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Youth justice systems increasingly punitive and cruel, research listens to

Youth justice systems increasingly punitive and cruel, research listens to

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If vulnerable children of the first nations with complex trauma continue to be punished more and more hard, they are much more likely to continue on a criminal path, he has heard an investigation of the Senate.

On Monday, the wife of Rérente Luritja Catherine Liddle, executive director of SNAICC – national voice for our children, told the Senate investigation into the youth justice of Australia and the imprisonment system that indigenous children are eliminated from their families, communities and cultures and are placed in child protection systems in disproportionately high rates.

“A lot of our children in child justice systems have had traumatic experiences or are crossed children: these are children in the youth justice system who have also been in child protection systems,” he said.
In 2022-23, two thirds of children in children’s justice systems had been in child protection systems in the previous 10 years, with the children of the first nations 26 times more likely than non-indigenous children to be among these children Crusaders
“They are the most vulnerable children,” Liddle said.
“When children are separated from their families, communities and culture, the risk of adverse results for their health, development and well -being increases.
“However, instead of knowing them with informed supports of trauma and therapeutic attention, our systems are increasingly reacting in more and more cruel punitive ways.

“I often think for myself if we would bring these things or not if we were the ones who had to sit in a chair with restrictions with a saliva hood on our head for a long period of time.”

The defenders of children from all over Australia have accused states and territories of not protecting the rights of vulnerable children and urges the federal government to intervene.
Wirdi Tony Mcavoy SC’s lawyer chairs the Committee on Indigenous Legal Affairs of the Australian Law Council and was a main lawyer who helped the Royal Commission to the protection and detention of children in the northern territory.
Mcavoy told the Senate investigation that Commonwealth is now in a position in which states and territories seem to be International Human Rights obligations of Australia.
“It seems to me that, unless there is some action of the Commonwealth, which will continue to be the case,” he said.

“Therefore, it’s not about whether Commonwealth should act; it is what it should do.”

Mcavoy pointed out that the federal government has a variety of legislative, political and financing options if it is about improving youth justice.
“It cannot simply be to put a different curite at the end of the tail, after the wounds have been created,” he said.
“Everyone here, all who have appeared before this investigation, have given tests and have made presentations and have gone through this many times and said the same: we know that it has to be based on the community, which has to be oriented to the family.
“Unless there is some intervention from the Commonwealth, nothing is going to change.”
All the commissioners, tutors and defenders of the children of Australia spoke in the investigation of the Senate, including the Queensland family and the Children’s commissioner Natalie Lewis, a woman from Gamileaay.

“There will be a lot of content that circulates on the important presentations made today, but I want to focus on what was remarkably absent: the direct participation of the young aboriginals and islanders of the Strait of Torres,” said Lewis commissioner on social networks after the audience of Monday, together with the audience on Monday, along with a video of the ERIC Indigenous Youth Parliament of ERIC of 2024.

“Young people offer information and perspectives that are often hidden in the blind points of decision makers and” experts in the field. ”
“They are often more affected by the results of processes like this, so they must be part of determining destiny and shapeing the path to get there …

“I hope that, as research progresses, space for the significant participation of children and young people is created.”

The National Children’s Commissioner, Anne Hollow, said that criminalizing young people with complex or unattered needs makes it more likely to commit more serious crimes.
“We all agree that states and territories are failing when it comes to protecting the rights of children in Australia and it is time for the federal government to try and show some leadership,” he said, also urging the Commonwealth to implement her recommendations’‘Report, published last year.
“The most chilling was where children had no hope,” he told research.

“They had lost all hope of anything other than progress to the adult jail.”

Mrs. Liddle explained to the investigation that aboriginal and island children of the Strait of Torres are some of the most marginalized and disadvantaged in Australia.
“Many of our children fight with complex structural determinants and thirds that drive their overrepresentation in criminal justice systems,” he said.
“Many children who know the justice system are the first victims: victims of poverty and daily systemic racism, trauma and abuse stories …
“It makes it difficult to prosper in their education and work, it makes it difficult to find safe and safe homes, undermines its prosocial activities such as sport and, ultimately, it can lead them to make mistakes and break the law.

“Changes only in the justice system cannot change these conditions, any response that does not aim to address the structural and socio -economic root causes, instead of crime symptoms, it is sure that it will fail.”

The defenders also remembered those of Canberra that in almost all jurisdiction the age of criminal responsibility is only ten years of age, instead of the 14 of the United Nations.
That means that children up to ten years can be considered criminally responsible for their actions and imprisoned.
“That is terrible,” said Jodie Griffiths-Cook, commissioner of Act Public Defenders and Commissioner for Children and Youth.

The children’s commissioner of Western Australia, Jacqueline McGowan-Jones, said the entire system needed to change.

“There is definitely a sense of uselessness when, as a society, we are not overwhelmed by pain and anger by children who die while they are imprisoned,” he said.
A spokesman for Federal Attorney Mark Dreyfus said the government was working to divert children at risk of the criminal justice system and had committed $ 99 million to establish the National Justice Restrsion Program.
“While state and territorial governments are main responsible for youth justice systems, Commonwealth undertakes to show leadership in this important issue,” he said.
Last week, the Productivity Commission revealed that more than $ 1.5 billion were spent on youth justice throughout Australia last year.

The report of the Commission on government services also revealed that almost three quarters of young people from 10 to 13 years in detention were the first nations.

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