Research publications
This page contains a list of publications arising from approved research projects. Learn more about the different research areas on young people and Youth Justice NSW.
Publications from approved research projects
Please note that the views expressed in the following publications do not necessarily represent any official views of Youth Justice NSW.
Disability
| Year | Title | Author/s |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | The wrong kind of attention – how does NSW identify and manage children with neuro-development impairments in contact with the criminal justice system? An examination of key legislation, policies and procedures. Masters thesis, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. | Tyler, K. |
| 2020 | Systems integration to promote the mental health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children – protocol for a community driven continuous quality improvement approach | McCalman, J. Bainbridge, R., Cadet James, Y. et al. |
| 2015 | A predictable and preventable path – Aboriginal people with mental and cognitive disabilities in the criminal justice system | Baldry, E., McCausland, R., Dowse, L. and McEntyre, E. |
| 2014 | Risk assessment of juvenile sexual offenders with intellectual disabilities | Christopher, M. |
Diversion and early intervention
| Year | Title | Author/s |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Under-utilising youth diversion – exploring criminal justice Perspectives, unpublished Doctoral dissertation, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia. | Pearce, E. |
| 2018 | An evaluation of Youth Justice Conferencing for youth misuse of fire Unpublished Doctoral dissertation, Queensland University of Technology, Queensland, Australia. View report [PDF, 3.9MB] | Pooley, K. |
| 2017 | "Since I went to the conference… I have really thought just how bad lighting fires are” – diversionary conferencing for youth misuse of fire | Pooley, K. |
| 2017 | Youth Justice Conferencing for youth misuse of fire – a child-centred disaster risk reduction mechanism Australian Journal of Emergency Management, 32(2), 54-59. View report [PDF, 182kb] | Pooley, K. |
| 2012 | The use of police cautions and Youth Justice Conferences in NSW in 2012 | Moore, E. |
| 2012 | Youth Justice Conferences – participant profile and conference characteristics Crime and Justice Statistics, Bureau Brief, 75. | Taussig, I. |
| 2012 | Youth Justice Conference versus Children’s Court – a comparison of re-offending Crime and Justice Bulletin, Contemporary Issues in Crime and Justice, 160. | Smith, N., & Weatherburn, D. |
| 2012 | Youth Justice Conferences versus Children’s Court – a comparison of time to finalisation Crime and Justice Statistics, Bureau Brief, 74. | Moore, E. |
Domestic and family violence
| Year | Title | Author/s |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Making the invisible, visible – seeking the voices of justice involved young women in homelessness discourse Parity, 35 (1), 42-43. View report [PDF, 4.6MB] | Rak, L. |
| 2022 | No filter needed – interweaving deep listening with visual methods in practice with young justice-involved Aboriginal women FRSA Conference E-Journal, 5, 62-69. | Rak, L., Cocuzzoli, R., & Randall, E. |
| 2018 | Crime and context – understandings of youth perpetrated interpersonal violence among service providers in Regional Australia | Blakemore, T., Rak, L., Agllias, K., Mallett, X., & and McCarthy, S. |
Drugs and alcohol
| Year | Title | Author/s |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Healing journeys – experiences of young Aboriginal people in an urban Australian therapeutic community drug and alcohol program | Hill, B., Williams, M., Woolfenden, S., Martin, B., Palmer, K. & Nathan, S. |
| 2022 | Hospitalisation following therapeutic community drug and alcohol treatment for young people with and without a history of criminal conviction Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 1, 231: 109280. View report. | Whitton, T., Cale, J., Nathan, S., Bista, S., Ferry, M., Williams, M., Rawstorne, P. & Hayen, A. |
| 2022 | A qualitative study exploring young offenders’ perspectives on alcohol and other drug health promotion BMC Public Health, 22: 568. View report. | Deans, E., Ravulo, J., Conroy, E. & Abdo, J. |
Education
| Year | Title | Author/s |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | A snapshot of education behind the fence – supporting engagement in education of incarcerated youth in Australia International Journal of Educational Research, 85, 33-42. View report. | Strnadová, I., O'Neill, S. C., Cumming, T. M. |
| 2018 | Juvenile justice and education engagement – practitioner perspectives from Regional Australia. Manuscript submitted for publication. | Blakemore, T., Agllias, K., McCarthy, S. & Ross, N. |
Language and communication
| Year | Title | Author/s |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Cognitive and affective perspective taking amongst adolescent offenders with variants of callous-unemotional traits. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 33, 2755-2765. View report. | Anderson, S., Hawes, D. J. & Snow, P. C. |
| 2023 | The narrative language of youth offenders with callous and unemotional traits: A corpus analysis. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 28(1), 91–105. View report. | Bowman, L., Anderson, S. A. S., Snow, P. C., & Hawes, D. J. |
| 2023 | Oral language skills, callous and unemotional traits and high-risk patterns of youth offending European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 32, 1679–1689. View report. | Anderson, S. A. S., Hawes, D. J. & Snow, P. C. |
| 2021 | Higher order language – risk, promotive, and risk-based protective associations with youth offending Crime and Delinquency, 68: 5. View report. | Anderson, S. A. S., Hawes, D. J. & Snow, P. C. |
| 2017 | Speech-language pathology intervention in a youth justice setting – benefits perceived by staff extend beyond communication International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 1-10. View report. | Snow, P.C., Bagley, K. & White, D. |
| 2016 | Intervening to address communication difficulties in incarcerated youth – a phase 1 clinical trial International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 19(4), 392-406. View report. | Snow, P.C. & Woodward, M.N. |
| 2016 | Language functioning, mental health and alexithymia in incarcerated young offenders International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 18(1), 20-31. View report. | Snow, P.C., Woodward, M.N., Mathis, M. & Powell, M.B. |
| 2016 | Language impairments among youth offenders – a systematic review Children and Youth Services Review, 65, 195-203. View report. | Anderson, S.A.S., Hawes, D. J. & Snow, P.C. |
Post-release support
| Year | Title | Author/s |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Criminal justice transitions among adolescents in Australia: A multi-state model. Journal of Criminal Justice, Vol 92 View report. | Akpanekpo, E., Kariminia, A., Srasuebkul, P., et al. |
| 2021 | Young, in trouble and with nowhere to go – homeless adolescents’ pathways into and out of detention in NSW Yfoundations View report. | Watt, E., Iannelli, O., Booth, S. & Gale, N. |
| 2018 | Transition planning processes for young people serving custodial sentences in New South Wales, Australia Australasian Journal of Special and Inclusive Education. View report. | Cumming ,T., Strnadova, I., & O'Neill, S. |
| 2017 | Applying positive psychology to illuminate the needs of adolescent males transitioning out of juvenile detention International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 61(1), 64-79. View report. | Tracey, D. & Hanham, J. |
| 2017 | Evolution of mentoring relationships involving young male offenders transitioning from a Juvenile Justice Centre to the community Youth Justice, 17(2), 116-133. View report. | Hanham, J. & Tracey, D. |
| 2017 | Systems barriers to community re-entry for incarcerated youths – a review Children and Youth Services Review, 79, 29 – 36. View report. | O'Neill, S.C., Strnadová, I., & Cumming, T.M. |
| 2017 | Young people transitioning from Juvenile Justice to the community – transition planning and interagency collaboration Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 29(1), 19–38. View report. | Strnadova, I., Cumming, T.M., & O'Neill, S.C. |
Programs and practice
| Year | Title | Author/s |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Improving social climate in youth detention | Trotter, C., Evans, P. & Powers, T. |
| 2021 | Access and engagement with services for sexual safety School of Health and Society, University of Wollongong. View report. | Spangaro, J., Kor, K., Payne, et al. |
| 2021 | Access and engagement with services for sexual safety for children and young people with problematic and harmful sexual behaviour (AccESSS Study) School of Health and Society, University of Wollongong. View report. | Spangaro, J., Kor, K., Payne, et al. |
| 2021 | Participation is not enough – practices associated with giving due weight to the views of children and young people in out-of-home care policy-making in Australia PhD thesis, Southern Cross University. View report. | Vosz. M. |
| 2019 | Collaborative family work in Youth Justice Australian Social Work, 73, 267-279. View report. | Trotter, C., Evans, P. & Baidawi, S. |
| 2019 | Program attrition among youth and its relationship with re-offending from the Changing Habits and Reaching Targets (CHART) program Unpublished Master's thesis, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. | Nastaly, J. |
| 2018 | Can mindfulness with incarcerated youth reduce impulsivity, anger and institutional misconduct? A randomised controlled trial Unpublished Master's thesis, Australian College of Applied Psychology, Sydney, Australia. | Porter, C. |
| 2017 | Challenging pro-criminal attitudes and behaviours of juvenile offenders Unpublished Doctoral dissertation, Monash University, Victoria, Australia. View report [PDF, 4.6MB] | Evans, P. |
| 2017 | The effectiveness of challenging skills in work with young offenders International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology, 61(4), 397-412. View report. | Trotter, C., Evans, P. & Baidawi, S. |
| 2015 | Connecting through music – the contribution of a music programme to fostering positive youth development Research Studies in Music Education, 37(1), 37-54. View report. | Barrett, M.S. & Bond, N. |
| 2015 | Do incarcerated boys with callous unemotional traits benefit from cognitive behavioural therapy?Unpublished Master’s thesis, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. | Brandler, A.L. |
| 2015 | Good practice in community-based supervision of Aboriginal youth offenders Australian Social Work 68(1), 5-18. View report. | Trotter, C., Baidawi, S. & Evans, P. |
| 2014 | How does empathy in Juvenile Justice work? Empathy as context for Juvenile Justice Officers in working with young people who offend: assessment, intervention, attitude, positioning, and motivation Unpublished Master’s thesis, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. | Cooney, A. |
| 2012 | Analysing of supervision skills of Juvenile Justice workers Report to the Criminology Research Advisory Council Grant: CRG 24/07-08. View report [PDF, 187kb] | Trotter, C. & Evans, P. |
| 2012 | Developing learning identities in and through music – a case study of the outcomes of a music programme in an Australian juvenile detention centre International Journal of Music Education, 30(3), 244-259. View report. | Barrett, M.S. & Baker, J.S. |
Risk
| Year | Title | Author/s |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Engaging young people and their caregivers in support services following harmful sexual behaviours: Qualitative analysis. Child Abuse & Neglect, 139, 106128 View report. | Kor, K., Hanley, N., Fabrianesi, B. et al |
| 2022 | Exploring the types and characteristics of information sources practitioners use to administer risk assessments. Unpublished Honours thesis, UNSW | Li, Zixuan |
| 2020 | The development of a criminal identity among adolescent males PhD thesis, Monash University. View report. | Warton, T. |
| 2019 | A comparative analysis of the risk profiles of Australian young offenders from rural and urban communities. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 63(14). View report. | Butcher, L., Day, A., Miles, D., & Kidd, G. |
| 2018 | Differentiating predictive validity and practical utility for the Australian adaptation of the Youth Level of Service/Case Management Inventory Criminal Justice and Behavior, 45(6), 820 – 839. View report. | McGrath, A.J., Thompson, A.P. & Goodman-Delahunty, J. |
| 2018 | The functional consistency of proximal dynamic risk factors across co-occurring behavioural problems – do juvenile arsonists and general offenders differ? Unpublished Doctoral dissertation, Bond University, Queensland, Australia. | Perks, D. |
| 2017 | Using environmental criminology theories to compare ‘youth misuse of fire’ across age groups in New South Wales Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 50(1), 100-122. View report [PDF, 414kb] | Pooley, K. & Ferguson, C. E. |
| 2016 | Identifying key pathways into sexual offending for juvenile offenders and exploring possible differences for the Aboriginal community Sexual Abuse in Australia and New Zealand, 7(1), 18-30. View report [PDF, 115kb] | Gathercole, M.F., Lykins, A.D., & Dunstan, D.A. |
| 2012 | Subgroup differences and implications for contemporary risk-need assessment with juvenile offenders Law and Human Behavior, 36(4), 345-355. View report. | Thompson, A. P., & McGrath, A. |
| 2007 | Predicting juvenile offender recidivism – risk-need assessment and Juvenile Justice officers Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 14(1), 138-146. View report | Upperton, R. A. & Thompson, A. P. |
Young People in Custody Health Survey (YPiCHS)
| Year | Title | Author/s |
|---|---|---|
2023 | The prevalence of mental illness in young people in custody over time: A comparison of three surveys in NSW. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 31(2), 235–253 View report. | Marr, C., Gaskin, C., Kasinathan, J. et al. |
| 2019 | Predictors of overweight and obesity among youth in juvenile detention in New South Wales, Australia Manuscript submitted for publication. | Ross, J., Kaye, S., Field, C., Lewandowski, A. & Bowman, J. |
| 2015 | 2015 Young People in Custody Health Survey Justice Health & Forensic Mental Health Network and Juvenile Justice, Sydney. View report. | Justice Health & Forensic Mental Health Network & Juvenile Justice NSW |
| 2014 | Traumatic brain injury, mental health, substance use and offending among young people in custody Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 29(3), 239-47. View report. | Moore, E., Haysom, L., & Indig, D. |
| 2012 | Smoking behaviours among young people in custody in New South Wales, Australia Drug and Alcohol Review, 31, 631-37. View report. | Indig D, & Haysom L. |
| 2011 | 2009 NSW young people in custody health survey – full report Justice Health and Juvenile Justice, Sydney | Indig, D., Vecchiato, C., Haysom, L., Beilby, R., Carter, J., Champion, U., Gaskin, C., Heller, E., Kumar, S., Mamone, N., Muir, P., van den Dolder, P. & Whitton, G. |
| 2006 | NSW young people on community orders health survey 2003-2006 – key findings report The University of Sydney. | Kenny, D.T., Nelson, P., Butler, T., Lennings, C., Allerton, M., and Champion, U. |
| 2003 | 2003 NSW young people in custody health survey – key findings report View report. | NSW Department of Juvenile Justice NSW |