This chapter provides details of an important crime prevention initiative, the Local Justice Initiatives Program, which is already operating in over 30 Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal communities in Queensland. […]
A clear message that came out of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody was that for policy to be developed successfully, input from the Indigenous community was indispensable. […]
The presentation discusses the introduction of a dispute resolution service to the Yarrabah community in Queensland. In reducing the barriers to the use of mainstream legal services, the program aimed […]
This Technical and Background Paper summarises the results of a Australian Government Attorney-General’s Department’s funded project. The project aimed to clarify the contribution of the community night patrol program in […]
This report from the AIC’s Research and Public Policy series (no 111) is a collection of chapters from authors who have worked closely and collaboratively with police. It provides an […]
This report provides background notes for two workshops associated with the 2009 Community safety and indigenous peoples conference in Ottawa. Topics for the first workshop, on the main trends and […]
This report on the development of a community safety survey arose from a need for a greater level of awareness about the behaviours and circumstances that affect community safety and […]
Resources April,2013
This report examines the link between sentencing in the Magistrates’ Court of Victoria and the over-representation of Koori people in Victoria’s prisons. The focus of this examination is a comparison […]
This article examines the ethical considerations that need to be addressed when conducting research with Indigenous (and other marginalised) communities, including a need to ensure that appropriate cultural protocols are […]
The collective wellbeing of many Indigenous Australian communities has been chronically impaired by colonisation. Colonisation has undermined the fundamental principles that ‘held’ and guided people by their communities’ connections. Social […]