TasCOSS Resources Library

TasCOSS strongly supports legislative and social reform to provide greater support for Tasmanians to receive community-based treatment and care. Many people come into contact with the criminal justice system as a result of substance use and misuse, and the expansion of alternative sentencing options — including therapeutic models such as…

There is a volume of evidence that demonstrates mandatory sentencing is not an effective deterrent and will do little to protect frontline workers from harm. Due to the insufficient evidence that mandatory or presumptive sentencing makes frontline workers safer, TasCOSS opposes the draft Bill and recommends it be withdrawn. Rather than…

TasCOSS acknowledges the legitimate objective of recognising the additional harm caused when offending is deliberately published or glorified online and understands the policy intent of the proposed amendment. For children and young people, the evidence consistently supports rehabilitation, diversion and addressing the underlying causes of offending ahead of increasingly punitive…