Juvenile justice

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Title:	Get street smart: under 18? know your legal rights 6th ed	Details »
Link:	www.legalaid.nsw.gov.au/asp/index.asp?pgid=507
Date:	July 2006

Title:	Lawstuff website	Details »
Note:	Plain language information about the rights of young people, including practical information about rights and responsibilities at school, including bullying at school, employment issues, leaving school, alcohol and drugs, criminal law, and the police. Offers an email-back facility, LawMail, which allows young people to seek legal advice.
Link:	www.lawstuff.org.au

At your public library

Title:	Children and young people. Chapter 8: The law handbook 10th edition - a Find Legal Answers Tool Kit book	Details »
Note:	Includes practical information about the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, children and criminal law, including the Children's Court, young offenders, the care and protection of children, employment and income issues, discrimination, the age of consent and children's services, adoption, school.
Date:	2007
Where:	At your public library

Title:	Juvenile justice - Hot Topics series	Details »
Note:	The 'juvenile justice system' is a term used to describe the way young people are treated in the criminal justice system. Over the past 25 years in Australia, juvenile justice has been the subject of extensive research and attention. The shift nationally has generally been away from the 'welfare model', which attributes youth crime to social, economic and psychological factors resulting in the need to protect young people, to the 'justice model', which calls to 'get tough on crime' from politicians and the media, and greater emphasis on punishment. At the same time, there is a move to a 'restorative justice model', associated with increased victims' rights and involving diversion of young people away from the traditional court system.
Date:	2004
Where:	At your public library

Title:	Youth justice: your guide to cops and court 3rd ed - Find Legal Answers Tool Kit book (supplements at http://www.federationpress.com.au/bookstore/book.asp?isbn=1862874794)	Details »
Author:	Sanders, Jane and Grainger, Ragnii
Note:	Practical information about victims of crime, apprehended violence orders, dealing with police, police questioning, custody rights, youth justice conferences, bail, Local Court processes, unpaid fines, disadvantaged people in the criminal justice system, and a glossary.
Date:	2003
Where:	At your public library

At your closest LIAC library

Title:	Joe's conference: what happens at a youth justice conference (video) - printed book in LIAC libraries	Details »
Note:	An excellent video about youth justice conferences, which follows the story of Joe, who stole a car, was caught by the police and sent to a youth justice conference. OUT OF PRINT.
Date:	2000
Where:	At your closest LIAC library

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