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Legislation Children's Court Act 1906
State of Victoria
The Children's Court Act 1906
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The Children's Court Act 1906 established a closed court where children's cases would be heard, established a clear protocol for dealing with children between the time they were apprehended and their court appearance, and formally recognised the importance of probation officers to the system. The Children's Court continued largely unaltered into the second half of the twentieth century.
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This Act was repealed by the Children's Court Act 1915 ( No. 2627).
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- Jaggs, Donella, Neglected and criminal: foundations of child welfare legislation in Victoria, Centre for Youth and Community Studies, Phillip Institute of Technology, Melbourne, 1986. Details
Newspaper Articles
- Wilkie, Douglas, 'They Judge Children, Cheating Children Article 4', The Sun News-Pictorial, 4 September 1953, p. 7. Details
Online Resources
- McCallum, David, 'Law and norm: justice administration and the human sciences in early juvenile justice in Victoria', Newcastle Law Review, vol. 7, no. 2, 2004, pp. 62-71, http://eprints.vu.edu.au/1521/2/Newcastle_Law_Review.doc_%28R%29.pdf. Details
- State of Victoria, 'Children's Court Act 1906: An Act to establish and regulate Children's Courts', in Victorian Historical Acts, Australasian Legal Information Institute, http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/hist_act/cca1906176/. Details
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Sources used to compile this entry: Jaggs, Donella, Neglected and criminal: foundations of child welfare legislation in Victoria, Centre for Youth and Community Studies, Phillip Institute of Technology, Melbourne, 1986; McCallum, David, 'Law and norm: justice administration and the human sciences in early juvenile justice in Victoria', Newcastle Law Review, vol. 7, no. 2, 2004, pp. 62-71, http://eprints.vu.edu.au/1521/2/Newcastle_Law_Review.doc_%28R%29.pdf.
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