Lorana Bartels

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a literature review in relation to intensive supervision orders (variously defined) in six countries, as follows:• Intensive Supervision Orders in New Zealand;• Conditional Sentences of Imprisonment in Canada;• Various forms of intensive supervision Probation in the United States; Intensive Alternatives to Custody in England/Wales, Intensive supervision with Electronic Monitoring in Sweden; and• Correctional Supervision in South Africa.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the evidence on offenders' oral competence and the measures taken in Australia and internationally to incorporate discussion of oral competence in a therapeutic jurisprudence framework.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine Australian legal responses to filicide in circumstances where mothers have killed their young children and consider the potential legal defences that may be raised where postnatal depression (PND) and other psychiatric disorders are present in cases of filicide: insanity/mental impairment, diminished responsibility/ substantial impairment by abnormality of mind, and infanticide.

TL;DR: The findings of recent research involving stakeholders in the Children's Court of Western Australia (CCWA) reveal that the needs of Aboriginal children and their families are not being properly addressed due to resource deficiencies, especially in rural and remote areas.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine three challenges associated with attempts at mainstreaming, namely: promoting equity, resource issues and the role of the judicial officer, and the need for cohesive policies on the future of problemoriented justice examined.