Advocates are urging the Commonwealth to step in as states and territories openly disregard international human rights obligations for kids.

The federal government has been urged to take responsibility for ensuring youth justice policies uphold children's human ...

But in the rehabilitative versus punitive model ... “For decades, the criminal justice system was based on the fact that prison was a deterrent, but kids now just don’t care,” Beaumont ...

This article is the second of a two-part series regarding the rise of violent crimes committed by juveniles in Southeast Texas and the effort to give teens new life outside of the criminal justice ...

Making the justice system harsher and more punitive doesn't deter children ... In the Northern Territory, the age of criminal responsibility has recently been reduced to 10 years old, the ...

These courts aim to divert individuals from traditional punitive ... legal system. Diversion Programs: Programs designed to redirect individuals away from the traditional criminal justice process ...

She rejects the simplistic, punitive notion of giving perpetrators ... That’s why she laments a society beholden to a criminal justice system that prioritizes neither the transformation of ...

An open letter to Shabana Mahmood, Secretary of State for Justice and Lord High Chancellor ... The increasingly punitive sentencing and treatment of people in the legal system is causing immeasurable ...

“Such practice of pardon does not serve the public interest and its security, but represents political arbitrariness and a clear example of party instrumentalization of the current repressive and ...

The Teslin Tlingit Council (TTC) has taken another step toward administering its own justice system, with the signing of a ...