{"id":1805,"date":"2016-08-19T09:09:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T23:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/?p=1805"},"modified":"2016-08-19T09:09:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T23:09:10","slug":"in-the-news-professor-kerry-carrington-speaks-to-lateline-about-juvenile-detention-in-queensland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/2016\/08\/19\/in-the-news-professor-kerry-carrington-speaks-to-lateline-about-juvenile-detention-in-queensland\/","title":{"rendered":"In the News: Professor Kerry Carrington speaks to Lateline about Juvenile Detention in Queensland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2016\/08\/Kerry-lateline.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1806 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2016\/08\/Kerry-lateline-300x189.png\" alt=\"Kerry - lateline\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2016\/08\/Kerry-lateline-300x189.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2016\/08\/Kerry-lateline.png 398w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/staff.qut.edu.au\/staff\/carringk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Kerry Carrington<\/a> from the School of Justice, Faculty of Law, spoke to ABC&#8217;s Lateline program last night about the alarming human rights violations and mistreatment of young people in Queensland&#8217;s juvenile detention centres.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Heightened concerns about the\u00a0State&#8217;s juvenile justice system have emerged from the release of shocking CCTV footage of alleged mistreatment of young people in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2016-08-18\/images-of-alleged-mistreatment-cleveland-youth-detention-centre\/7758204\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Youth Detention Centre in Townsville.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Professor Carrington explains how the national trend of juvenile crime rates is decreasing, however the numbers of young people in juvenile detention, particularly in Queensland, is significantly increasing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">She states\u00a0that &#8220;We have an overuse of detention of children in Queensland&#8221; and &#8220;an excessive use of remand for children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Additionally, Professor Carrington highlights how &#8220;64% of the juvenile detention population are Indigenous&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">To watch the full interview, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/lateline\/content\/2016\/s4522570.htm\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Kerry Carrington from the School of Justice, Faculty of Law, spoke to ABC&#8217;s Lateline program last night about the alarming human rights violations and mistreatment of young people in Queensland&#8217;s juvenile detention centres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":372,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9719,3,9712],"tags":[11498,9780,15188,11594],"class_list":{"0":"post-1805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"category-justice-policy-issues","8":"category-news","9":"category-staff","10":"tag-interview","11":"tag-kerrycarrington","12":"tag-lateline","13":"tag-youthdetention"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1805"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1809,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions\/1809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}