Update from NT
The Review of the Northern Territory Youth Justice System was delivered to the NT Attorney General in September 2011 and made public on 24 October 2011. The issue of Youth Justice has enjoyed particular focus in recent times with the NSW government commissioning a report in 2010, and the ACT government receiving its own review report in July 2011. As with the other reports, the NT review found the lack of coordinated youth focused policy and programs, involving both government and non-government sectors, had resulted in high rates of recidivism and young offenders being effectively treated as ‘little adults’.