This book explores criminal justice responses to Sudanese Australians, crime and victimization. Based on research in four major Queensland communities, it adopts a multi-faceted approach to capture the ‘voices’ of various interest groups. Challenging the concept that Sudanese Australian refugees are the criminal ‘other’ that primary definers such as the media or would have us believe, it also highlights the differently situated subgroups of Sudanese Australians with a focus on how individuals and groups develop and maintain a sense of belonging: not always successful and not always law abiding but by no means indicative of the reductive notion of the criminogenic refugee.
A useful and practical evaluation tool kit of value to local government, community service agencies, Victorian police and the Department of Justice who design, carry out and review community safety projects.
A longitudinal study of 2,378 Australian teenagers from their ninth year in school in 1980 until 1983 provided data on the significance of part-time employment in young people's transition from school to the world of work. Those studied were attending 26 different secondary schools in Australia's Victoria State in 1980 when data were first collected. Many had left school by 1981 and 1983 when subsequent data collections were made. Interviews were conducted in 1983 with 30 of those surveyed and with 48 other secondary students as well. The study considered part-time youth employment in the light of the potentially interrelated influences of family, school, and work, other economic and social forces, and the social and personal development of young people as well. The purpose was to generate information that could assist in youth policy development. Six basic areas were investigated: the nature of part-time work undertaken by youths; the characteristics of young part-time workers; the reasons young people work; and the impact of part-time work on career development, social and personal development, and school-to-work transition. The report discusses the study methodology, the study results, and implications of the findings. (PGD)
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