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标题：The Emergence and Development of Specialist Courts: Lessons for Juvenile Justice from the History of the Children’s Court in South Australia?
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作者：Daniel King ; Andrew Day ; Paul Delfabbro 等
期刊名称：The Open Criminology Journal
电子版ISSN：1874-9178
出版年度：2011
卷号：4
页码：40-47
DOI：10.2174/1874917801104010040
出版社：Bentham Science Publishers Ltd
摘要：
To illustrate how specialist courts have developed to manage juvenile offenders, this paper provides an overview of the history and development of the youth court in one jurisdiction, South Australia. Drawing on interviews conducted with judicial officers, the paper seeks to highlight some of the changes that have taken place since the Court’s inception, as well as how the Court currently understands its role and positioning within the broader justice and welfare systems. Key discussion points of these interviews included the Youth Court’s guiding principles and how they impact on court procedures and responses to young people in the system, as well as the challenges that limit, or create difficulties for, the effective operation of the Youth Court. It is concluded that the Youth Court system attempts to balance both welfare and justice approaches to dealing with young people, but are sometimes hindered by inadequate procedural, structural and resource-related factors – some of which exist externally to the Youth Court itself.