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 ...

We cannot rely solely on the expansion of law enforcement or tough-on-crime punitive measures ... individuals are released from the criminal justice system each year, Clean Slate represents ...

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 ...

Someone commits a crime, and they are removed from their community – no questions asked. No one asks why they did it, what ...

President Donald Trump should look to Florida and Virginia for a model of good criminal justice reform policies.

“For decades, the criminal justice system was based on the fact that ... However, it later became a punitive facility, briefly housing offenders without any programming beyond their Beaumont ...

Milwaukee's new DA Kent Lovern discusses his priorities, concerns and hopes for Milwaukee County with the press club.

The move towards these alternatives signifies a shift towards reformative justice, though the new laws largely retain the punitive character of the criminal justice system. These alternatives aim to ...

“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 ...