JST532 Juvenile Justice 1 - Context (8)
Enrolment Restriction: JST532 is not available to students who have completed JST212
This subject provides a critical perspective on the social, political and legal context of juvenile justice policy and administration. It considers myths and facts about young people and crime, with reference to media and research. Other foci are the historical emergence of competing ideologies of juvenile crime and the continuum of legal, policy and program responses. Welfare, justice and republican paradigms adopted in western jurisdictions are considered, along with key theories and research that have informed their adoption in western jurisdictions. Australian State/Territory exemplars assist students to critique the roles of key policy and administrative decision-makers, and the extent to which systemic responses address the citizenship rights and responsibilities of young people.