Join us on: 
|
|
 |
 |
Story Archive
Foster Care
Young Family Homelessness
Education
Juvenile Justice
Vulnerable Children & Young People
Who are the children and young people in juvenile justice?
We know that we can make a real difference by keeping children and young people out of juvenile justice detention. That means addressing the risk factors that can lead to contact with juvenile justice, reforming the system so that fewer children and young people are held on remand (4,000 every year are held on remand but will not get a custodial sentence) and changing our laws to make it easier for children and young people to get bail if they have been arrested.
Join our advocacy community to work with Burnside to advocate for transformation of the juvenile justice system in NSW and find out more about this issue at our Facts and Figures page.
July 4th, 2011 •
2 Comments
2 Responses
Please Comment
Find us on..
copyright © 2011 UnitingCare Burnside
If we look at our Juvenile Justice System or our Correctional facilities, purely from a business point of view, we would shut it down. As a business plan it is a dismal failure.
Pulling together the data on the young people in our juvenile justice system induced anger and despair. Sixty per cent of young people in juvie had a history of child abuse or trauma, 1/3 had an intellectual disability, nearly 90% had a psychological disorder…….The reponse screams out for greater investment in early intervention, intensive family support and adolescent mental health. Incarceration is not the answer.