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YSED607 Justice and Young People

10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation Students will participate in the equivalent of 24 hours class contact in a semester in a range of face-to-face and flexible-delivery approaches.

The purpose of this unit is to introduce students to the youth justice system. Theories of juvenile delinquency have existed for more than 50 years and the separate justice system for young people originated in the late 1890s in the United States of America. The outcomes of separate laws and justice systems will be examined. Theories of causation and treatment models will be explored. The welfare model and the criminal justice model will be discussed. The development of case management models of intervention will be critically analysed. Indigenous issues in the juvenile justice system will be carefully examined.

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