Dr Russell Reid1 1The Australian Institute Of Health And Welfare, , Australia In 2016-17 Indigenous Australians aged 10-17 made up 5% of the Australian population in this age group, yet they constituted 48% of community-based supervision orders and 58% of...

Miss Kuen Yee Grace Tan2, Dr Carmela Pestell1, Dr James Fitzpatrick1, Dr Martyn Symons3 1Patches Paediatrics, Nedlands, Australia, 2School of Psychological Science, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia, 3Telethon Kids Institute Background/Introduction: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is a condition...

Ms Kerrie Sellen1 1Restorative Journeys, Adelaide, Australia The radical changing world order has seen the emergence of violent extremism particularly with young people in Australia. Traditional law-enforcement strategies invariably fail because those most at risk of radicalisation aren’t generally known....

Mr Murray Robinson1 1Department Of Justice And Community Safety, Australia Evidence suggests that young people in detention have experienced traumatic events in their childhood. As a corollary, these young people develop maladaptive coping and self-protecting behaviours. It is these behaviours...

Mrs Madeleine Gardiner1, Patrick Ryan1, Adrian Bol2 1Ashley Youth Detention Centre, Children And Youth Services, Department Of Communities,, Deloraine , Australia, 2Tasmanian State-wide Safewards Coordinator This presentation will focus on the innovative application of a mental health nursing model to...

Ms Kate Tillack1,  1Create Foundation, Australia Young people with a care experience are over-represented in the youth justice system. To understand this over-representation and to develop policy and practice change to address this issue, CREATE facilitated structured interviews with 148...

Mrs Kelly Howard1, Dr Clare McCann1, Dr Margaret Dudley1 1The University Of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Communication assistance is a form of specialist support for witnesses and defendants in justice settings who have been identified as having communication difficulties.  This...

Mrs Kate Headley1, Ms Jane Davenport1, Ms Lana Draper1, Ms Megan Spencer1 1Links Trauma Healing Service, Family And Community Services Nsw, Charlestown, Australia The majority of youth involved with the juvenile justice system have experienced traumatic events, with approximately half...

Ms Mahi Weiss1, Mr  Andrew MacDonald1 1Department Of Justice, Perth, Australia In 2009/2010 2469 youth appeared before the Perth Children’s Court on criminal matters.  Based on national data, it was hypothesised that approximately 26% of these youth are likely to...

Ms Elena Campbell1 1Centre For Innovative Justice, Melbourne, Australia The community rightly calls for a strong justice response to all forms of family violence. Yet this response – originally designed to address adult intimate partner violence – can have disastrous...