Current projects
Use this page to view a list of all current research projects that have been approved by Youth Justice NSW.
Current research projects approved by Youth Justice NSW
Project title | Aim | Lead investigator | Institution |
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Collaborative design within a therapeutic Youth Justice unit | To develop knowledge about the experience, learning and impacts of collaboration between the design research team, Indigenous practice leader and Elders, therapeutic staff, youth officers, and Indigenous and non-Indigenous young people in the custodial Youth Justice context. | Dr. Rohan Lulham | University of Technology Sydney |
Examining changes over time in responses to the YPICHS – 2003, 2009 and 2015 | To examine the prevalence of mental illness in young people and adults in custody in NSW over time using the Young People in Custody Health Surveys and the Network Patient Health Survey. | Dr. Carey Marr | University of New South Wales |
Health and outcomes for young people who had participated in the YPICHS and YPOCOHS | To examine longer-term health and justice outcomes for young people who participated in the Young People in Custody Health Survey and Community Health Survey. | Professor Tony Butler | University of New South Wales |
How do Youth Justice caseworkers use the YLS/CMI-AA in practice? Enhancing understanding of caseworkers’ decision-making processes when completing risk assessment instruments | To investigate the decision-making processes undertaken by Youth Justice caseworkers when completing the Youth Level of Service/Case Management Inventory – Australian Adaption. | Helen Li (Honours Student) | University of New South Wales |
Improving thinking skills in young people in custody with mental illness using social cognitive and neurocognitive remediation therapy – a feasibility pilot study | To evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of the combined treatments of Cognitive Remediation Therapy and Social Cognitive Remediation Therapy in a youth custodial setting and explore the relationship between neurocognition, social cognition and functional outcomes. | Rene Jones (PhD student) | Justice Health & Forensic Mental Health Network |
Investigating recidivism among Australian justice-involved youth | To examine the validity of the Inventory of Callous Unemotional Traits (ICU) and test the ICU's ability to predict anti-social behavioural outcomes using Young People in Custody Health Survey data. | Professor Eva Kimonis | University of New South Wales |
Name, narrate, navigate – a domestic violence intervention | To evaluate a six-week domestic violence group intervention for young offenders in the Hunter New England Region. | Dr. Tamara Blakemore | University of Newcastle |
Positive pathways for vulnerable adolescents – the role of a life management program approach | To examine the short and longer-term outcomes and pathways of young people who participate in the Ted Noffs’ Program for Adolescent Life Management (PALM). | A/Professor Sally Nathan | University of New South Wales |
Promoting the mental health of Indigenous children – systems-level integration of pathways of care | To conceptualise, design, implement and evaluate the effectiveness of systems integration with the objective of supporting and improving the mental health and wellbeing of Indigenous school-aged children and youth. | Dr. Jayna McCalman | Central Queensland University |
Reducing young women's offending through improved service delivery – Young Women's Voices project | To determine how Indigenous and non-Indigenous young women in contact with the Youth Justice ecosystem experience systems that were historically developed for men and to determine how these ecosystems could better support Indigenous and non-Indigenous young women. | A/Professor Kelly Richards | Queensland University of Technology |
Towards an effective practice model for youth detention in NSW | To determine the relationship between the implementation of a best practice model (Core Effective Practice Skills) in NSW Youth Justice Centres and the outcomes for staff and young people in that Centre. | Dr. Phillipa Evans and Professor Chris Trotter | University of New South Wales and Monash University |
Youth Justice NSW oral history project – pilot study | To inform the development of an 'oral history project' by piloting and refining interview questions relating to the scope of the project, identifying potential issues, challenges and key areas to explore further. | A/Prof Garner Clancey and Dr Jed Evans | University of Sydney |