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An Australian Residential Youth Training Centre: Population Study

An Australian Residential Youth Training Centre: Population Study AUST & NZ JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY (March 1976) 9 (49-54) 49 AN AUSTRALIAN RESIDENTIAL YOUTH TRAINING CENTRE: POPULATION STUDY E J D Ogden 0 and D J de L Hornet Introduction The Turana Youth Training Centre is a centrally located residential centre for male adolescent offenders aged 14-21 years, administered by the Victorian Social Welfare Department. It provides remand facilities for the Children's Court Jurisdiction (14-17 years), classification services for both the Children's Court and Magistrates' Court (17-21 years), and training facilities for wards of the State (14-17 years). . The institutional complex has eleven separate sections varying in their security from open units to maximum security. The programme provided for the inmates includes a wide range of educational facilities, trade training, community work and work release. The population of the centre varies at anyone time from 200 to 320 youths. There is a need for centres such as this, with their complex organisation and changing role in society, to identify the nature of their population. To date this need has not been met at .Turana. In this paper a start is made by presenting the results of a retrospective survey of the classification service, in which a sample http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology SAGE

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0004-8658
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Abstract

AUST & NZ JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY (March 1976) 9 (49-54) 49 AN AUSTRALIAN RESIDENTIAL YOUTH TRAINING CENTRE: POPULATION STUDY E J D Ogden 0 and D J de L Hornet Introduction The Turana Youth Training Centre is a centrally located residential centre for male adolescent offenders aged 14-21 years, administered by the Victorian Social Welfare Department. It provides remand facilities for the Children's Court Jurisdiction (14-17 years), classification services for both the Children's Court and Magistrates' Court (17-21 years), and training facilities for wards of the State (14-17 years). . The institutional complex has eleven separate sections varying in their security from open units to maximum security. The programme provided for the inmates includes a wide range of educational facilities, trade training, community work and work release. The population of the centre varies at anyone time from 200 to 320 youths. There is a need for centres such as this, with their complex organisation and changing role in society, to identify the nature of their population. To date this need has not been met at .Turana. In this paper a start is made by presenting the results of a retrospective survey of the classification service, in which a sample

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Australian & New Zealand Journal of CriminologySAGE

Published: Mar 1, 1976

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