Documents

NT Law Handbook: Young People and Crime (Northern Territory Legal Aid Commission) - 17 June 2019

Legal Advice

(Youth Law Australia)

About the youth justice system

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Alcohol

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Cigarettes

Crime, the law and criminal records

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Drugs

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Fake ID cards

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Formal cautions

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Graffiti

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Penalties given by the court

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Police Powers and my rights with the Police

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Powers of security guards

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Warnings

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Youth justice conferences

Legal Cases

2018 - 17 August: NT youth detention lawsuit alleges new raft of human rights abuses inside centres (ABC News)

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2017 - 27 November: NT Youth Justice class action (Maurice Blackburn Lawyers)

Legislation

2006 - 01 August: Youth Justice Act 2005, No. 32

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2006 - 02 March: Youth Justice Regulations 2006

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2002 - 03 July: Juvenile Justice Act (Repealed)

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2000 - 10 April: Amendment of the Northern Territory (Self-Government) Act 1978 Bill 2000 (Federal Register of Legislation)

Mandatory Sentencing

2015 - December: Review of the Northern Territory Sentencing Amendment (Mandatory Minimum Sentences) Act 2013 (Department of the Attorney-General and Justice)

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2014 - May: Policy Discussion Paper on Mandatory Sentencing (Law Council of Australia)

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2000 - June: Mandatory Gaol Sentences for Minor Property Crime in Australia's Northern Territory (Gordon Renouf, Cultural Survival Quarterly Magazine)

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1998 - June: A Year of Bad Policy: Mandatory sentencing in the Northern Territory (Louis Schetzer, Alternative Law Journal)

Naming and Shaming Debate

​2019 - 13 June: ‘Naming and shaming’ juvenile offenders or open justice? A new battle over press freedom (The Conversation)

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2019 - 01 June: NT plan for closed courts would end 'naming and shaming' children, advocates say (The Guardian Australia)

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2017 - 06 September: Naming and shaming Northern Territory kids a breach of human rights, children's commissioner says (ABC News)

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2015 - 18 June: Calls For Aboriginal Juvenile To Be Shot For Target Practice After Public Shaming By NT Police (New Matilda)

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2012 - 21 May: Naming and Shaming of Indigenous Youth in the Justice System: An Exploratory Study of the Impact in the Northern Territory (Duncan Chappell and Robyn Lincoln, for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies)

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​2006: April: 'Naming and Shaming' Juvenile Offenders in the Northern Territory (Mark Hunter, Balance: Journal of the Northern Territory Law Society)

Reports

2017 - 17 November: Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory - Interim Report

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2017 - 17 November: Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory - Findings and Recommendations

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2017 - 10 July: Reforming the Northern Territory's youth justice system: Supplementary submission to the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory (Human Rights Law Centre)

2015 - January: Review of the Northern Territory Youth Detention System Report (Michael Vita, for the Minister for Correctional Services)

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2011 - September: A Review of the Northern Territory Youth Justice System - Northern Territory Government

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2007 - June: Pre-court diversion in the Northern Territory: impact on juvenile reoffending (Teresa Cunningham, Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice No.339)

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Review of the Juvenile Justice Act - 23 March 2004

Youth Justice Information (NT Government)

Inside the Youth Justice Court

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Types of sentences for young people

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Young people and going to court

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Young people: community supervision

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Young people: diversion programs