Detention on Remand

Imprisonment in Australia: The Remand Population

The Impact of Juvenile Detention on Recidivism

The optimal detention policy for juvenile delinquents presents a challenge to the criminal justice system, which must balance the well-being of the community with that of the juvenile. Detention is often used as a way to protect the community by preventing a juvenile from committing more crimes while awaiting adjudication of the juvenile’s current criminal offense. Detention may however adverse...

Sexually transmitted diseases in teenage girls from a remand home.

However, girls below the age of 21 years who have been arrested for prostitution can be placed in remand homes for various periods or till they are 21 years of age. In Kuala Lumpur they are detained in the Cheras Home for Rehabilitation of Women, about 10 miles from the city. On admission to the home, blood is usually taken for VORL serology at a nearby district hospital. The purpose of this st...

Detention before Trial

The injustice of needless pretrial detention has been the focus of much attention in the last few years. Recently the Institute on the Operation of Pretrial Release Projects and the 1963 National Conference on Bail and Criminal Justice have provided forums for the discussion of the effects of and alternatives to detention. Under the impetus of such forums and the pressure of jurisdictions seeki...

Immigration detention and health.

ike all rich nations, Australia has experienced an increase in people crossing its national borders without the documents authorising them to do so. Since 1992, Australia has had a policy of mandatory detention for these people. About a third of the people in immigration detention are asylum seekers who are requesting sanctuary under the 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of ...