Arresting incarceration : pathways out of Indigenous imprisonment / Don Weatherburn
- Bib ID:
- 6389106
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Weatherburn, Don, author
- Description:
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- Canberra, A.C.T. : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2014
- ©2014
- xvii, 189 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781922059550 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Despite sweeping reforms by the Keating government following the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, the rate of Indigenous imprisonment has soared. What has gone wrong? In Arresting incarceration, Dr Don Weatherburn charts the events that led to Royal Commission. He also argues that past efforts to reduce the number of Aboriginal Australians in prison have failed to adequately address the underlying causes of Indigenous involvement in violent crime; namely drug and alcohol abuse, child neglect and abuse, poor school performance and unemployment.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-183) and index.
- Subject:
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- Prisoners, Aboriginal Australian
- Imprisonment -- Australia
- Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions
- Torres Strait Islanders -- Social conditions
- Indigenous peoples -- Australia -- Social conditions
- Criminal justice, Administration of -- Australia
- Law enforcement - Prisons - Prisoners
- Law enforcement - Police conduct and attitudes
- Law enforcement - Offences - Public order
- Child welfare - Welfare abuse
- Government policy - Intervention - Emergency response - 2007-2012
- Law enforcement - Custody - Deaths in custody - Royal Commission - Implementation of recommendations - Commonwealth
- Law enforcement - Punishment - Imprisonment alternatives
- Employment - Programs - Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP)
- Employment - Unemployment
- Crime and imprisonment statistics
- Education - Schools - Attendance
- Social behaviour - Violence
- Substance use
- Australian
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- Publication date:
- 2014
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