Aboriginal justice programs in Western Australia / Meredith Wilkie
- Bib ID:
- 2680523
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Wilkie, Meredith
- Description:
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- Nedlands, W.A. : University of Western Australia, Crime research Centre, [1991]
- xi, 287 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0864221304
- Series:
- Research report (University of Western Australia. Crime Research Centre) ; no. 5.
- Summary:
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Documents government programs and services and Aboriginal initiatives in the criminal justice system and related areas; covers Aboriginal Initiatives and Support Forum; Aboriginal Legal Service; Aboriginal Visitor Scheme; operation of the Aboriginal Communities Act 1979; Aboriginal-police relations; decriminalisation of drunkenness; alcohol rehabilitation; overview of juvenile offending and Department for Community Services funding and preventive programs; alternatives to detention; juvenile detention centres; community based corrections; imprisonment; prison programs; recidivism.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p.276-280.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia -- Criminal justice system
- Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia -- Crime
- Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Western Australia
- Criminal justice, Administration of -- Western Australia
- Social behaviour - Social deviance - Punishment - Imprisonment alternatives
- Law - Legal aid services
- Law enforcement - Criminal law and procedure
- Substance use - Rehabilitation
- Law enforcement - Police conduct and attitudes
- Law enforcement - Police-youth relations
- Crime - Recidivism
- Law enforcement - Prison visitors
- Western Australia (WA)
- Other authors/contributors:
- University of Western Australia. Crime Research Centre
- Copyright:
-
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- Published
- Publication date:
- 1991
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