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Cyntoia Brown has been granted clemency for killing a man when she was a teenager and forced into the sex trade. The case showed why the justice system must stop punishing women for defending themselves.
Why is the age of criminal responsibility in the UK the lowest in the European Union?
If the UK is to break the cycle of reoffending, it needs to meet the basic needs of young people in prison and respect the basic human right of adequate nutrition.
There are no easy answers when it comes to tackling knife crime but young people must be at the centre of any possible solution.
Politicians like to appear tough on crime in election years. But Victoria's move to require youth offenders to wear electronic monitoring devices may not have a real impact.
Efforts to regulate social media and censor drill music are wasted. Instead, teachers and police need to give young people opportunities to grow.
Violence in UK schools is at record levels, but expelling pupils isn't always the answer.
The police in schools model abolished in Victoria in 2006 represents an outdated, paternalistic approach to youth crime and would not likely reduce youth crime rates if we brought it back now.
Tough-on-crime models of policing students don't reduce youth crime, but community engagement programs for at-risk youth can be beneficial.
Tim Nicholls said the introduction of a youth curfew in the WA suburb of Northbridge 'saw a dramatic drop in crime and a reduction in the anti-social behaviour of young people'. Is that right?
It's too easy to blame gang culture.
Jeff Sessions was met with considerable skepticism when he announced his desire to revive D.A.R.E. But it turns out that the current program is nothing like the ineffective D.A.R.E. of the '80's and '90's.
The murder of 11-year-old Rhys Jones in Liverpool in 2007 sparked a national debate on armed gangs – but what has changed 10 years on?
In the age of social media and online self-promotion, being the subject of a moral panic can not only be a source of pride, but also an inducement to offend.
Two teenagers have been sentenced to life for a double murder. But their crime is extremely rare.
Children in care are criminalised too early – and don't receive the support they need.
The shocking incidents at the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre, revealed this week, are not in isolation.
Victorian police are attributing a rise in car thefts to the "Grand Theft Auto Generation". But blaming video games just distracts from bigger questions of inequality and societal detachment.
At age ten, children in England, Northern Ireland and Wales can be found guilty of a criminal offence. They can face trial and be placed in detention. We don’t allow children of ten to hold a driver’s…
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Professor and Head, Rural Health School, La Trobe University
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Lecturer in Psychosocial Analysis of Offending Behaviour, Edge Hill University
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Evolutionary Biologist, ARC Future Fellow, UNSW
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Assistant Professor, Criminology, Bond University
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Associate professor, Deakin University
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Senior lecturer, Queensland University of Technology
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Research Analyst, Australian Institute of Criminology
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Associate Professor in Criminology, Bond University
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Professor in Media and Communication, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Professor of Criminology, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor in Criminology, University of Nottingham
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Director of Slang and New Language Archive, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, King's College London
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Lecturer in Criminology, Lancaster University
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Lecturer in Criminology, University of Melbourne
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PhD Candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant, Edge Hill University
