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Northern Territory Youth Justice Resources

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

Crime, the law and criminal records

Formal cautions

Penalties given by the court

Police Powers and my rights with the Police

Powers of security guards

Youth justice conferences

Legal Cases

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

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

Legislation

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

2006 - 02 March: Youth Justice Regulations 2006

2002 - 03 July: Juvenile Justice Act (Repealed)

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)

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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)

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

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

Review of the Juvenile Justice Act - 23 March 2004

Youth Justice Information (NT Government)

Inside the Youth Justice Court

Types of sentences for young people

Young people and going to court

Young people: community supervision

Young people: diversion programs