Reducing young women’s offending through improved service delivery

在澳大利亚和世界各地，年轻妇女与司法和福利机构的联系迅速增加，造成了一种代价高昂和有害的危机，特别是对年轻的土著妇女。进入这些系统的途径是有性别的；但这些系统的设计是为了满足年轻男性罪犯的需求。因此，该项目旨在发现如何更好地设计这些系统，以改善年轻女性的结果。该项目采用了一种新颖的方法，让年轻女性在五个英国国教最终用户（研究合作伙伴）和其他最终用户如何提高他们在福利和司法部门的服务提供方面发表意见，并成为最佳实践的典范。

Young women’s contact with justice and welfare agencies has increased rapidly across Australia and the world, creating a crisis that is costly and harmful, especially for young Indigenous women. Pathways into these systems are gendered; but the systems were designed to address the needs of young male offenders. This project therefore aims to discover how these systems could be better designed to improve outcomes for young women. The project uses a novel approach that gives young women a voice in how five Anglicare end-users (the research partners) and other end-users can enhance their service provision in the welfare and justice sectors and become models of best practice.