Problems, responses and evaluations: a conspectus of this report / Richard Harding -- The courts respond to the 'carnage on our roads' / Neil Morgan -- The Sentencing Act 1992: subverting criminal justice / Neil Morgan -- Selective incapacitation and the phantom of deterrence / Roderic Broadhurst and Nini Loh -- Trends in juvenile crime and justice, 1990-1992 / Roderic Broadhurst and Anna Ferrante -- Conditional release from indeterminate sentences: executive and judicial roles and practices / Neil Morgan -- A human rights perspective / Meredith Wilkie -- The impact of international standards upon the law making process / Richard Harding -- Opportunity costs: alternative strategies for the prevention and control of juvenile crime / Richard Harding -- Postscript: The Young Offenders Act 1994 and repeat serious offenders / Neil Morgan