Ms Victoria Williams1, Ms  Sasha  Greenoff1 1Aboriginal Legal Service Of Western Australia, Perth, Australia Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are one of the most imprisoned groups in the world. WA has the highest rate of overrepresentation of Aboriginal and...

Dr Susan Baidawi1 1Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Children who come to the attention of statutory Child Protection services due to abuse, neglect and parental incapacity are twelve times more likely to offend and come under the supervision of Youth Justice...

Dr Rohan Borschmann1, Ms. Holly Tibble2, A/Prof. Matthew Spittal1, Mr.  Alexander Love1, Prof. Stuart Kinner3 1University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 2University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, 3Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia Background: We aimed to estimate the suicide rate in...

Ms Grace O’Brien1 1Phd Candidate University Of Technology Sydney, , Australia Despite ample international literature regarding the school-to-prison pipeline, juvenile justice researchers in the Australian context have remained relatively silent about this phenomenon.  While there are considerable studies investigating the...

Dr Danielle Harris1, Ms Stephanie McInerney 1Dr Danielle Harris, Mt Gravatt, Australia This study replicates recent work by Levenson et al., (2017) and Hall et al., (2018) to provide a cultural comparison of self-reported Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in a...

Mr Benjamin Bielski1 1Oranga Tamariki, , New Zealand, 2Ngāti Kahungunu, Wairua, Aotearoa Although the global trend toward evidence-based public policy and service design should be welcomed, it must also be approached with caution. Minority groups, especially indigenous populations, are disadvantaged...

Mr Joseph Kolapudi1 1Teen Challenge Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Currently, the state of the mental health sphere has reached a tipping point, especially in regards to youth and the justice system. The regulatory requirements of the land, coupled with the saturation...