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Bringing them home and the contemporary criminalisation of Indigenous young people

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Authors: Cunneen, Chris
Publishers: Australian Indigenous Law Review 8 (2008) 12

When the ‘Bringing them home’ report was released in 1997, the focus was very much on the issue of the moral and legal responsibilities for past government policies of forced […]

Broken Hill and Menindee Rural Crisis Intervention Projects – Community Solutions to Aboriginal Family Violence: Final Report and Model of Best Practice 1999-2000

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Authors: NSW Department for Women
Publishers: NSW Department for Women

This report documents and evaluates the work undertaken by the Broken Hill and Menindee Rural Crisis Intervention Projects in finding community solutions to Aboriginal family violence. The report presents referral […]

Bugmy Bar Book

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Authors:
Publishers:

What is the Bugmy Bar Book? Launched in 2019, the Bugmy Bar Book is a free, evidence-based resource hosted on the website of the NSW Public Defenders. The project publishes accessible summaries […]

Building a sustainable national Indigenous representative body : Issues for consideration

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Authors: Calma, Tom, Dodson, Michael, Goodwin, Tim, Sullivan, Patrick, Veth, Peter, Weinman, Jo-Anne, Aggarwal, Alison, Cheatham, Kirsten, Chorn, Marissa, Dick, Darren, Kiss, Katie
Publishers: Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission

Issues of Indigenous disadvantage and dysfunction are before our eyes more frequently and more prominently than ever before. Barely a day goes by without another chilling and heartbreaking story of […]

Building communities, not prisons : justice reinvestment and Indigenous over-imprisonment

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Authors: Schwartz, Melanie
Publishers: Australian Indigenous Law Review 1 2010 14

Justice reinvestment is an emerging approach to addressing expanding prison populations. The merits of the justice reinvestment approach adopted in the United States and the United Kingdom to divert funding […]

Building the capacity of individuals, families and communities : Crime, safety and justice

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Authors: House of Representatives, Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs
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This section of the report covers crime, safety and justice issues in Indigenous communities. The section discusses various models of cooperative justice, including the Koori Court in Victoria and circle […]

Bush Court: administering criminal court process and corrective services in remote Aboriginal communities

Resources Sept,2002

Authors: Siegel, Natalie
Publishers: Monash University ,

Over a six-month period beginning July 2000, the author researched eight different Bush Courts in remote communities throughout the Northern Territory and Western Australia, and evaluated the level of legal […]

Cape York justice study

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Authors: Fitzgerald, Tony
Publishers: Australian Indigenous Law Reporter, 6(4) 2001

This article summarises the findings of the Cape York Justice Study, conducted by Justice Fitzgerald, and sets out many of its recommendations. The study was required to examine the causes, […]

Categories of Indigenous ‘homeless’ people and good practice responses to their needs : final report

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Authors: Memmott, Paul, Long, Stephen, Chambers, Catherine, Spring, Frederick
Publishers: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute

This research is concerned with the phenomenon of Indigenous homelessness in Australia. The project aimed to examine the definitions and constructs of ‘Indigenous homelessness’ found in the literature and to […]

Changing the Neo-Colonial Impacts of Juvenile Justice

Resources July,2008

Authors: Cunneen, Chris
Publishers: Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 20(1) p43

While there have been some progressive changes in Australian juvenile justice in recent years including developments in youth justice conferencing, more consistent and widely available diversionary options, and a longer […]