(2004). Youth justice conferencing and police referrals: The gate-keeping role of police in Queensland, Australia. Journal of Criminal Justice , 32 , 345–357.Stewart A and Smith F (2004) Youth justice conferencing and police referrals: The gatekeeping role of police in Queensland, Australia. ...
CRIMINAL LAW – PLANNING ACT OFFENCES – APPEAL FROM MAGISTRATES COURT – Interpreters not sworn – inadmissible evidence tendered – whether miscarriage of justice Justices Act 1886 Qld; Local Government Act 2009 Qld; Oaths Act 1967 Qld; Planning Act 2016 Qld;...
on the Labor side and Gordon Chalk and Tim Nicholls on the conservative side. The Government is now paying the consequences for its lack of fiscal discipline, as it needs to fund a sharply rising public debt interest bill while managing multiple crises in health, housing, and youth crime. ...
The Government is now paying the consequences for its lack of fiscal discipline, as it needs to fund a sharply rising public debt interest bill while managing multiple crises in health, housing, and youth crime. Please feel free to comment below. Alternatively, you can email comments, ...
(Queensland GovernmentCitation2022b). While this initiative is an incredibly positive step forward, like most policies, it needs to be localised, customised, and consistent, with clearly articulated, non-onerous conditions. For, short-term remedies can, at times, be at odds with long-term ...
The slowness of policy responses to housing and homelessness by all levels of government have been a major theme of experiences of participants from mining communities in this study. Critical social policy and social justice theoretical approaches provide an opportunity to contribute to a robust and ...
The article analyses the law in other Australian States and Territories and the recommendations from the Review of the Mental Health Act 2000 (Qld) in search of a better approach.Suzanne O'TooleJodie O'LearyBruce Watt
National Party government instigated amendments to the Youth Justice Act 1992 (Qld). Boot camps replaced court ordered youth justice conferencing. In 2014 there were more drastic changes, including opening the Children 's Court proceedings to the public, permitting publication of identifying information...
Early in 2014, Queensland significantly transformed its Youth Justice Act 1992 (Qld). The amendments included removing the principle that detention should be a last resort, providing for the automatic transfer of 17-year-olds in detention to adult correctional facilities and a mandatory boot camp ...
We interviewed 46 youth justice practitioners in Queensland, Australia, to gather their perspectives on the use of problem-solving approaches in children's criminal courts. Somewhat surprisingly, most participants did not consider problem-solving courts to be appropriate for children...