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Edney, Richard

Imprisonment as a last resort for Indigenous offenders : some lessons from Canada?

Authors: Edney, Richard

Publishers: Indigenous Law Centre, University of New South Wales

A 1996 amendment to the Canadian Criminal Code aimed to reduce the over representation of Indigenous persons in prison, by requiring judicial officers to take Aboriginality into account in the […]

The importance of Indigenous stories : the Victorian Implementation Review of the Recommendations from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody

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Authors: Edney, Richard

Publishers: Indigenous Law Centre, University of New South Wales

The release of this Review provides an assessment of the consequences of dispossession and how they manifest in continuing high rates of Indigenous representation in all stages of the Victorian […]

The retreat from Fernando and the erasure of Indigenous identity in sentencing

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Authors: Edney, Richard

Publishers: Indigenous Law Centre, University of New South Wales

The decision of R v Fernando remains one of the most influential decisions on the relationship between Aboriginality and sentencing under Australian criminal law. The eight proposed sentencing principles, as […]

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