Characteristics of adolescent sex offenders in New South Wales

AbstractCharacteristics of adolescents who sexually offend, their patterns of their offending behaviour and the defining features of their victims are firmly established in the overseas literature. The research literature in Australia, however, is less developed. This study describes the characteristics of a sample of clients of the Sex Offender Program of the New South Wales Department of Juvenile Justice and examines patterns of offence behaviours and related descriptions of victims. Adolescents who sexually offend in NSW have backgrounds of low educational attainment and abuse and a range of other social risk factors, and they are most likely to victimise female children. A typology of adolescent sex offenders based on their offending behaviour is offered.

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An Integrated Case Management Model to Assist Pacific Youth Offenders and Their Families in Australia

Care Management Journals ◽

10.1891/1521-0987.17.4.170 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 17 (4) ◽

pp. 170-179

Author(s):

Jioji Ravulo

Keyword(s):

Case Management ◽

New South ◽

New South Wales ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Management Model ◽

Social Risk ◽

Social Risk Factors ◽

Youth Offenders ◽

South Wales ◽

Integrated Case Management

Pasifika Support Services (PSS) was a program managed by a nongovernment organization, Mission Australia, and funded by the New South Wales Premiers Office to meet the needs of young offenders from a Pacific background. PSS ran from June 2005 to June 2009 and implemented a cost-effective integrated case management model with the New South Wales Police Force adapted to address social risk factors specific to Pacific youth offenders and family support networks. Sixty young people were reviewed regarding the outcomes achieved through their participation, further supported by an evaluation carried out by an external evaluator who found that 65% of participants did not reoffend after 18 months of completing the program. An importance of developing a shared approach to employing a holistic and intensive model of case management that affects individual, community, and organizational change through culturally relevant processes and practices, paired with a cross institutional commitment underpins the various outcomes discussed.

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Difficult Dialogue: Conversations with Aboriginal Parents and Caregivers

The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education ◽

10.1375/s1326011100000594 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 38 (1) ◽

pp. 55-64 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Debra Hayes ◽

Ken Johnston ◽

Kristal Morris ◽

Kerith Power ◽

Dianne Roberts

Keyword(s):

Secondary School ◽

New South ◽

New South Wales ◽

Research Literature ◽

Public Secondary School ◽

South Wales ◽

Policy Goals ◽

Country Town ◽

Difficult Dialogue ◽

Parents And Caregivers

AbstractIndigenous conversation and voice are increasingly heard in the research literature but there needs to be more dialogue in order for it to be a two-way conversation. This paper contributes to research that attempts to redress this situation by reporting on conversations with Aboriginal parents and caregivers of students enrolled in a public secondary school in a large New South Wales country town. The conversations were conducted over a three-year period (2005-7) by a team non-Indigenous researchers working in collaboration with Indigenous researchers. In this paper, we describe the various approaches we developed to establish conversations with Aboriginal parents and caregivers, and the various themes that emerged over the course of the study. We also assess how this type of research is located within and contributes to, the existing research literature. Finally, we discuss the importance of ongoing conversations with Aboriginal parents and caregivers, and how schools and systems can better respond to well-established policy goals of productive parent-school relationships.

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