Juvenile Justice

1+ day, 5+ min ago   (237+ words) Qatar Tribune QNA DohaQatar’s Public Prosecution, represented by the Criminal Studies Institute, has organised a specialised training course on juvenile justice in light of international standards, in cooperation with the Siracusa International Institute for Criminal Justice and Human Rights…...

7+ hour, 45+ min ago   (209+ words) Doha, Qatar: The Public Prosecution, represented by the Criminal Studies Institute, has organised a specialised training course on juvenile justice in light of international standards, in cooperation with the Siracusa International Institute for Criminal Justice and Human Rights in Italy....

19+ hour, 26+ min ago   (639+ words) The Queensland Law Society made a submission on the Youth Justice (Circuit Breaker) Amendment Bill 2026, which was passed on 17 September 2026 without amendment. Other Bills passed at the September sitting include the Criminal Code (Dangerous Driving) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill…...

20+ hour, 7+ min ago   (904+ words) Kate Fitz-Gibbon and Matt Tyler By the time “KH” (a pseudonym) was 16 years old, the state knew him as an offender. He had committed a string of serious crimes, including aggravated carjacking, false imprisonment, theft and assaults on youth justice…...

13+ hour, 4+ min ago   (849+ words) At a time when youth justice policy across Australia has taken an increasingly punitive turn, a federal Senate inquiry has laid out the evidence for a different path. It stopped short, however, of recommending the range of reforms needed. Released…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (395+ words) September 21, 2026 — 5:00am It took only a week after two mistaken identity gangland hits in as many days for the NSW government to introduce harsher penalties for child offenders linked to organised crime. And therein lies the problem. Marco Tapia, 23, and Joshua…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (304+ words) Close the youth prisons first. Invent the replacement later. That was California’s plan. Then the design changed. In 2020, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 823, which closed the Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ), and shifted California’s highest-risk, highest-need youth onto the…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (627+ words) Numerous new laws are taking effect this October across Maryland, many of which impose new restrictions, while others expand previously passed laws. One piece of legislation that has drawn the attention of many Marylanders is Senate Bill 111, which outlines new…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (433+ words) Nine years, 165 mentions in parliament, and a motion and now finally the KAP’s relocation sentencing policy has been adopted by the Queensland parliament, the KAP leader Robbie Katter has said. The KAP first took relocation sentencing to the 2017 State Election,…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (178+ words) In some of the happenings after dark yesterday, Labor’s flagged motion criticising the government for Friday’s credit rating downgrade and calling for the “true cost” of each Olympic venue was flipped on its head. Through the magic of the Crisafulli…...