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Youth Justice
Your guide to cops and court in New South Wales
3rd edition
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Macquarie Legal Centre's Youth Justice: Your Guide to Cops and Court in New South Wales provides a practical guide for young people who come into contact with the police or the criminal justice system in NSW. Presented in a clear and jargon-free style, the book covers a broad range of topics including police interviews, police searches, the Young Offenders Act and youth justice conferences, bail, court processes, court outcomes, AVOs and dealing with unpaid fines.
Aside from helping young people understand their rights, this book is an essential resource for youth workers, youth advocates, social workers, counsellors, teachers or anyone else who works to support young people. With specially tailored sections on supporting young people through police interviews, youth justice conferences, lawyer interviews and court, Youth Justice enables workers to understand their role and suggests advocacy strategies in dealing with the police or courts.
Now in its third edition, Youth Justice has been updated and greatly expanded into a more comprehensive and detailed legal resource. There are new chapters on 'getting legal advice and assistance' and 'security guards', as well as expanded sections on court processes and outcomes for common offences. Recent changes to the law and legal processes have been accommodated with new material on the youth and adult drug courts, police sniffer dogs, 'drug house' legislation and other changes to police powers and court processes in NSW.
CONTENTS
Getting legal advice & assistance: A guide to legal services and dealing with lawyers
Why should I get legal advice?
Finding a lawyer: A guide to legal services in NSW
Lawyer interviews
Things to tell your lawyer
Acting as a support person in lawyer interviews
If you are not happy with your lawyer
Victims of crime
Support for victims
Reporting the crime to police
Victims and going to court
Victims and compensation
Apprehended Violence Orders
Apprehended Violence Orders
Applying for an AVO
If someone applies for an AVO against you
Dealing with police on the street
Police ask your name and address
Police question you on the street or at home
Police tell you to stop doing something or to move on
Other police powers in public places
Arrest and going to the police station
Warrants
The Children (Protection and Parental Responsibility) Act on the street
The cops have impounded my car!
Expected changes to police powers
Police searches
Police searches
Searching for knives and weapons
Police drug sniffer dogs
Searching houses and buildings
Expected changes to police powers to search
Security guards: what powers do they really have?
Powers of security guards
Citizen's arrests
Powers of security guards in privately owned places
Can a security guard take your photo?
Complaining about security guards
Police questioning
Police questioning
Police questioning of under 18s
The role of the adult support person in interviews with under 18s
Tasks for the advocate or support person in police interviews
At the police station
Your rights in police custody
Forensic procedures
Vulnerable people in police custody
How police deal with you for alleged offences
Complaints and cooperation: Working to improve police practices
Influencing your local police
Taking action against police
Complain to the Ombudsman
Young Offenders Act: Warnings, cautions and conferences
Warnings, cautions and conferences for under 18s
Youth justice conferences
At the conference
Role of support people at conferences
Conference outcomes
After the conference
Are conferences effective?
Bail
What is bail?
How is bail decided?
Bail conditions and sureties
Your responsibility for another person on bail
Changing bail decisions and conditions
Breaching bail
Going to court
Which court?
Going to court
In the courtroom
If you can't get to court
Read your police fact sheet
What to plead?
Pleading not guilty and going to hearing
References and court reports
Role of support people in court
Outcomes of court
Outcomes in the Children's Court
Outcomes in the Local Court
The Children's Court can send you to a conference
The adult Drug Court
The Youth Drug Court
Other diversionary programs
Background reports and pre-sentence reports
Being sentenced - getting a favourable penalty
Sentencing for drug offences
Sentencing for traffic offences
Non-association and place restriction orders
Outcomes in the District and Supreme Courts
If you have an intellectual disability or a mental illness
After court
If you miss court
Appeals
Convictions and criminal records
Bonds, probation and suspended sentences
Community service orders
Victims compensation restitution orders
Juvenile Detention Centres
Young adults in prison
Dealing with the Department of Juvenile Justice
Unpaid fines
Unpaid fines: What happens to you?
Unpaid fines: What can you do about it?
Contacts: A justice advocate's phone book
Words, words, words: A criminal justice jargon buster
REVIEWS
A book in its third edition, like this one, is a success. Lawyers wanting a quick guide, youth workers, legal studies’ teachers, police doing criminal justice courses, should all find it very, very useful. After all, it’s packed full of practical up-to-date information about many facets of our criminal justice system. Money well spent, no doubt about it....
The sub-title too, sells the work short. This book is about much more than cops and courts....This edition has new chapters on getting legal advice and assistance and security guards, as well as expanded sections on court processes and outcomes for common offences. Recent changes to the law and legal processes have also been included with new material on the youth and adult drug courts, police sniffer dogs, drug house legislation and other changes to police powers and court processes in NSW.
The brief case histories bring many of the topics to life, though they tend to do so in a uniformly ‘feel good’ way. I enjoyed reading these vignettes of success....
Law Society (NSW) Journal, Vol 42(8), (Sept 2004), 83
This is a book I wish I had the first time I got nabbed. I won’t go into the specifics, but for a youth going to court for the first time – this book is perfect.
The prospect of going to court can seem rather daunting to most. Youth Justice simplifies the big, bad world of cops, lawyers and judges, wrapping it all into a nice easy to read and detailed book which, co-incidentally, only comes in purple.
Youth Justice goes through and details the length of police officers’ authority and power in New South Wales. Whether it is to do with warrants, children on the street, impounding your car, and even expected changes to policing powers – it’s all there. Youth Justice gives a non-complicated run down on Apprended Violence Orders, services for victims for crime, dealing with lawyers, police searches and the powers of security guards.
The text helps to improve police practices as well as dedicating a whole chapter to how you can influence your local police station, taking action against police and making complaints to the Ombudsman (he sounds like a nice bloke).
Youth Justice does not stop there. Further reading explores the issues of bail, going to court, the outcomes of court including sentencing for drug and traffic offences as well as what to do if you have unpaid fines.
As quoted within the text: “The aim of this book is to demystify the system by explaining the law and legal processes in a clear and jargon-free style.” And I totally agree. Youth Justice is great for anyone who likes to live on the borderline of right and wrong (or is interested in juvenile law and practice). A definite buy if you have not been to court and are planning on a visit soon. An insightful read even for the law students (who supposedly know everything anyway).
Macquarie University Law Review, 2004
SUPPLEMENTS
Supplements and replacements for existing chapters
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Published October 2003
Publisher The Federation Press
Paperback/384pp
ISBN 9781862874794
Australian RRP $49.95
Direct Price $45.00
International Price $45.00
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