doi.org/10.1017/S1035077200006854
Article type: Original Research
1 January 1995
Volume 20 Issue 4
doi.org/10.1017/S1035077200006854
Article type: Original Research
1 January 1995
Volume 20 Issue 4
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In the shadows: The silent and silenced family in juvenile justice research
Richard Hil1
Anthony McMahon1
Affiliations
1 Social Work and Community Welfare, Townsville, James Cook University of Northern Queensland
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Richard Hil -
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Richard Hil1
Anthony McMahon1
Affiliations
1 Social Work and Community Welfare, Townsville, James Cook University of Northern Queensland
CITATION: Hil R., & McMahon A. (1995). In the shadows: The silent and silenced family in juvenile justice research. Children Australia, 20(4), 1051. doi.org/10.1017/S1035077200006854
Abstract
The construction of silence Concerns about juvenile crime and juvenile justice have attracted the most intense public interest in Australia over recent years. This has come about largely as a result of a deep sense of public concern over a ‘law and order crisis’ generated by ‘rising juvenile crime’, ‘crime waves’, ‘youth gangs’ and so forth, as well as from more general worries associated with the social problems of homelessness, teenage suicide and youth unemployment (Polk 1993, Presdee 1990, Cunneen &; White 1995).