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Sep, 2014
Paternal imprisonment creates a significant risk for the intergenerational transmission of offending but there is little research on the mechanisms underpinning this risk. Culturally relevant research is also essential in…
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2008
The Magistrates Early Referral into Treatment (MERIT) program is a New South Wales court-based scheme targeting adult defendants appearing before a participating Local Court who have a demonstrable illicit drug…
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2009
The Magistrates Early Referral into Treatment (MERIT) program is a New South Wales court-based scheme targeting adult defendants appearing before a participating Local Court who have a demonstrable illicit drug…
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Mar, 2004
The Aboriginal Alcohol and Drug Council’s Makin Tracks project, which began in 1999, aimed, among other things, to develop a multi strategy plan for intervention strategies for Aboriginal solvent and…
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1997
This paper is submitted by Mackay and District Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Corporation for Legal Aid Services (the Corporation) to Indigenous Deaths in Custody Summit held in Queensland in…
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2010
This report considers vocational education, post release support and, significantly, innovative strategies to better address the issue of Aboriginal recidivism. However, while this report found that there are significant successes…
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Sep, 2008
Ensuring that children get the best possible start in life is a key priority for the Australian Government. This report delivers the latest and most reliable information on how, as…
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2008
The reliance of the Canadian criminal justice system on adversarial procedures and incarceration is not very effective or productive when dealing with Aboriginal crime. Restorative justice is often presented as…
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Mar, 2002
This comment sets out the specific areas of conflict between mandatory sentencing and key human rights standards and provides a summary of criticism of mandatory sentencing by key United Nations…
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Dec, 2001
This paper addresses the debate on Northern Territory mandatory sentencing laws by surveying the regional institutional structures that have emerged in other parts of the world to bind governments to…
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Dec, 2001
This review of the impact of Western Australia’s three strikes mandatory sentencing laws for repeat home burglars finds that the laws are fundamentally flawed. Based on an analysis of cases…
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Dec, 2001
This paper will give a ‘criminological perspective’ on mandatory sentencing. It will however largely avoid the issues of the effect of mandatory sentencing provisions on the judicial process and judicial…
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Dec, 2001
These closing remarks provide a summary of views presented at the Mandatory Sentencing Symposium. While there are no constitutional impediments to state laws implementing mandatory sentencing, the practice may be…
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Dec, 2001
This paper The current controversy with respect to mandatory minimum sentencing laws takes place within a wider context of a general discussion on sentencing reform. This discussion has generally focused…
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2010
Authors:
Workman, Kim,
Albert, Ruahine,
Simpson, Ariana,
Clark, Hera,
O'Reilly, Denis,
Dunn, Roy,
Te Whaiti, Edge,
O'Reilly, Laurence,
Tamati, Kevin,
Candy, Anne,
Kupa, Georgina,
Karangaroa, Roberta,
Te Puni Kkiri
This report covers the proceedings of the wananga hosted by Te Puni Kokiri, 24 June 2010, Brentwood Hotel Wellington, New Zealand. The purpose of the wananga was primarily an opportunity…
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August , 2016
This report, published by an independent think tank, maps the number of government and non-government Indigenous programs and potential level of duplication across jurisdictions in Australia. It identifies that many…
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November, 2018
KPMG estimates the changes in Bourke during 2017, corresponding to the operation of the Maranguke Justice Reinvestment Project, resulted in a gross impact of $3.1 million (with operational costs of…
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2012
Acting superintendent of Darwin prison, Mr Bob Miller, was prompted by concerns raised in the 2010 Senate Hearing Health Report, to initiate an investigation into hearing loss among adult inmates…
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2006
This report is based on research carried out during 2005 and 2006 by Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) in consultation with Native American and Alaska Native organizations and individuals. The research…
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Jan, 2009
Authors:
Van Doeland, Mieke,
Jonhstone, Helen,
Vanden Heuvel, Adriana,
Al-Yaman, Fadwa,
Hemsley, Sam,
Wallis, Michelle,
Gourley, Michelle,
Dixon, Suzanne,
Byng, Karen,
Begum, Nelufa
This publication provides a picture of the social and emotional wellbeing of Indigenous Australians using data from the 2004-05 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey (NATSIHS) and a…
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2007
Wukindi rom is a way of practising dispute resolution, mediation and peace-making among the Yolngu people. Mawul rom is the application of the principles to the Dhurili Clan, to match…
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2002
This government document sets out the Queensland Government’s response to the Cape York Justice Study (2001) by Justice Fitzgerald, which found serious problems relating to alcohol and violence in Cape…
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2012
This report provides detail from a review of the literature regarding the prevention of and response to family violence with a focus on engaging Aboriginal men in remote communities. The…
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July, 2005
This report assembles what is known about the mental health of Indigenous Australians from community surveys. A systematic search was conducted of publications and data sources since 2000. Surveys had…
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April, 2014
This report examines the indefinite detention of Mentally Impaired Accused persons, pursuant to custody orders available in the Western Australian sentencing system. These orders are available under the Criminal Law…
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Mar, 2006
This brief paper suggests that in a crime prevention context, mentoring is often directed towards young people already involved in the criminal justice system or ‘at-risk’ of engaging in criminal…
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Sept, 2013
Research has shown that mentoring can have powerful and lasting positive impacts on the behavioural, academic and vocational outcomes of at-risk youth. This resource sheet examines the evidence on the…
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Sep, 2007
Australia’s criminal justice system is, for the most part, the model inherited from the British justice system. This model consistently yields high rates of recidivism by Aboriginal and Torres Strait…
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August, 2024
Authors:
First Nations women and children are murdered or go missing in Australia every year. This Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee inquiry investigates missing and murdered First Nations women and…
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2024
This document presents a review of the Australian literature (“the review”) on missing, murdered and incarcerated Indigenous women in Australia. This review was written at the invitation of, and in…
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2006
The intention of this discussion paper is to explore best practice issues in relation to Aboriginal Community Patrols in Western Australia in the context of crime prevention and community safety.…
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2013
This report presents interim findings from a study of petrol sniffing prevalence in a sample of 41 Australian Aboriginal communities, drawn from nine regions located in Northern Territory, South Australia,…
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2009
In September 2006 the Northern Territory Government announced a plan under the NT Alcohol Framework to address ongoing alcohol issues in Alice Springs, resulting in the development of the Alice…
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2001
This interview with Winsome Matthews, chairperson of the New South Wales Aboriginal Justice Advisory Committee, focuses on the implementation of the Committee’s new Aboriginal Justice Plan. The Plan involves a…
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November , 2022
Mparntwe/Alice Springs is the land of the Arrernte people who have lived in the Central Australia desert for tens of thousands of years. Alice Springs is situated roughly in Australia’s…
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August , 2019
The Mparntwe/Alice Springs Youth Action Plan 2019-2021 (Youth Action Plan) is a key component in the implementation of the Regional Youth Services Framework established by the Northern Territory (NT) Government…
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2009
Our legal system was largely inherited from Britain, so it is, therefore based in European-Western cultural and legal traditions. Alongside this, and over many thousands of years, Australian Indigenous communities…
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2010
In 2008 the Victorian Government launched a ten year plan to address Indigenous family violence. This paper critically reflects on the status of this plan two year after its launch.…