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Previous Seminars

What Works in Juvenile Justice: Experiences of the NSW Young Offenders Act and future directions

A public seminar presented by the Institute of Criminology and co-sponsored by members of the Youth Justice Advisory Committee: NSW Police, NSW Attorney General's Department, NSW Legal Aid Commission and the NSW Department of Juvenile Justice.

Date: Wednesday 7 May 2003
Time: 5:00 - 7:00pm
Venue:Assembly Hall, Level 4
Sydney University Law School
173-175 Phillip Street, Sydney
Registration: Admission is free. Please register for catering purposes
Refreshments will be served

Chair:  Dr Patrick Power, SC, Chair of the Youth Justice Advisory Committee & Deputy Senior Crown  Prosecutor, Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions

Speakers:
Teresa O'Sullivan, Senior Solicitor, Children's Legal Service, NSW Legal Aid Commission
Provision of legal advice and the Legal Aid Commission Youth Hotline

Dr Janet Chan, Professor and Head, School of Social Science and Policy, University of New South Wales
Reshaping Juvenile Justice - a study of the first three years of the operation of the Young  Offenders Act 1997

Dr Heather Strang, Project Director, Justice Research Consortium, Oxford UK
What Works for Victims in Juvenile Justice

Helen Bowen, Criminal barrister and restorative justice trainer, Auckland New Zealand
Moving from Youth Conferencing to Adult Conferencing: the New Zealand Experience

 

 
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