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Final Report of the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability

Resources September,2023

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The Final Report was tabled by government in the Australian Parliament on 29 September 2023. The Royal Commission has made 222 recommendations on how to improve laws, policies, structures and […]

Historical reasoning about Indigenous imprisonment: A community of fate?

Resources Apr,2015

Authors: Rowse, Tim
Publishers: Australian Review of Public Affairs 13 (1): 1 - 21

The high rate of Indigenous incarceration is a problem for public policy and therefore for historical and social analysis. This paper compares and contrasts two recent attempts at such analysis: […]

Improving Koori Justice Outcomes through One Justice

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Authors: Jackamos, Andrew
Publishers: National Indigenous Justice CEO Forum (2007: Brisbane)

These are the PowerPoint slides used as the basis of a conference paper presented at the ‘Cultural healing in criminal justice service delivery: an identification of best practice and innovation […]

Indigenous and Restorative Justice Approaches

Resources July ,2022

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Justice Canada, in collaboration with the Indigenous and Restorative Justice Subcommittee of the Federal Provincial Territorial (FPT) Restorative Justice Working Group (RJWG), hosted a virtual panel discussion on February 15, […]

Indigenous Justice Agreements

This paper provides an overview and analysis of the Indigenous Justice Agreements (IJAs) introduced by Australian states and territories, and examines whether strategic planning on Indigenous justice issues is improving […]

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Indigenous people and criminal justice in Victoria: Alleged offenders, rates of arrest and over-representation in the 1990s

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Authors: Gardiner, Greg, Takagaki, Tina-Maree
Publishers: Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, Monash University, 2001

This is a summary article of a monography which analyses Indigenous contact with the Victoria Police in the period 1993/94 to 1996/97. It provides details of Indigenous and non Indigenous […]

Innovative Justice Processes: Restorative Justice, Indigenous Justice, and Therapuetic Jurisprudence

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Authors: Daly, Kathleen, Marchetti, Elena
Publishers: Griffith University

The directions that responses to crime are moving are discussed: the first being innovative, promising to change established forms of criminal justice; the second being repetitive, to intensify established forms […]

Justice agreements, strategic plans and Indigenous/police relations

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Authors: Cunneen, Chris
Publishers: Indigenous Law Centre, University of New South Wales

Arising from the long term reform process set in motion by the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, many jurisdictions in Australia have established Indigenous Justice Agreements. While IJAs […]

Law and Justice

Resources July,2002

Authors: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, Office of Evaluation and Audit
Publishers: Outcome data measurement: Unfinished business: Evaluation of data for outcome measurement for selected Indigenous service delivery programs, Office of Evaluation and Audit, ASIC, Chapter 4, pp42-54

This chapter focuses on the adequacy of data relating to Indigenous people generated during each phase of the criminal justice system. The chapter discusses, and notes data inadequacies in, the […]

Law and justice statistics : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people : a snapshot, 2006

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Authors: Australian Bureau of Statistics
Publishers: Australian Bureau of Statistics

This snapshot presents an overview of Indigenous peoples’ experiences of law and justice as reported in the 2002 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey (NATSISS) as well as […]