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No Vagrancy : An examination of the impact of the criminal justice system on people living in poverty in Queensland

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Authors: Walsh, Tamara

Publishers: T.C. Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland

The aim of this project was to investigate the extent to which people living in poverty interact with, and are impacted by, the workings of the criminal justice system in […]

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health services report, 2010 – 11: OATSIH Services Reporting – key results

Resources Oct,2012

Authors: Wangerek, Louise, Zhang, Xiaomu (Amie), Topfer, Alex, Tuttle, Richard

Publishers: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

This report isthe third national report on health services provided by Aboriginal community controlled and non-community controlled health organisations, and funded by the Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander […]

Disadvantage, Drugs and Gaol: Re-thinking Indigenous Over-representation in Prison

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Authors: Weatherburn, Don

Publishers: Conference of the Australasian Society on Alcohol and other Drugs (2006: Cairns)

This conference paper discusses findings that it is drug and alcohol abuse, not poverty and unemployment, which are the key factors behind the high rate of Aboriginal imprisonment. Far from […]

The economic and social factors underpinning Indigenous contact with the justice system: Results from the 2002 NATSISS survey

Resources Oct,2006

Authors: Weatherburn, Don, Snowball, Lucy, Hunter, Boyd

Publishers: NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, Crime and Justice Bulletin, Contemporary Issues in Crime and Justice, Number 104

This study uses the 2002 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey (NATSISS) to examine the economic and social factors that underpin Indigenous contact with the criminal justice system. […]

Indigenous perpetrators of violence : prevalence and risk factors for offending

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Authors: Wundersitz, Joy

Publishers: Australian Institute of Criminology

The issue of violence in Indigenous communities has attracted serious and increasing political and media attention in recent years, the culmination of which is represented by the Northern Territory Emergency […]

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