Evidence Based Policy and Practice in Youth Justice

Anna Stewart Professor Anna Stewart is a former Head, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University and founder and Program Leader of Justice Modelling at Griffith. In 2007-2008, she was the Deputy Dean (Learning and Teaching) in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Key to her research is the reuse of government administrative data and she has examined the links between child protection, youth justice and the adult criminal justice system; system responses to youth offending and domestic violence; management of risk; effectiveness of diversionary responses and system modelling. Professor Stewart has published over 50 peer-reviewed publications, government reports and non peer reviewed publications. She has been involved in partnerships that have obtained more than $3.6 million dollars in National Competitive Funding, consultancies and other government research funding. A focus of Professor Stewart's work is building the relevant partnerships to strengthen the integration of key research findings into legislative policy and practice development. Troy Allard Dr Troy Allard is a Senior Research Fellow within the Key Centre for Ethics Law Justice and Governance at Griffith University. He received his PhD from Griffith University in 2005. Since then, he has been Chief Investigator on five national competitive research projects and 11 consultancy projects, totalling in excess of $1m. He has published in the areas of youth justice, Indigenous justice and economic analyses. Outputs include 12 refereed journal articles, five book chapters and 16 reports for government or funding bodies. He has also delivered 16 presentations to practitioners and academic audiences. Susan Dennison Susan Dennison is an Associate Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University. Her research sits within a criminology and human development framework, with a focus on social justice issues and the importance of using evidence-based research to inform policy change and prevent crime. She is the recipient of more than $1.6M in national competitive research grants and consultancies on the topics of child maltreatment and juvenile offending, juvenile offending trajectories, and the effect of parental incarceration on the developmental outcomes of children. Associate Professor Dennison has also written 28 scholarly articles, chapters and monographs on stalking, child maltreatment, juvenile offending, and applications of psychology to law. In 2009 she was one of only 200 researchers Australia-wide to receive a four-year ARC Future Fellowship. Her Fellowship addresses the critical question of whether parental incarceration substantially contributes to poor developmental outcomes for children, over and above parental criminality and other existing risk factors.

Evidence Based Policy and Practice in Youth Justice - An Overview
Anna Stewart, Susan Dennison and Troy Allard
Understanding the Youth Justice System
April Chrzanowski and Rebecca Wallis
Indigenous Young People and the Justice System: Establishing an Evidence Base
Troy Allard
Developmental and Life Course Criminology: Theories, Research and Policy Implications
Susan M Dennison
Crime Prone Communities
Don Weatherburn
Preventing the Onset of Offending
Kate Freiberg and Ross Homel
Situational Approaches to Juvenile Justice
Michael Townsley
Assessing Risk of Reoffending
Carleen M Thompson and Anna Stewart
Preventing Reoffending: Rehabilitative Programs and Interventions
James Ogilvie and Troy Allard
Responding to Offending: Youth Justice System Responses
Simon Little and Troy Allard
Establishing an Evidence Base: Program Evaluation
Mathew Manning
Establishing an Evidence Base - Economic Analysis
Troy Allard and Matthew Manning
Establishing an Evidence Base: Transforming Administrative Data into Evidence.
Anna Stewart
From Evidence to Policy and Practice in Youth Justice
Janet Ransley