Juvenile Justice

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Juvenile Justice

• Education Juvenile Justice - A FAYS Perspective

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FAYS Mandate

• Young Offenders Act 1993

• Object To secure the care, correction
  guidance necessary for young people who
  have offended to become responsible members of
  society.

• Ensuring protection of the community

• Accountability of the young person

• Restitution for victims

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FAYS Services

• Informing the Youth Court

• Bail, Social Background Psychological Reports

• 400 per year

• Supervision of Orders

• Bail - 400

• Obligations - 300

• Community Service Orders - 500

• Fine Payment Community Service Orders - 2000

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FAYS Services

• Community Care Support

• RINC - 8

• Aboriginal INC - 8

• Home Detention - 17

• Community Residential Care - 56

• Custody Release Support

• Remand, Detention Conditional Release

• Magill Cavan Training Centre - 1300
  admissions

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FAYS Programs

• Metropolitan Aboriginal Youth Team

• Special Programs for Youth

• Youth Adventure Recreation Service

• Independent Living Support Teams

• Mentoring

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Recidivism

• Risk Factors

• neglect/ poor parental supervision

• poverty/ entrenched disadvantage

• family violence

• school failure

• impulsivity

• neighbourhood violence and crime

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Recidivism

• Protective Factors

• empathy

• supportive caring parents/ other adult

• positive school environment

• school achievement

• opportunities for success

• sense of belonging

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Secure Care Residents

• Statistical Profile

• 1300 admissions

• Average daily occupancy 70

• 27 indigenous

• 25 under 15 yo

• 21 female - 79 male

• 60 indigenous

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Secure Care Residents

• Profile

• 48 living at home

• 69 friends in trouble with the law

• 80 misuse substances

• 23 use intravenously

• 34 have deliberately injured themselves

• 27 have attempted suicide

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Secure Care Residents

• Profile

• 54 think they have a bad temper

• 83 suspended or excluded from school

• 58 14 yo or less when left school

• 21 attending school pre-admission

• 25 below survival reading age

• 66 see themselves as impulsive

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What Works

• Holistic community based approaches

• Engagement/relationship

• Cognitive approaches to offending

• Stability

• Family support

• Opportunities for success

• Education and employment pathways

• Relapse prevention