A Children’s Rights Assessment of Juvenile Detention in Australia

Canvassing the socio-legal context for youth detention in Australia with a focus on international human rights law and legal frameworks within Australian states and territories, this book examines the recurring children's rights-violations of recent years, and puts forward strategies for reform.

List of contents

Introduction
PART I: Socio-Legal context for youth detention in Australia
1. Detention of children in Australia: hyperincarceration and over-representation
2. Australia's international human rights law obligations
3. Legal and policy framework for youth detention in Australia
4. Monitoring and oversight of youth detention in Australia
PART II: Children's rights violations in youth detention in Australia
5. Low minimum age of criminal responsibility
6. Failure to separate children from adults
7. Degrading treatment / failure to treat children humanely
8. Insufficient health services, standard of living, and connections with family, community, and culture
PART III: Strategies for reform
9. Towards children's-rights compliance

About the author

Anita Mackay has been researching the compliance of Australian closed environments with Australia's international human rights law obligations since 2011. She has been an academic at La Trobe Law School (La Trobe University, Melbourne) since 2016 and is currently a Senior Lecturer. Dr Mackay's 2020 book titled Towards Human Rights Compliance in Australian Prisons won the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC) biennial Christine M. Alder award in 2021. Prior to 2011, Dr Mackay worked as a senior legal officer in a variety of government policy areas, including family law and access to justice.

Summary

Canvassing the socio-legal context for youth detention in Australia with a focus on international human rights law and legal frameworks within Australian states and territories, this book examines the recurring children’s rights-violations of recent years, and puts forward strategies for reform.

Product details

• Authors: Anita MacKay, Mackay Anita
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.09.2024
• EAN: 9781032506074
• ISBN: 978-1-03-250607-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Weight: 453 g
• Illustrations: Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Series: Directions and Developments in Criminal Justice and Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Human Rights, Australia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / Criminal Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Australian & Oceanian, LAW / Criminal Law / Juvenile Offenders, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, Juvenile offenders, Criminal justice law, Juvenile Criminal Law