Ms Roxanne Moore1, Mr Scott Avery2, Ms Tammy Solonec3 1Change The Record Coalition, Adelaide, Australia, 2FPDN, 3Amnesty International The mass incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people is soaring as Australian governments continue to push “tough on crime”...

A/Prof. Garner Clancey1 1University of Sydney, , Australia This presentation will consider potential applications of data science in understanding and predicting security risk of juvenile detainees. By using state of the art machine learning algorithms and statistical learning, the proposed...

Ms Lauren Cusick1, Mr Conrad Connolly1 1Jesuit Social Services, SUNSHINE, Australia Jesuit Social Services is a social change organisation with more than 40 years’ experience working with young people and adults involved in the justice system. We have developed a...

Mr Nicholas Dwyer1, Mrs Natasha Doherty2 1Department Child Safety, Youth And Women, Brisbane, Australia, 2Deloitte Access Economics Transition 2 Success (T2S) is a therapeutic and vocational service model delivered within the community to young people aged 15-17 who are involved, or...

Assistant Commissioner Joseph Cassar1, Mr Dominic Teakle2, Mr Alex Sakis3, Superintendent Mark Wall (chair)1 1NSW Police Force, Sydney, Australia, 2Police Citizens Youth Clubs (PCYC) NSW, Whalan, Australia, 3NSW Department of Education, Sydney, Australia This panel will look at opportunities where...

Mr David Law1, Mr Dylan Roberts1 1Legal Aid Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Recommendation 25.31 of the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory was that: All legal practitioners appearing in a youth court be accredited...

Mrs Sarah Andruchow1 1Juvenile Justice Nsw, , Australia Prevention is better than cure. This conventional saying surely rings true for terrorism. Although the traditional approach to crime has been to respond, the present expectation of governments is to prevent crime...

Assistant Commissioner Joseph Cassar1, Mr Dominic  Teakle2 1NSW Police Force, Sydney, Australia, 2Police Citizens Youth Clubs (PCYC) NSW, Whalan, Australia The NSW Police Force and PCYC NSW have partnered together to deliver a suite of early intervention programs for young...

Ms Stavroola Anderson1 1Australasian Corrections Education Association, Sydney, Australia In each of the 18 locations in Australia in which young people are detained on justice-related matters, operates a school or education centre. The educational staff who work in these locations...

Mr Greg Edwards1, Mr Kelvin  Cook1 1Juvenile Justice NSW, Dubbo, Australia In response to the high number of juveniles, predominantly aboriginal, detained on lengthy remand periods, the Western Region implemented a specialised team in 2012 to focus on reducing the...