Youth Studies Australia articles from March 2002

Youth Studies Australia archives from March 2002

The value of research internships.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... The great majority of research papers published in YSA are either by PhD candidates or researchers and academics who have already achieved that status. The leading paper in this issue, however, `Seeking the Vibe: The Melbourne rave scene', is...

Exam worries. (Attitudes & opinions).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... The Higher School Certificate topped the list of worries for Year 11 students, a Sydney Morning Herald survey found last year. The survey, conducted in August (so before the terrorist attacks on the United States), revealed that more than half...

Outlawing knives. (Bullying & violence).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... The Victorian Government has launched a campaign to educate young people about the danger of carrying knives and about new laws introducing stiff penalties for carrying banned weapons. During the 2000-01 financial year, more than 2,500 people...

Workplace bullying. (Bullying & violence).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... The South Australian State Employee Ombudsman receives more than 100 complaints a year from young workers about bullying and illegal practices in the fast-food industry. The Ombudsman, Gary Collis, said he was unable to investigate many of the...

School bullying. (Bullying & violence).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Every week, one in six Australian school children reports being bullied, according to Dr Ken Rigby, author of the recently published book Stop the Bullying: A Handbook for Schools. The forms bullying takes include hurtful language, acute...

Landmark court award. (Bullying & violence).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... A teenager found to have endured three years of bullying at his former school, St Patrick's College in Ballarat, was awarded $60,000 by a Victorian County Court jury. The jury found that the school had breached its duty of care (West...

NSW school violence. (Bullying & violence).(New South Wales)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... School violence in NSW peaked during Term 3 in 2001, with more than 100 students a day being suspended for violent behaviour. There were 10,722 students who received suspensions of between one and four days for pushing or shoving another child...

Violence against teachers. (Bullying & violence).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... The death of a Queensland teacher after being kicked in the chest by a student drew attention to the problems that teachers face with violent students. In 2000 and 2001, 451 NSW teachers were assaulted by students, with 42 needing medical...

The Queensland Education Department decided to register students who have been expelled from state schools. (Bullying & violence).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... The Queensland Education Department decided to register students who have been expelled from state schools. It was an attempt to deal with behaviour problems and inform schools of students with violent backgrounds. The Queensland...

Bring back the cane? (Bullying & violence).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Federal ALP backbencher Mark Latham advocated corporal punishment as a means of managing difficult boys who disrupt others' learning. In a mailout to his Werriwa (western Sydney) constituents, Mr Latham called for a new rigour in disciplining...

Children in care. (Child abuse & protection).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... A national report revealed a 17% increase in the notifications or claims of child abuse to state government human services departments of state governments in 1999-2000, compared with four years earlier. The report by the Australian...

Repetitive abuse. (Child abuse & protection).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... One in 10 children reported as abused or neglected in Australia are further abused within a year, a report has said. The Create Foundation, a national organisation promoting the safety and wellbeing of young people in care, published its second...

Child prostitution. (Child abuse & protection).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... A study by Child Wise, the Australian arm of the international group End Child Prostitution, Pornography and Trafficking, estimates that 4,000 children, some as young as 10, are selling sex for money and drugs in Australia. Bernadette...

Brisbane hotline. (Child abuse & protection).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... A telephone hotline for victims of sexual abuse has been set up by the Anglican Church in its Brisbane diocese. A recorded message refers people to a mobile phone number if they want to make a complaint against church workers, including staff...

Arson. (Crime & justice).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... In New South Wales, 17 of the 28 people arrested in connection with the summer bushfires were juveniles, one as young as nine. The premier, Bob Cart, promised to make teenage arsonists meet their victims and help in the clean-up. `it is...

Alternatives to court. (Crime & justice).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Since the introduction in New South Wales of an alternative justice program for young people, there has been a 38% fall in numbers appearing before the NSW Children's Court on criminal charges. The Young Offenders Act 1997 provides for a...

Legal centre for youth. (Crime & justice).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Victoria's first legal centre dedicated to young people was opened in October. The purpose of Youthlaw (which is based in central Melbourne) is to provide free legal advice and run cases for people under 25. The centre will also fund cases on...

Underage sex. (Crime & justice).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Changes to West Australia's age-of-consent laws were being introduced to strengthen safeguards for children under 16, said the WA Attorney-General, Jim McGinty. Under the new legislation, adults would no longer be able to use the excuse that...

Drugged rape victims. (Crime & justice).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... In 2000, about 22% of sexual assault victims in central and eastern Sydney who reported for counselling had been drugged, and about 80% were young women in their late teens. Mark Griffiths, a psychologist at the Eastern and Central Sydney...

Unpaid fines. (Crime & justice).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... In New South Wales, children as young as 10 can be fined for minor offences without their parents knowing. And because children often bury their heads in the sand instead of facing the penalty, debts can mount up as collection charges are added...

Deaf role models. (Disability).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... At Deakin University a Deaf Role Models for Deaf Students project was launched, including a web site and discussion space organised by Dr Linda Komesaroff, a lecturer in Deakin's school of social and cultural studies in education. So far,...

Stress-smoking link. (Drugs).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... The number of girls taking up smoking could be cut by half if girls were less stressed, according to a study from the Australian National University. Professor Don Byrne, an ANU psychologist, has been looking at possible reasons why more girls...

Drug-test kit lacks seal of approval. (Drugs).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... The Pharmacy Guild of Australia has declined to endorse Drugscreen products because the kits have posed ethical dilemmas for pharmacists and could damage relationships between parents and their children, according to the Guild's policy officer,...

Rising drug use. (Drugs).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Writing in the Australian Family Physician magazine, Dr Melissa Kang reported that about a quarter of deaths among Australians aged 12-24 were drug-related, coinciding with an increase in illicit drug use by young people. Dr Kang, who is...

Drugs-crime axis. (Drugs).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2002... The South Australian Office of Crime Statistics has released the report of a study by Aldis Putnin of about 900 young offenders aged 14-17 held in secure detention in the state. The study found that about 60% of the detainees were drug...

Teenage binge drinking. (Drugs).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Teenage binge drinking is increasing significantly, according to a new alcohol guidelines report from the National Health and Medical Research Council. The report reveals that in 1998, more than two-thirds of people who drank too much on a...

A survey of more than 7,000 students in 122 New South Wales schools found that about one-third of the respondents had drunk `hazardous' amounts of alcohol in the two weeks before the survey was conducted. (Drugs).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... * A survey of more than 7,000 students in 122 New South Wales schools found that about one-third of the respondents had drunk `hazardous' amounts of alcohol in the two weeks before the survey was conducted. More than eight in 10 children...

Drug education. (Drugs).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... A United States medical sociologist claimed that many drug-education programs in schools were unsuccessful and that funding should be redirected to after-school care programs. Speaking in Brisbane at a `Drugs: National Problems, Local...

Who's dropping out. (Education).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... According to a national study of almost 8,000 students, those who leave school before finishing Year 12 are likely to be male, have Australian-born parents, and come from a government school and low socioeconomic background. Most will also be...

Literacy comparisons. (Education).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Results from an OECD survey comparing the literacy of 15-year-olds from 32 countries suggest that Australian school students are among the most literate in the world -- on average. The relationship between socioeconomic background and...

University entrance. (Education).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... An Australian Council for Educational Research report, Tertiary Entrance Performance: The Role of Student Background and School Factors, has identified factors influencing young people's tertiary entrance scores. ACER conducted a five-year...

VET. (Employment).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... A survey of 70,000 TAFE students by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research revealed that TAFE students were still more likely to win a job than school-leavers who did not go on to further study. This was despite a small drop in...

The latest survey of employers' views of Vocational Education and Training graduates found that a third of the employers were dissatisfied, feeling that their needs were not being met by TAFE and other colleges. (Employment).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... * The latest survey of employers' views of Vocational Education and Training graduates found that a third of the employers were dissatisfied, feeling that their needs were not being met by TAFE and other colleges. The survey is conducted every...

Apprentices. (Employment).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Nearly all teenage apprentices have a regular job after they finish their training, according to a study by ACER. The study showed that 90% of apprentices aged 15-19 were employed within three months of finishing their training. The rate rose...

Single mothering. (Families).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... A study of over 4,000 families suggests that children brought up by mothers who remain single throughout the upbringing are no more likely to be depressed or anxious as teenagers than those from any other stable family. By contrast, marital...

Changing patterns. (Families).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has reported that one in five Australian families is now headed by a single parent, and such families have accounted for 92% of the growth in the number of families in Australia since 1990. In the...

Girls and IT. (Gender issues).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Only 12% of information technology jobs in industry across the board are held by women, says Di Thompson, a former chair of the Information Technology Council for South Australia. `It worries me,' she said, 'because females don't understand...

Salary gaps persist. (Gender issues).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Female graduands can leave the university with the same degree, enter the same profession, and still be paid less than their male peers. The long-running and respected surveys of graduate salaries conducted by the Graduate Careers Council of...

Asthma. (Health & safety).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... A biostatistical study conducted for the NSW Health Department and published in the NSW Public Health Bulletin shows that not only are more children in New South Wales getting asthma but the severity of the disease is rising dramatically. In...

Sunburn. (Health & safety).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Fashionable skimpy clothing may be contributing to sunburn and the risk of skin cancer among teenagers. A national survey of 25,000 high-school students in 1999 found cancer-aware behaviour, such as wearing a hat and staying out of the sun, to...

Horse-riding. (Health and safety).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... A study of children admitted to hospital with horse-related injuries found that five out of six who had severe head injuries died. Dr Andrew Holland, of the Children's Hospital in Westmead, Sydney, and Dr Gerard Roy, of the John Hunter...

Help for 31,000. (Housing & homelessness).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... The latest annual report from the Supported Accommodation Assistance Program says 31,000 young people aged 15-24 used its crisis accommodation and other services for the homeless in the 2000-01 year. Altogether, some 91,200 people had used...

Children without documents. (Immigration).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... In a feature article in the Australian Financial Review, Peter Mares, presenter of `Asia Pacific' on Radio Australia and author of Borderline: Australia's Treatment of Refugees and Asylum Seekers, raised the question `If not the Pacific...

Students' expenses. (Incomes and expenditures).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... The Australian Scholarship Group, a non-profit friendly society, surveyed 30 Australian universities and tertiary colleges to gain an estimate of what a tertiary education might now cost a typical student. The survey covered tuition fees,...

Children and the Internet. (Media).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... For a report called Internet@home researcher Kate Aisbett interviewed 1,203 adults across the country and consulted the members of 310 Internet-equipped households with children under 18. The survey's purpose was to find out how the Internet is...

Playing hard. (Risk-taking).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Researchers at La Trobe University's Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society have reported on a study of 400 young office-workers, hairdressers, building workers, sales assistants, tradespeople and young people working in the...

`Drugged driving OK'. (Risk-taking).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... A survey conducted for Australian Associated Motor Insurers Ltd found that 18% of young drivers aged under 25 believed driving after using drugs was safer than driving after drinking alcohol. Nine per cent thought that driving after taking `a...

Residential care in Victoria. (Services & welfare).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Audit of Children and Young People in Residential Care, a report commissioned by the Victorian community services minister, notes that among the abused children and adolescents now living in this type of care, 56 had at some time attempted...

Anglicare. (Services & welfare).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Anglicare Victoria, that state's biggest foster-care provider, has reported that it could not help 656 of the children who needed foster care in the year 2000-01. But the welfare agency did place 1,604 children throughout the state. This was a...

Teenage pregnancies. (Sexuality).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... According to a report published in The Medical Journal of Australia, the number of babies born to teenage mothers in Australia has more than halved since the 1970s. Figures from the peri-natal unit of the Australian Institute of Health and...

Coaches and body image. (Sport & leisure).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... In a plan outlined to a sports injury prevention conference in Sydney, Dr Jeni Saunders, a sports physician, said all sports-coaching courses would be overhauled to minimise negative impact on girls. She said that because new research shows...

Lure of TV. (Sport & leisure).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Research by Associate Professor Kevin Norton, of the University of South Australia, suggests that 10% of South Australian children spend more time watching television than attending school. Recently published data from a survey of more than...

Mixed picture. (Suicide).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2002... New youth-suicide statistics issued by the Australian Bureau of Statistics show that the suicide rate has declined across Australia's eastern states since 1997 but has increased or remained high in rural areas. While the annual numbers...

Seeking the vibe.
March 1, 2002... RAVE parties are events at which participants enter a fantasy world, which is dominated by loud techno music, and utterly different to their everyday lives. There is a paucity of academic studies of raves and, while many aspects are deserving...

Dancing through the revolution: the political and social meaning of the rave.
March 1, 2002... The process of writing about modern dance culture is fraught with "dangers" at many levels. First, the problem of representing physical movement in words; second, the challenge of producing a plausible theoretical interpretation of the...

The complexities of ethnic adolescent health: an Australian perspective.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Ethnic adolescent health is both complex and multifaceted. It is connected to and affected by family relations, the use of health services, peer relations, school influences, and issues emanating from the migration process. This paper reviews...

Friends, authority and health: an insight into young people's smoking habits and efforts to quit.
March 1, 2002... Drawing upon findings from an ethnographic investigation into the smoking lives of a cohort of teenagers, this paper argues a need for health educators to focus on smoking cessation by tapping into the dynamics of youth culture and the...

Young people and their quest for meaning.
March 1, 2002... Falling attendances and an ageing of congregations at Australia's mainstream religious institutions indicate young people's declining interest in traditional worship. However, this trend is balanced by young people's increased interest in...

Relationships and power: the critical core of youth partnership accountability work. (Programs And Practice).
March 1, 2002... Youth Partnership Accountability (YPA) is an approach to youth participation that is explicitly concerned with the issues of power, relationships and agendas in partnership work. As the name suggests, it focuses on the accountability of workers...

Willing & Able Mentoring Program. (Programs And Practice).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... STUDENTS who have a disability, despite being as talented as their peers, are often overlooked in the fierce competition for graduate positions due to negative self-concepts, community stereotypes, and negative beliefs or assumptions about...

National Youth Week 7-14 April 2002.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... With the support of Australia's brightest young talents including Ricky Ponting, Blair McDonough, Matthew Reilly and Leisl Jones, the third annual National Youth Week (NYW) will be staged from 7 - 14 April 2002. The Youth Bureau of the...

Get IT.(a service which provides current information on researchers' fields of interest)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... GET IT: current awareness services Current awareness services help researchers keep track of developments in their fields of interest, providing news alerts that in some cases can be tailored to match particular interests. This `selective...

Coping in a new world: the social and emotional wellbeing of young people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. (Reports).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... S. Selvamanickam, M. Zgryza & D. Gorman, Queensland Transcultural Mental Health Centre, 2001, ISBN 0646374303, 110 pp. `Even though I was very young I went through a lot of misery to last me a lifetime.' Just one of the voices which...

Structural determinants of youth drug use: ANCD research paper 2. (Reports).(Australian National Council on Drugs)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Prepared by the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre in collaboration with C.J. Spooner: Planning, Research and Evaluation, Australian National Council on Drugs, 2001, ISBN 1877018015, 79pp. Youth drug use and other problem behaviours...

GENERATE: Youth culture and migration history in Western Sydney. (Reports).
March 1, 2002... M. Butcher & M. Thomas, Institute for Cultural Research and Migration Heritage Centre, 2001, ISBN 1863418946, $16.50, 65pp. GENERATE is a research, training and exhibition project designed to realise the contemporary nature of migration...

Morbidity of Vietnam veterans: a study of the health of Australia's Vietnam veteran community. Supplementary report I. Suicide in Vietnam veterans' children. (Reports).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2000, ISBN 1 74024060X, free, 14pp. A validation study conducted by the Australian institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) in 1999 confirmed that Vietnam veterens' children have three times the...

A guide to developing and managing skate facilities in Queensland. (Reports).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Local Government Association of Queensland & Brisbane City Council, no ISBN, n.d., 146pp. Produced by the Brisbane City Council and the Local Government Association of Queensland this book is, as the name suggests, a complete manual on...

Young people and domestic violence: national research on young people's attitudes and experiences of domestic violence: full report. (Reports).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department, 2001, ISBN 0642209979, 201 pp. In 1997, the Federal Government announced an initiative, Partnerships Against Domestic Violence, to develop early intervention and prevention strategies to reduce...

Factors underlying indigenous arrest rates. (Reports).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... B. Hamilton Hunter, New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, 2001, ISBN 0731326342, $27.50, 38pp. A decade after the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody were handed down, Indigenous...

Children of parents affected by a mental illness: scoping project. (Reports).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Australian Infant, Child, Adolescent and Family Mental Health Association Ltd., ISBN 0642735182, 2001, 68pp. The Federal Department of Health and Aged Care commissioned the Australian Infant, Child, Adolescent and Family Mental Health...

Frustration. (Kits and resources).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Another Red Dirt Production, 2001. Frustration is a board game that was originally developed to assist psychology, social work and community service students to better understand `first hand' some of the issues impacting upon young people...

Advocating for Children: International Perspectives on Children's Rights. (Books).
March 1, 2002... A.B. Smith, M. Gollop, K. Marshall & K. Nairn (eds), University of Otago Press, 2000, ISBN 1877133906, RRP $NZ39.95 plus $NZ10.00 for postage outside New Zealand, 223pp. The Children's Issues Centre at the University of Otago in New...

Youth Works. (Books).
March 1, 2002... P. Slattery, Peter Slattery Australia, 2001, ISBN 0646412906, 278pp. This book is a guide about how to be a guide to young people. As such, the character of the book reflects the character of Peter Slattery's approach -- the tone of both...

What About the Boys?: Issues of Masculinity in Schools. (Books).
March 1, 2002... W. Martino & B. Meyenn (eds), Open University Press, 2001, ISBN 0335 206239 RRP$47.95, 242pp. The plight of boys has been portrayed as the education crisis of the nineties in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. However,...

Families, Crime and Juvenile Justice. (Books).
March 1, 2002... R. Hil & A. McMahon, Peter Lang Publishing Inc., 2001, ISBN 0820440574, RRP$US 29.95 plus $3.00 shipping and handling, 202pp. Over recent years, there has been considerable debate about the degree to which families are responsible for the...

Representing Children and Young People: a Lawyers Practice Guide. (Books).
March 1, 2002... L. Blackman, Victoria Law Foundation, 2002, ISBN 1876045191, RRP$45.00, 304pp. The Australian Law Reform Commission and Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission's report, Seen and Heard: Priority for children in the legal process,...

What hurts? The reported consequences of negative interactions with peers among Australian adolescent school children. (Bullying and violence).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Youth Studies Australia does not hold copies of the papers abstracted here. For readers who require further information we have included the addresses of the abstracted journals on page 63.Alternatively, check with the serials librarian in your...

A longitudinal study of the effects of a wilderness-enhanced program on behaviour-disordered adolescents. (Crime and justice).
March 1, 2002... D. Brand, Australian Journal of Outdoor Education, v.6, n.1, 2001, pp.40-56. To remedy the lack of long-term evaluation of wilderness-based programs for Australian youth-at-risk and juvenile delinquents, this study examined a two-year...

Preface to the JAR special issue: the drug abuse treatment outcomes studies for adolescents. (Drugs).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... B.W. Fletcher & C.E. Grella, Journal of Adolescent Research, v.16, n.6, 2001, pp.537-44. This issue of JAR is dedicated to articles about various aspects of the Drug Abuse Treatment Outcomes Studies for Adolescents (DATOS-A) -- a national,...

New times, new media: where to media education? (Education).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... C. Luke, Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy, n.101, 2001, pp.87-100. Computer education has been fervently embraced in Australian schools; however, media literacy, although formalised as part of the Australian...

Employment during adolescence is associated with depression, inferior relationships, lower grades, and smoking. (Employment).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... S. Largie, T. Field, M. Hernandez-Reif, C.E. Sanders & M. Diego, Adolescence, v. 36, n.142, 2001, pp. 395-401. Eighty-nine students (mean age 17.2) recruited from a South Florida high school filled out questionnaires that gathered...

Impact of parental divorce on willingness of young adults to provide care for parents in the future. (Family).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Y.D. Wells & T.M. Johnson, Journal of Family Studies, v.7, n.2, 2001, pp.160-70. The impact of parental divorce on filial obligation to care for parents as they age was studied by asking Australian undergraduate students to complete a...

On the social consequences (and social conscience) of `the foyer industry': a critical ethnography. (Homelessness).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... C. Allen, Journal of Youth Studies, v.4, n.4, 2001, pp.471-94. Foyers are a French concept adapted in Britain as a network of over 100 hostels throughout the country combining accommodation with job search advice and skills training. To...

The police and indigenous juveniles in Victoria. (Indigenous young people).(juvenile delinquency statistics)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... G. Gardiner, Alternative Law Journal, v.26, n.5, 2001, pp.248-53. Data obtained from the ABS Census data and from the Victoria Police were used to compare the number of Indigenous alleged offenders processed; arrest rates and...