Weatherburn, Don J – Indigenous Justice Clearinghouse

Weatherburn, Don J

Does racial bias in sentencing contribute to Indigenous overrepresentation in prison?

Authors: Snowball, Lucy, Weatherburn, Don J

Publishers: The Australian and New Zealand journal of criminology [variant title : ANZSOC journal]: 2007, 40, 3 Dec

The possibility of racial bias in the criminal justice system is a recurring concern in Australia, as it is in other countries with high rates of minority over-representation in prison. […]

Towards a theory of Indigenous contact with the criminal justice system

Resources 22 May,2024

Authors: Weatherburn, Don, Doyle, Michael, Weatherall, Teagan, Wang, Joanna

Publishers: Australian Institute of Criminology

The Australian Indigenous imprisonment rate is currently 16.7 times the non-Indigenous imprisonment rate. The leading proximate cause of this over-representation is a high rate of Indigenous arrest. In this report […]

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