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040			_aAFVC
100			_aDouglas, Heather _94154
245			_aAdolescent family and dating violence and the criminal law response _cHeather Douglas and Tamara Walsh
260			_bSpringer, _c2022
500			_aJournal of Family Violence, 2022, First published online, 1 March 2022
520			_aThe criminal law response to adolescent family and dating violence is understudied in Australia. The aim of the present study was to examine the charges and sentences adolescents face when they perpetrate acts of violence against family members or intimate partners, and to better understand the personal circumstances of these adolescents, including whether they have been diagnosed with a mental illness, whether they have a criminal history and whether they have been subject to child protection interventions. We undertook a two stage study analyzing unpublished statistical data and case files held by the Youth Justice department in Queensland, Australia. We found that the most commonly charged offence was contravention of a family violence protection order in the context of adolescent dating violence. We found that many of the adolescents charged with adolescent family and dating violence related offences faced significant challenges and that Indigenous young people were significantly overrepresented in family violence related charges, especially for contraventions of a family violence protection order. Whilst criminal law responses are uncommon in parent–child and sibling violence contexts, family violence protection orders are over-utilized as a response to adolescent dating violence. Such orders when breached result in criminalization of the young person. Resources should to be (re)directed away from the criminal law system and into community-led, place-based initiatives that address the drivers of crime and incarceration. (Authors' abstract). Record #7570
650			_aADOLESCENTS _943
650			_aDATING VIOLENCE _93263
650			_aFAMILY VIOLENCE _9252
650		4	_9307 _aINDIGENOUS PEOPLES
650		4	_aIWI TAKETAKE _95589
650			_aINTERVENTION _9326
650			_aINTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE _9431
650		4	_977 _aPARENTAL ABUSE
650		4	_aPERPETRATORS _92644
650		4	_aPROTECTION ORDERS _9470
650		4	_9539 _aSIBLING ABUSE
650			_aYOUNG PEOPLE _9660
651		4	_aAUSTRALIA _92597
651			_aINTERNATIONAL _93624
700			_aWalsh, Tamara _910806
773	0		_tJournal of Family Violence, 2022, First published online, 1 March 2022
830			_aJournal of Family Violence _94619
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-022-00373-x _zDOI: 10.1007/s10896-022-00373-x (Open access)
942			_2ddc _cARTICLE _hpānui-april-2022