Look Before Leaping Into A Human Rights Quagmire

By JODIE O’LEARY, Assistant Professor of Law, Bond University and ROBYN LINCOLN, Assistant Professor Criminology, Bond University

Over the weekend reports emerged of comments made by the Queensland Attorney General Jarrod Bleije that the Queensland government was considering ‘naming and shaming’ repeat juvenile offenders.[1] Our local paper took up this issue on Monday 16 July with an article based around the opinion of a father whose son was a victim of a child offender who was named under the current provisions of the Youth Justice Act 1992 (Qld). [2]