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...

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...

Ms Phyllis Meier1, Mr Michael Williams2 1Oranga Tamariki, Wellington, New Zealand, 2Youth Horizons Trust| Kia Pūawai, Auckland, New Zealand Three government agencies, Oranga Tamariki, Corrections and Police have formed strategic partnerships with Youth Horizons and the Functional Family Therapy model...

Mr Allan Boreham1, Ms Liz  Marsden2 1Oranga Tamariki, Wellington, New Zealand, 2Ngapuhi Iwi Social Services, Te Tai Tokerau, New Zealand 30 years ago the Children, Young Persons and their Families Act was enacted with a promise of radical change for...

Mr Luke Francis1, Ms Amanda  White2 1Youth Justice, Adelaide, Australia, 2Youth Justice, Adelaide , Australia Young people in contact with the Youth Justice system typically exhibit needs related to offending behaviour including emotional dysregulation, antisocial attitudes and peers, substance abuse,...

Ms Karen Freeman1 1NSW Bureau Of Crime Statistics And Research, Sydney, Australia There is an extensive body of criminological research examining the offending behaviour of young people; their characteristics, offending trajectories and the nature of their offending. Likewise, an extensive...