A wide variety of problem-solving courts have been developed in the United States over the
past two decades and are now being adopted in countries around the world. These …

Since 1999, a number of Indigenous sentencing courts have been established in Australia
that use Indigenous community representatives to talk to a defendant about their offending …

Over the past three decades there have been widespread reforms across the common law
world to laws governing the prosecution and trial of sexual assault allegations in response to …

Mainstream sentencing courts do little to change the behavior of partner violence offenders,
let alone members of more socially marginal groups. Indigenous offenders face a court …

This article provides an overview of mental health courts and diversion programs operating
for offenders with mental illnesses in Australia. Methods of diversion that have been …

Abstract The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in
Australia commissioned this literature review to discern the potential benefits of using …

Over the past several decades in countries like Australia, the response to crime is moving in
two directions. One tack is innovative: it promises to change established forms of criminal …

Purpose This paper aims to examine the ways in which the criminal justice system has
evolved to accommodate mental illness. Mental health courts are one such alternative; these …

This chapter provides an overview of problem-solving courts currently in operation in
Australia and New Zealand. We explore how the evolution of the problem-solving courts has …

In response to the over‐representation of Australian Indigenous women in the criminal
justice system, culturally relevant and gender‐specific bail programs operate in several …