Kate Crowe

Kate Crowe holds a longstanding commitment to improving interventions and safeguards for children and young people experiencing serious vulnerability. For the past 20 years Kate has worked in the Commonwealth and State Government, leading reforms in youth justice, alternative care (out-of-home care), and secure care.

Kate was awarded a 2022 Churchill Fellowship to study effective alternatives to secure care for high-risk children and young people in Scotland, the Netherlands, Canada, and Hawaii. In 2023, Kate was awarded a Creswick Fellowship to investigate the position and design of secure care when jurisdictions raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility in Scotland, Finland, and Iceland. She has recently been appointed an Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Her publications include:

• Crowe, K. (2016). Secure Welfare Services: Risk, Security and Rights of Vulnerable Young People in Victoria, Australia. Youth Justice, 16(3), 263-279. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473225416639396

• Crowe, K. (2024). Community-Based Alternatives to Secure Care for Seriously At-Risk Children and Young People: Learning from Scotland, The Netherlands, Canada and Hawaii. Youth, 4(3), 1168-1186. https://doi.org/10.3390/youth4030073

Kate is a member of the Group of International Researchers in Adolescent Forensic Research (GIRAF) and co-leads the ‘baby GIRAF’ sub-group on alternatives to secure care.