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COMMUNITY JUSTICE FILES 24

Edited by T. Wing Lo and Dennis Sing-wing Wong, Guest Editors

and BJCJ Editorial Advisory Board members, Department of Applied

Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong

Asian Criminology Society

The Asian Criminology Society was formed in 2009 in Macau, China. The main missions of ACS include: (1) promoting the study of criminology and criminal justice across Asia; (2) enhancing co-operation in the fields of criminology and criminal justice by scholars and practitioners; (3) encouraging communication between criminologists and criminal justice practitioners in Asia and the world through publications and conferences; and (4) fostering training and research in criminology and criminal justice in institutions of learning, and in criminal justice agencies. For more information about ACS, please visit its official website at http://www.ntpu.edu.tw/college/e4/acs/home.php

A new longitudinal study - ‘Growing up in New Zealand’

‘Growing up in New Zealand’ is the latest longitudinal study in New Zealand in the 21st century. It was released by Auckland University in November 2010. Both pregnant women and their partners in the Auckland, Counties/ Manukau, and Waikato regions were recruited to participate in the study before their children were born. The study continuously follows the development of children until they are young adults. The study provides a comprehensive picture of a changing New Zealand in the 21st century. It is aimed towards gathering

information that can contribute to policy development for both current New Zealand children and their families, recently and in the future. It is also used to obviously understand the interaction of factors that influence the child’s outcomes, namely their growth, their health, their behaviours, as well as their cognitive development.

The full report can be downloaded from http://www.growingup.co.nz/media/12254/ growing%20up%20in%20new%20zealand%20before%20we%20are%20born%20nov%20 2010.pdf

A review of the common law in Hong Kong

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charged with indecent assault, rather than rape. The report explains that a number of other jurisdictions have been abolished, or never applied this common law presumption, including England and Wales, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and the Australian jurisdictions of the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria. As in Tasmania, this presumption can only be applied to a boy under 7. The report recommends that Hong Kong should abolish, to accept that a boy under 14 may be capable of sexual intercourse, and it concludes:

The effect of abolition would be that the offence of rape would no longer be singled out for special treatment: the rebuttable presumption of doli incapax would apply in respect of any criminal offence.

The full report is available at http://www.hkreform.gov.hk/en/docs/boy_14_e.pdf

Report on Juvenile Justice and Criminology Journal

launched in Pakistan

A report on a new Data Collection System for child victims and juvenile offenders in KPK, and two of the special issues of Pakistan Journal of Criminology, were launched at Peshawar on 30th December 2010. All the documents were produced by Pakistan Society of Criminology, an association of police, law-enforcement officials, researchers and civil society. The Report on Juvenile Justice Indicators is the first ever comprehensive and detailed document based on the newly designed data collection system in KPK Police. The Report will set a direction for data collection, which is now scientifically compiled and analysed, for nationwide data on child victims and juvenile offenders. It is pertinent to mention that such indicators were never compiled and analysed, which is a pre-requisite for the National Report on Children Rights submitted to the UN Sub-Committee on Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC).

Pakistan Society of Criminology also launched the two special issues of Pakistan Journal of Criminology. One of the special issues focuses on the Criminal Justice System of Pakistan, and is edited by a scholar from Norway, Dr. Paul Petzschmann. The issue comprises original research papers on the various aspects of police, prosecution, courts, prisons and probation system in Pakistan. Critical evaluation of the existing criminal justice institutions is given by the contributors, with practical suggestions based on empirical research and verifiable data.

The above brief report is available at http://www.pakistansocietyofcriminology.com/events. php

Recent development of restorative social work practices

in Hong Kong

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social work practices in Hong Kong. The authors conclude that ‘there would be real gains to be made through adopting and extending social work approaches with delinquents based on a restorative philosophy. Such schemes can reduce the involvement of young people in the juvenile justice system , provide increased support to young people and families and some redress to victims, reduce the probability of reoffending and result in cost savings to the juvenile justice system’.

The article can be downloaded from http://www.restorativejustice.org/RJOB/The%20 recent%20development%20of%20restorative%20social%20work%20practices%20in%20 Hong%20Kong.pdf/view

Police-referred restorative justice for juveniles in Australia

This research report was authored by Kelly Richard at the Australian Institute of Criminology; it was published in August 2010. It outlines the legislated restorative justice programmes for juveniles in each Australian state and territory, indicates the numbers and characteristics of juveniles who are referred by police to restorative conferences, as well as the offence types that are commonly referred to restorative measures. The study found that juveniles were referred to conferences primarily for property crimes and there were high proportions of indigenous juveniles in Australia that they were not being diverted via restorative measures. They were sent to court mostly, rather than to conferencing. The author stresses that the factors of offending history and offence type might influence the police to determine whether to refer a particular juvenile to a restorative justice.

The report can be downloaded from http://www.aic.gov.au/en/publications/current%20 series/tandi/381-400/tandi398.aspx

Statebuilding as Peacebuilding in Solomon Islands

The report, jointly prepared by John Braithwaite, Sinclair Dinnen, Matthew Allen, Valerie Braithwaite and Hilary Charlesworth, was published in November 2010. This volume of the Peacebuilding Compared Project examines the sources of the armed conflict and coup in the Solomon Islands before and after the turn of the millennium. The Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) has been an intensive peacekeeping operation, concentrating on building ‘core pillars’ of the modern state. It did not take adequate notice of a variety of shadow sources of power in the Solomon Islands, for example logging and business interests, which continue to undermine the state’s democratic foundations. At first, RAMSI’s statebuilding was neither very responsive to local voices, nor to root causes of the conflict, but it slowly changed tack to a more responsive form of peacebuilding. The craft of peace, as learned in the Solomon Islands, is about enabling spaces for dialogue that define where the mission should pull back to allow local actors to expand the horizons of their peacebuilding ambition.

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Review of Juvenile Homes in Singapore

The Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports of Singapore operates two Juvenile Homes for the care and rehabilitation of juvenile offenders, children beyond parental control, and those in need of care and protection. In recent years, cases that are admitted to the Homes have increased in complexity. Young offenders have come from smaller and middle- or high-income families, but commit more violent offences such as rioting and voluntarily causing hurt. The challenging nature of the cases increases the strain on operational manpower resources and the quality of service. By interviewing offenders, supervision staff, caseworkers, aftercare officers and senior management, the review focused on the security and safety of the institutions, operations and procedures in place, and rehabilitation and recidivism. It assessed the adequacy of manpower resources and standards of operational and safety practices, benchmarked the institutions against international standards in these respects, and proposed recommendations and estimated the resources required. The report of the study is available from the researcher, Professor T. Wing Lo (sstwl@cityu.edu.hk).

Review of the Juvenile Justice System in Macau

Recently, the Macau SAR government of China has passed new legislation to introduce new measures to rehabilitate young offenders or divert them from being processed in the court. The Macau SAR government commissioned City University of Hong Kong to evaluate whether the new measures would meet its designated objectives, to explore the satisfaction of young offenders towards the rehabilitation services, and to identify problems that might obstruct service delivery and collaboration among different government departments and welfare agencies. In order to obtain the views of service providers and service recipients, the study interviewed young offenders, judges, police officers, social workers, probation officers, staff in juvenile homes, and senior government officials. The study was completed in December 2010 and the full report is available from the researchers, Professor T. Wing Lo (sstwl@cityu.edu.hk) and Dr. Dennis Wong (ssswwong@cityu.edu.hk).

Forthcoming Events

The 16th World Congress of the International Society for Criminology

The 16th World Congress of the International Society for Criminology will be held from Friday 5th to Tuesday 9th August 2011 at Kobe International Conference Centre in Japan. Participants have opportunities to attend a number of plenary sessions which emphasize on a theme of Global Socio-Economic Crisis and Crime Control Policies: Regional and National Comparison. Generally, the congress discusses the current situation of crime and crime prevention strategies through comparative analysis of regions and nations.

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Conference: Meeting the needs of victims

This one-day conference will be hosted by the Australian Institute of Criminology, the NSW Department of Justice and Attorney General. It aims to explore the rights and needs of victims of crime, and learn from the international experience that can be applied in Australia. The keynote speakers include Dr. Jonathan Doak, Director of the Criminal Justice Research Group, Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University in the UK, and Professor Jane Ursel, Professor of Sociology, the University of Manitoba in Canada. The event will take place at the Mercure Hotel, Sydney, Australia, on 19th May 2011.

For further information, see http://www.aic.gov.au/events/aic%20upcoming%20 events/2011/victim.aspx

Asian Criminological Society Annual Conference: Asian Innovations in

Criminology and Criminal Justice

The conference will be organized between December 17 and 19, 2011 in Taipei, Taiwan.

Call for Papers

The 3rd annual ACS conference is organised by the Graduate Institute of Criminology, National Taipei University. ACS invites you to submit papers around the common theme ‘Asian Innovations in Criminology and Criminal Justice’. Abstract submission deadline: August 15, 2011. Full paper submission deadline: October 15, 2011. All abstracts and papers should be written in English. References, citations, and general style of manuscripts should follow the APA style. The abstract is limited to 200 words and should describe the purpose of the paper and where applicable, the methods and results. Please also include: (1) Title of the paper; (2) Name of the author(s); (3) Author Affiliation; (4) Brief bio of the author(s); and (5) Contact e-mail, tel. and address. Please email your abstracts/papers and any inquires regarding paper submission to programme co-chairs: Professor Ivan Y. Sun, Department of Sociology & Criminal Justice, University of Delaware (isun@udel.edu); Professor Yuning Wu, Department of Criminal Justice, Wayne State University (yuningwu@wayne.edu).

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