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Aboriginal offenders	1.8, 2.7, 2.34-2.35, 10.5, 10.14, 10.30, 10.48, 11.11, 11.16, 11.41
Ageing and Disability Department, New South Wales	4.98, 9.7, 9.10, 9.16, 9.27, 9.38, 10.6, 10.11, 10.12-10.20, 10.22, 10.26, 10.27,10.30, 10.49-10.50, 11.3, 11.29, 11.40, 11.43
Apprehended Violence Orders	3.12, 4.20, 8.45-8.48
Attitudes to people with an intellectual disability
Generally	1.4, 2.13-2.16
Police attitudes	4.3-4.4
Bail
Bail hostels	4.78,11.43
Fitness - variation of bail	5.35-5.37
Police bail	4.72-4.78
Brain Injury	3.8-3.9, 3.23-3.26
Case management	10.38-10.50, 11.7
Child offenders see Juvenile offenders
Child witnesses	7.10, 7.15
Co-ordination between agencies
Co-ordination required	10.9-10.16, 10.21-10.22
Lack of co-ordination	10.1-10.8
Monitoring co-ordination	10.17-10.20
Community Services Commission	10.10, 10.22, 10.23-10.24, 11.29
Custody see Sentencing
Defence of mental illness/impairment
Common law (M’Naghten defence, insanity defence)	6.2, 6.5, 6.7, 6.23-6.27
Criminal Code (Cth)	6.3-6.4
Executive discretion	6.18-6.21
Indeterminate detention and limiting terms	6.28-6.36
Local Courts	6.46-6.49
Model Bill provisions	6.33, 6.49
Place of detention	6.22, 11.17-11.29
Review by the Mental Health Review Tribunal	6.17-6.18
Strict custody	6.14-6.15, 6.37-6.45
Supreme and District Courts	6.7-6.15
See also Forensic patient
Department of Community Services, New South Wales	4.20, 4.78, 8.48, 8.59, 8.61, 9.39, 10.4, 10.6-10.8, 10.11, 10.38-10.50, 11.20, 11.24, 11.27, 11.28, 11.36, 11.39-11.42, 11.43
Department of Corrective Services, New South Wales	9.20, 10.6, 10.25, 10.32, 10.41, 11.1, 11.4-11.16, 11.28
Diminished responsibility	1.16, 6.54
Diversion from the criminal justice system
Generally	2.38-2.43
Mental Health (Criminal Procedure) Act 1990 (NSW) s 32	5.76-5.82
Dock statement see Evidence
Education
Criminal justice personnel	9.6, 9.12
People with an intellectual disability and their carers	9.5, 9.7-9.11
Evidence
Closed-circuit television	7.10-7.11, 7.19-7.21
Competence	7.2-7.4
Pre-trial videorecording	7.18
Reliability	7.30-7.37
Screens	7.19
Special witnesses	7.10-7.21
Statement not subject to cross examination (dock/unsworn statement)	7.22-7.29
Warning to jury	7.21, 7.30-7.37
See also Support Person
Fitness to be tried
Appeals	5.60-5.65
Attorney General’s veto	5.51-5.55
Bail	5.35-5.37
Executive discretion	5.45-5.49
Expert reports	5.31-5.34
Generally	5.1-5.6
Hearing by judge alone	5.26-5.30
Limiting term	5.3, 5.16-5.17, 5.38-5.41
Local Courts	5.66-5.75
Model Bill provisions	5.19-5.20
Special hearing	5.3, 5.14-5.17, 5.20, 5.21, 5.26-5.30, 5.32, 5.34, 5.35-5.37, 5.38,5.42, 5.43-5.44, 5.53, 5.74
Supreme and District Courts	5.9-5.18
See also Forensic Patient
Forensic patient	5.5, 5.11-5.18, 5.23-5.24, 5.43, 5.45-5.49, 5.52-5.56, 5.60-5.65, 6.14, 6.17-6.22, 6.32
Gaol see Sentencing
Guardianship	9.31, 9.34-9.37
Human rights obligations	1.19-1.21
Identification of intellectual disability	2.4, 4.6, 4.9-4.10, 4.15, 4.26, 4.49-4.52, 9.20, 9.26, 9.30, 9.33, 10.5, 10.27, 10.32, 10.36
Intellectual disability, definitions of
Clinical definitions	3.6-3.7
Commission’s definition	3.11-3.22
Distinguished from brain injury	3.8-3.9, 3.23-3.26
Generally	3.2-3.7

Statutory definition	3.13
See also Identification of intellectual disability
Interpreters	7.8-7.9
Judicial Commission of New South Wales	9.22, 9.32-9.33
Judicial education	9.22, 9.32-9.33
Juvenile offenders	2.33, 10.21-10.22
Mental Health Review Tribunal see Defence of mental illness/impairment, Fitness to be tried
Mental illness
Confusion with intellectual disability	3.15, 4.3-4.4, 4.7, 5.24, 6.5-6.6,
Dual diagnosis	2.32, 2.36, 10.5, 10.14, 10.30
Mental Health (Criminal Procedure) Act 1990 (NSW), s 32-33	5.76-5.82
See also Defence of mental illness/impairment, Fitness to be tried
Non-custodial options see Sentencing
Offenders with an intellectual disability
Over-representation	2.5-2.19
Types of crimes	2.20-2.22
Parole	2.12, 5.39, 10.2, 10.44-10.47, 11.2, 11.26, 11.33-11.34, 11.35, 11.38-11.42
Police
Arrest	4.7, 4.12, 4.18, 4.23-4.26, 4.27-4.29, 4.30, 4.40
Adoption of statement	4.59-4.61
Code of Practice	4.40-4.48
Custody officers	4.23-4.26
Detention before charge	4.30-4.33
Electronic recording of interviews	4.62-4.67
Generally	4.1-4.11
Identification of intellectual disability	4.6, 4.9-4.10, 4.15, 4.26, 4.49-4.52, 10.36
Identification parades	4.68-4.71
Intellectual Disability Liaison Officers	10.35-10.37
Lawyer (at police interviews)	4.80-4.87
Liaison officers	10.35-10.37
Police caution	4.34-4.39, 4.55-4.58
Police Commissioner’s Instructions	4.12-4.20,
Police Powers Report (NSWLRC)	4.22, 4.25-4.26, 4.30, 4.32, 4.34, 4.40-4.41, 4.45, 4.64, 4.81, 4.86
Questioning	4.15-4.17, 4.20, 4.54
See also Support Person (Police Interviews), Bail (Police bail)
Prison see Sentencing
Probation see Sentencing
Probation and Parole Service, New South Wales	5.81, 8.53-8.54, 8.59, 8.61, 9.20, 10.6, 10.25, 11.35-11.37, 11.38-11.42
Research and statistics	2.4-2.30, 9.38-9.39
Sentencing
Attendance centres	11.30-11.32
Deterrence	8.49-8.50
Bonds	8.61, 11.30-11.32, 11.36
Community Service Orders	8.50-8.51, 11.30-11.32, 11.35-11.37
Generally	1.17, 8.49-8.61, 11.30-11.42
Home detention	11.30-11.32
Imprisonment (Gaol, prison)	8.49-8.50
(see also Pre-sentence reports and Special units and programs in prison)
Mitigation	8.49
Periodic detention	8.50, 11.30
Pre-sentence reports	8.57-8.61
Secure units outside prison	11.17-11.29
Special circumstances	8.49
Special units and programs in prison	11.4-11.16
Services
Disability services generally	1.20, 1.22-1.24, 1.27, 1.31, 2.4, 2.32, 3.8, 3.18, 8.2, 8.51, 8.59, 8.60, 9.2, 9.7, 9.10-9.12, 9.26, 9.30, 9.33, 10.1-10.50, 11.1-11.44
Lack/inadequacy of services	2.3, 2.11, 2.19, 2.33, 2.35, 2.36, 2.41, 4.78, 5.67, 5.80, 6.32, 8.48, 9.36-9.37, 9.39, 10.1-10.50, 11.1-11.44
Special Offenders Service	11.38-11.42
See also Department of Community Services, New South Wales, Sexual offences (Crimes Act 1900 (NSW) s 66F)
Sexual offences
Aggravated sexual assault	8.7-8.15
Capacity to consent	8.4-8.6
Crimes Act 1900 (NSW) s 66F	8.16-8.36
Support Person
In court	7.16-7.17
Legal interviews	4.109-4.113
Police interviews	4.88-4.108
Training about intellectual disability
Generally	9.6, 9.17-9.37
Audit	9.13-9.16
Unsworn statement see Evidence
Victims compensation	8.37-8.44
Victims with an intellectual disability
Over-representation	2.23-2.28
Types of crimes	2.29-2.30
Witnesses with an intellectual disability	2.31
Women with an intellectual disability	2.37
Young offenders see Juvenile offenders