factors contributing to this gap in understanding. These include entrenched ideals about children as inherently innocent, widespread ignorance about developmental sexuality, and the tendency of both young people and parents to deny or minimise incidents when they do occur.

In Australia, data on children with sexualised behaviours are not collected uniformly and nondisclosure contributes to what might be large numbers of offences going undetected. Mandatory reporting requirements apply where children display sexualised behaviours and are thought to be at risk of harm. Yet a general lack of knowledge as to what constitutes appropriate behaviour means that many may respond inappropriately to incidents of sexualised behaviours. This context of confusion, denial and non-disclosure creates a hidden population of children that continues to be at risk. Attention to redressing the contexts for non-disclosure is urgently required to ensure that children in need are provided with specialised therapeutic care.

This report presents qualitative data from interviews with specialised clinicians as well as submissions from service providers in both community and youth justice settings. In mapping the availability of therapeutic services, this report highlights a number of geographic and demographic gaps in service provision, including difficulties with eligibility criteria, referral pathways, funding arrangements and specialised workforce development. There are multiple challenges facing the tertiary services sector, yet the comprehensive provision of specialised services is just one part of the response required. This study emphasises the need for effective primary and secondary prevention to effect a reduction in the numbers of young people requiring counselling in the future. Consistent with the public health model, this report prioritises professional and community education strategies that would ultimately necessitate fewer tertiary services for young people and fewer places in juvenile detention centres.

A representação social do adolescente egresso do regime de internação na Febem sobre o processo de (re)socialização

Pós-graduação em Educação Escolar - FCLAR

Linguagem e identidade: a construção discursiva das identidades sociais em interações com menores infratores

Este trabalho analisa a construção discursiva das identidades sociais em três interações com menores infratores sob o regime semiliberdade. O objetivo desta investigação é correlacionar língua e identidades. Para isto, o estudo começa por problematizar as idéias sobre o sujeito e sua identificação com diferentes centros sociais numa sociedade moderna e plural. Destaca, também, a influência das instituições na formação identitária do indivíduo, especialmente das instituições reguladoras para menores infratores e do Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente (ECA). Assim, relaciona o estigma, socialmente construído, às contingências identitárias com os quais os menores se deparam nas interações verbais. Deste modo, recorre a abordagens teóricas que consideram a língua em seu contexto social, como a Sociolingüística Interacional e as teorias da Enunciação, como também a outras áreas do conhecimento, como os Estudos Culturais e a Psicologia Social. É uma investigação de cunho interpretativista e etnográfico que analisa a construção das identidades sociais por meio de diferentes alinhamentos e enquadres no discurso, e estuda a relação do discurso dos adolescentes com os discursos que circulam na unidade onde estão e na sociedade. Para tanto, entrevistas com funcionários e pessoas que visitam o referido local foram realizadas, assim como notas de campo sobre a situação social dos participantes foram tomadas. O trabalho observa as identidades emergentes mais relevantes no discurso dos menores, tais como a identidade estigmatizada, a identidade religiosa, as familiares e a identidade da transformação, sempre formadas na sua necessária relação com o outro. A análise revela o conflito entre a identidade do infrator e as identidades, consideradas socialmente como normais, o que demonstra a complexidade das identidades sociais e suscita novas problematizações a serem consideradas em pesquisas futuras.

Biennial report of the Superintendent of the Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial School to the Governor and the Board of Trustees [serial] : for the biennium ending ...

Report year ends in Nov. (1st and 5th report), Dec. (6th report), and June (7th-11th reports).

Annual report on Title I Public Law 89-750 : neglected/delinquent projects.

Compiled 1973/74- by the section's Program Review and Documentation Unit.

An address delivered before the citizens of Philadelphia at the House of Refuge on Saturday, the twenty-ninth of November, 1828 /

The House of Refuge was incorporated in 1826 for the reformation of juvenile delinquents in Philadelphia.

Promising interventions for reducing Indigenous juvenile offending

Indigenous juveniles (those aged 10 to 16 years in Queensland and 10 to 17 years in all other jurisdictions) are over-represented at all stages of the criminal justice system, and their over-representation becomes more pronounced at the most severe end of the system (ie in detention). Recent figures show that Indigenous juveniles are 24 times as likely to be detained in a juvenile correctional facility as non-Indigenous juveniles (Richards & Lyneham 2010). A variety of explanations for this over-representation have been proposed, including: • lack of access or disparate access to diversionary programs (Allard et al. 2010; Cunneen 2008; Snowball 2008); • systemic discrimination against Indigenous juveniles (eg police bias against Indigenous juveniles) (Cunneen 2008; Kenny & Lennings 2007); • inadequate resourcing of Aboriginal legal services (Cunneen & Schwartz 2008); and • genuinely higher levels of offending by Indigenous juveniles (Kenny & Lennings 2007; Weatherburn et al. 2003). A range of measures (including diversion and juvenile conferencing programs) has recently been implemented to reduce the over-representation of Indigenous juveniles in detention, and minimise the contact of juveniles with the formal criminal justice system. Diversionary measures can only have a limited impact, however, and reducing offending and reoffending have been identified as critical factors to address if the over-representation of Indigenous juveniles is to be reduced (Allard et al. 2010; Weatherburn et al. 2003). While acknowledging that other measures designed to reduce the over-representation of Indigenous juveniles are important, this paper reviews the evidence on policies and programs that reduce offending by Indigenous juveniles in Australia. Where relevant, research from comparable jurisdictions, such as New Zealand and Canada, is also discussed.

County jail and detention facility report.

Title from cover.

Detention Home Teens as Tutors: A Cooperative Cross-Age Tutoring Pilot Project

Concerned professionals in the juvenile justice field frequently express concern for effective programs that help youth offenders successfully rejoin society. This mixed-method pilot study, involved detention home teens functioning as tutors for special education students in a public school. Tutors experienced gains in self-esteem and overall school/social attitude.

Safeguarding rural Australia : addressing masculinity and violence in rural settings. Data report no. 5. Consequences of violence - juvenile offenders, long-term health consequences, anxiety and repression, other chronic disabilities

This report considers extant data which have been sourced with respect to some of the consequences of violent acts and incidents and risky behaviour for males living in regional and remote Australia . This has been collated and presented under the headings: juvenile offenders; long-term health consequences; anxiety and repression; and other chronic disabilities. Additional commentary resulting from exploration, examination and analyses of secondary data is published online in complementary reports in this series.

Juvenile justice in Queensland and Canada : new legislation reflecting new directions

Due to their similar colonial histories and common law heritage, Australia and Canada provide an ideal comparative context for examining legislation reflecting new directions in the field of juvenile justice. Toward this end, this article compares the revised juvenile justice legislation which came into force in Queensland and Canada in 2003 (Canada, Youth Criminal Justice Act, enacted on 19 February 2002 and proclaimed in force 1 April 2003; Queensland, Juvenile Justice Act, amended 2003). There are a series of questions that could be addressed including: How similar and how sweeping have been the legislative changes introduced in each jurisdiction?; What are likely to be some of the effects of the implementation of these new legislative regimes?; and, how well does the legislation enacted in either jurisdiction address the fundamental difficulties experienced by children who have been caught up in juvenile justice systems? This article addresses mainly the first of these questions, offering a systematic comparison of recent Queensland and Canadian legislative changes. Although, due to the recentness of these changes, there is no data available to assess long-term effects, anecdotal evidence and preliminary research findings from our comparative study are offered to provide a start at answering the second question. We also offer critical yet sympathetic comments on the ability of legislation to address the fundamental difficulties experienced by children caught up in juvenile justice systems. Specifically, we conclude that while more than simple legislative responses are required to address the difficulties faced by youth offenders, and especially overrepresented Indigenous young offenders, the amended Queensland and new Canadian legislation appear to provide some needed reforms that can be used to help address some of these fundamental difficulties.