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Results for juvenile offenders (tasmania)
1 results foundAuthor: Magistrates Court Tasmania Title: Hobart Specialised Youth Justice Court Pilot: Evaluation Report Summary: The Specialised Youth Justice Court Pilot commenced operation in the Hobart registry of the Magistrates Court of Tasmania in January 2011. The evaluation period ranges from commencement until September 2012. The Pilot will formally end with the Magistrates Court's acceptance of this report in October 2013. If the recommendations of this report are accepted, the SYJC will continue in the Hobart registry of the Magistrates Court, and be adopted in Launceston in 2014. The Specialised Youth Justice Court operates as a specialist list in Hobart, but it is not a separate or distinct court. Over the course of its operation it has been presided over by a designated or 'specialist' youth justice magistrate, with a relief magistrate presiding over a small youth justice case load and available to cover situations where the primary magistrate has not been available. The Pilot has operated without any specific or additional budgetary allocation to the Court or any of the agencies involved in its development and implementation. Rather, the operational arrangements were absorbed by existing budgets and integrated into established business practices. The Hobart Specialised Youth Justice Court consists of two related streams. Firstly, there is a general stream in which all youth justice matters triable summarily are listed. This is, in effect the Youth Justice Division of the Magistrates Court, a court constituted by a magistrate to hear and determine criminal charges against people under the age of 18. The Pilot altered the legal landscape in Hobart by allocating a primary and a relief magistrate to the Youth Justice Division, as distinct from the eight magistrates who presided prior to the Pilot. Secondly, the Pilot introduced a 'Special List' as a subset of the general youth justice list that would hear and determine complex matters assessed as needing a therapeutic jurisprudence approach. The Special List is concerned with vulnerable young offenders, such as those with drug and alcohol and/or mental health problems or other serious vulnerability. The Special List uses regular judicial case supervision to try to improve the circumstances of the offender, and support them to develop the skills and resilience needed to escape cycles of disadvantage and offending behaviour. The specific aims of the Pilot were to achieve: - Improved timeliness to finalisation of youth justice matters - Encouragement of more consistency in the court's decisions - Greater development and application of expertise in youth justice matters - Better coordination of youth justice support services to the court - Increased collaborative approaches between the agencies involved in youth. Details: Hobart: Magistrates Court Tasmania, 2013. 117p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed May 10, 2014 at: http://www.magistratescourt.tas.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/269718/Hobart_Specialised_Youth_Justice_Court_Pilot_-_Evaluation_Report_Sept_2013.pdf Year: 2013 Country: Australia URL: http://www.magistratescourt.tas.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/269718/Hobart_Specialised_Youth_Justice_Court_Pilot_-_Evaluation_Report_Sept_2013.pdf Shelf Number: 132318 Keywords: Juvenile CourtJuvenile Offenders (Tasmania) |