Saturday, March 05, 2005

Regulating Police Discretion: An Assessment of the Impact of the New South Wales Young Offenders Act 1997 / restorative Justice, Mar 2005

http://www.realjustice.org/library/au05_bargen.html
Jenny Bargen, Director, Youth Justice Conferencing, New South Wales Department of Juvenile Justice, Australia.
"Relates a brief account of youth pre-court diversion in Australia, from the use of informal police warnings and cautions in the 1930s, through the beginning of this century, when all Australian states and territories introduced some form of restorative conferencing as part of their juvenile justice system. She then focused on New South Wales' Young Offenders Act 1997 (YOA) as a case study in this latter
approach."