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Report 80 (1996) - People With an Intellectual Disability and the Criminal Justice System

Index (Text only)


Aboriginal offenders

Paragraph Numbers: 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

Paragraph Numbers: 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

Paragraph Numbers: 3.12, 4.20, 8.45-8.48

Attitudes to people with an intellectual disability

Generally - Paragraph Numbers: 1.4, 2.13-2.16

Police attitudes - Paragraph Numbers: 4.3-4.4

Bail

Bail hostels - Paragraph Numbers: 4.78,11.43

Fitness - variation of bail - Paragraph Numbers: 5.35-5.37

Police bail - Paragraph Numbers: 4.72-4.78

Brain Injury

Paragraph Numbers: 3.8-3.9, 3.23-3.26

Case management

Paragraph Numbers: 10.38-10.50, 11.7

Child offenders see Juvenile offenders

Child witnesses

Paragraph Numbers: 7.10, 7.15

Co-ordination between agencies

Co-ordination required - Paragraph Numbers: 10.9-10.16, 10.21-10.22

Lack of co-ordination - Paragraph Numbers: 10.1-10.8

Monitoring co-ordination - Paragraph Numbers: 10.17-10.20

Community Services Commission

Paragraph Numbers: 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) - Paragraph Numbers: 6.2, 6.5, 6.7, 6.23-6.27

Criminal Code (Cth) - Paragraph Numbers: 6.3-6.4

Executive discretion - Paragraph Numbers: 6.18-6.21

Indeterminate detention and limiting terms - Paragraph Numbers: 6.28-6.36

Local Courts - Paragraph Numbers: 6.46-6.49

Model Bill provisions - Paragraph Numbers: 6.33, 6.49

Place of detention - Paragraph Numbers: 6.22, 11.17-11.29

Review by the Mental Health Review Tribunal - Paragraph Numbers: 6.17-6.18

Strict custody - Paragraph Numbers: 6.14-6.15, 6.37-6.45

Supreme and District Courts - Paragraph Numbers: 6.7-6.15

See also Forensic patient

Department of Community Services, New South Wales

Paragraph Numbers: 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

Paragraph Numbers: 9.20, 10.6, 10.25, 10.32, 10.41, 11.1, 11.4-11.16, 11.28

Diminished responsibility

Paragraph Numbers: 1.16, 6.54

Diversion from the criminal justice system

Generally - Paragraph Numbers: 2.38-2.43

Mental Health (Criminal Procedure) Act 1990 (NSW) s 32 - Paragraph Numbers: 5.76-5.82

Dock statement see Evidence

Education

Criminal justice personnel - Paragraph Numbers: 9.6, 9.12

People with an intellectual disability and their carers - Paragraph Numbers: 9.5, 9.7-9.11

Evidence

Closed-circuit television - Paragraph Numbers: 7.10-7.11, 7.19-7.21

Competence - Paragraph Numbers: 7.2-7.4

Pre-trial videorecording - Paragraph Numbers: 7.18

Reliability - Paragraph Numbers: 7.30-7.37

Screens - Paragraph Numbers: 7.19

Special witnesses - Paragraph Numbers: 7.10-7.21

Statement not subject to cross examination (dock/unsworn statement) - Paragraph Numbers: 7.22-7.29

Warning to jury - Paragraph Numbers: 7.21, 7.30-7.37

See also Support Person

Fitness to be tried

Appeals - Paragraph Numbers: 5.60-5.65

Attorney General’s veto - Paragraph Numbers: 5.51-5.55

Bail - Paragraph Numbers: 5.35-5.37

Executive discretion - Paragraph Numbers: 5.45-5.49

Expert reports - Paragraph Numbers: 5.31-5.34

Generally - Paragraph Numbers: 5.1-5.6

Hearing by judge alone - Paragraph Numbers: 5.26-5.30

Limiting term - Paragraph Numbers: 5.3, 5.16-5.17, 5.38-5.41

Local Courts - Paragraph Numbers: 5.66-5.75

Model Bill provisions - Paragraph Numbers: 5.19-5.20

Special hearing - Paragraph Numbers: 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 - Paragraph Numbers: 5.9-5.18

See also Forensic Patient

Forensic patient

Paragraph Numbers: 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

Paragraph Numbers: 9.31, 9.34-9.37

Human rights obligations

Paragraph Numbers: 1.19-1.21

Identification of intellectual disability

Paragraph Numbers: 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 - Paragraph Numbers: 3.6-3.7

Commission’s definition - Paragraph Numbers: 3.11-3.22

Distinguished from brain injury - Paragraph Numbers: 3.8-3.9, 3.23-3.26

Generally - Paragraph Numbers: 3.2-3.7

Statutory definition - Paragraph Numbers: 3.13

See also Identification of intellectual disability

Interpreters

Paragraph Numbers: 7.8-7.9

Judicial Commission of New South Wales

Paragraph Numbers: 9.22, 9.32-9.33

Judicial education

Paragraph Numbers: 9.22, 9.32-9.33

Juvenile offenders

Paragraph Numbers: 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 - Paragraph Numbers: 3.15, 4.3-4.4, 4.7, 5.24, 6.5-6.6,

Dual diagnosis - Paragraph Numbers: 2.32, 2.36, 10.5, 10.14, 10.30

Mental Health (Criminal Procedure) Act 1990 (NSW), s 32-33 - Paragraph Numbers: 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 - Paragraph Numbers: 2.5-2.19

Types of crimes - Paragraph Numbers: 2.20-2.22

Parole

Paragraph Numbers: 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 - Paragraph Numbers: 4.7, 4.12, 4.18, 4.23-4.26, 4.27-4.29, 4.30, 4.40

Adoption of statement - Paragraph Numbers: 4.59-4.61

Code of Practice - Paragraph Numbers: 4.40-4.48

Custody officers - Paragraph Numbers: 4.23-4.26

Detention before charge - Paragraph Numbers: 4.30-4.33

Electronic recording of interviews - Paragraph Numbers: 4.62-4.67

Generally - Paragraph Numbers: 4.1-4.11

Identification of intellectual disability - Paragraph Numbers: 4.6, 4.9-4.10, 4.15, 4.26, 4.49-4.52, 10.36

Identification parades - Paragraph Numbers: 4.68-4.71

Intellectual Disability Liaison Officers - Paragraph Numbers: 10.35-10.37

Lawyer (at police interviews) - Paragraph Numbers: 4.80-4.87

Liaison officers - Paragraph Numbers: 10.35-10.37

Police caution - Paragraph Numbers: 4.34-4.39, 4.55-4.58

Police Commissioner’s Instructions - Paragraph Numbers: 4.12-4.20,

Police Powers Report (NSWLRC) - Paragraph Numbers: 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 - Paragraph Numbers: 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

Paragraph Numbers: 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

Paragraph Numbers: 2.4-2.30, 9.38-9.39

Sentencing

Attendance centres - Paragraph Numbers: 11.30-11.32

Deterrence - Paragraph Numbers: 8.49-8.50

Bonds - Paragraph Numbers: 8.61, 11.30-11.32, 11.36

Community Service Orders - Paragraph Numbers: 8.50-8.51, 11.30-11.32, 11.35-11.37

Generally - Paragraph Numbers: 1.17, 8.49-8.61, 11.30-11.42

Home detention - Paragraph Numbers: 11.30-11.32

Imprisonment (Gaol, prison) - Paragraph Numbers: 8.49-8.50

(see also Pre-sentence reports and Special units and programs in prison) -

Mitigation - Paragraph Numbers: 8.49

Periodic detention - Paragraph Numbers: 8.50, 11.30

Pre-sentence reports - Paragraph Numbers: 8.57-8.61

Secure units outside prison - Paragraph Numbers: 11.17-11.29

Special circumstances - Paragraph Numbers: 8.49

Special units and programs in prison - Paragraph Numbers: 11.4-11.16

Services

Disability services generally - Paragraph Numbers: 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 - Paragraph Numbers: 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 - Paragraph Numbers: 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 - Paragraph Numbers: 8.7-8.15

Capacity to consent - Paragraph Numbers: 8.4-8.6

Crimes Act 1900 (NSW) s 66F - Paragraph Numbers: 8.16-8.36

Support Person

In court - Paragraph Numbers: 7.16-7.17

Legal interviews - Paragraph Numbers: 4.109-4.113

Police interviews - Paragraph Numbers: 4.88-4.108

Training about intellectual disability

Generally - Paragraph Numbers: 9.6, 9.17-9.37

Audit - Paragraph Numbers: 9.13-9.16

Unsworn statement see Evidence

Victims compensation

Paragraph Numbers: 8.37-8.44

Victims with an intellectual disability

Over-representation - Paragraph Numbers: 2.23-2.28

Types of crimes - Paragraph Numbers: 2.29-2.30

Witnesses with an intellectual disability

Paragraph Numbers: 2.31

Women with an intellectual disability

Paragraph Numbers: 2.37

Young offenders see Juvenile offenders

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