Saturday, May 28, 2005

The Transition from juvenile to adult criminal careers / [Australia] BOCSAR, May 2005

http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/bocsar/ll_bocsar.nsf/vwFiles/cjb86.pdf/$file/cjb86.pdf
Shuling Chen, Tania Matruglio, Don Weatherburn and Jiuzhao Hua
"More than 68 per cent of the juvenile offenders who appeared for the first
time in the NSW Children’s Court in 1995 reappeared in a NSW criminal court
within the next eight years. More than one in 10 (i.e. 13 per cent) ended
up in an adult prison within this period."