Source: Sydney Morning Herald

MOST maltreated children do not go on to become criminals but childhood abuse or neglect increases the chances a person will offend - and some forms of maltreatment are more likely to create criminals than others.

Landmark research into juvenile crime by Griffith University researchers analysed all child protection and crime data collected in Queensland for children born in 1983, 1984 and 1990.

They found that more than one in four maltreated children went on to offend, compared with one in six children who had not had contact with the child protection system. The rate was double for indigenous males - more than 50 per cent of those abused or neglected went on to commit crimes.

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Vanessa Kennedy and Netzach Goren of the Centre for Youth Drug Studies at the Australian Drug Foundation recently published a paper that explores the types of prevention programs that practitioners in the prevention sector believe are effective with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities. Other areas of interest were the prevalence of substance use in CLD communities, obstacles to prevention work and the extent to which the evidence-base is used in the design of prevention initiatives.

The paper is available online at DrugInfo's website: Issues Paper 1 (PDF 975KB).

Source: DrugInfo Clearinghouse. 

"Lighting the path - reflections on counselling, young women and sexual assault" explores feminist counselling practice with young women who have experienced sexual violence. It is written by 22 grassroots sexual assault counsellors from across Australia.

The book has recently been launched by Zig Zag Young Women's Resource Centre.