New Zealand is making some progress in its treatment of children and young people. But there is still a way to go to meet its obligations under international law.
Youth in New Mexico used their own experiences with arrest and incarceration to advocate for others.
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Dan Birman, director of the new Netflix feature documentary ‘Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story,’ discusses his filmmaking process and the importance of the case.
About 1.6 million minors are arrested in the U.S. every year.
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In a survey, 56% of Americans aged 14 to 24 said they knew little to nothing about the juvenile justice system.
The youth justice system should consider alternative community-based models that better recognise the ability for young people to abandon crime.
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Australia should look to the New Zealand model, which has a strong focus on community, and recognises that the majority of young people grow-out of participating in crime.
The Northern Territory is the only Australian jurisdiction where the media can identify juvenile offenders. The government now wants to end the practice.
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A neuroscientist explains how detention can affect a developing mind, as a new law in California sets the highest age limit in the US for minors to be held criminally responsible, at age 12.
Plans for an industrial school in Feltham, England.
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Cyntoia Brown was just 16 years old when she shot and killed a man in 2004. Under Tennessee law, she won’t be eligible for parole until she is 67 years old. Is such a harsh sentence constitutional?
Yoga programs specifically designed to heal girls’ trauma are showing results in facilities across the country. Here’s how.
Children currently in – or who have histories with – residential care services are more likely to have contact with the justice system.
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Knowing why people with troubled childhoods may be more likely to engage in criminal activity is necessary to inform the development of effective prevention and early intervention initiatives.
Riots have hit youth detention centres in both Australia and the US.
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Australian jurisdictions should enact permanent solutions to juvenile justice crises that replace large and ineffective youth prisons with a safer, more decent alternative.
Policymakers are reluctant to acknowledge the care system is producing criminals.
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Important questions are being asked about why children were abused in juvenile detention in the Northern Territory. But we also need to ask why children are being detained at all.
Should places like the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre even exist?
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The Don Dale scandal is an opportunity to ask whether incarceration achieves the aims it sets out to achieve, or just further hardens criminals.
George Brandis, former NT chief justice Brian Martin, who will head the royal commission, and Malcolm Turnbull announce the commission’s terms of reference.
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The royal commission’s terms of reference hold some promise, but more needs to be done about juvenile justice and child protection systems across Australia.
The shocking abuse of young inmates at the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre has prompted a royal commission.
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The shocking incidents at the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre, revealed this week, are not in isolation.
The forthcoming royal commission should bring recommendations that could improve the future treatment of young people in juvenile detention.
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Awareness of social factors, such as society’s perpetuation of masculinity, are critical to understanding the interconnections between trauma, disadvantage and substance abuse in young men.