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Aboriginal contact with the criminal justice system and the impact of the Royal Commission in to aboriginal deaths in custody / Richard W. Harding ... [et al.]
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Publication details:
Sydney : Hawkins Press, 1995.
Record id:
25437
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Subject:
Aboriginal Australians.
Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Institutional care -- Australia.
Contents:
1. Introduction
1.1 The Royal Commission into aboriginal deaths in custody
1.2 The recent history of the criminal justice system and its impact upon Aboriginals
1.3 The Aboriginal population
1.4 General explanations of Aboriginal crime
1.5 Reducing the imbalance: self-help strategies and economic equity
1.6 Overview
2. Aboriginal crime victims
2.1 Sources of information
2.2 Victim surveys
2.3 Crimes reported to police
2.4 Summary
3. Police activity and Aborigines
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Police apprehensions
3.3 Police custody
3.4 Police cautioning
3.5 Location of apprehensions
3.6 Risks of re-arrest
3.7 Summary
4. Aborigines in the courts
4.1 Young Aborigines and the Children's Court
4.2 Courts of Petty Sessions, 1992
4.3 Higher courts
4.4 Summary: the sentencing role of the courts
5. Imprisoned Aborigines
5.1 Juveniles in detention
5.2 Adult imprisonment
5.3 Probabilities of re-imprisonment
5.4 Police lock-ups
5.5 Deaths in custody
5.6 Summary
6. Aborigines and community-based correction
6.1 Trends
6.2 Community service and probation orders
6.3 Work and development orders
6.4 Parole
6.5 Home detention
6.6 Interstate comparisons
6.7 Summary
7. The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and Aboriginal contact with the criminal justice system
7.1 Aboriginal crime and victimisation patterns
7.2 Police contacts, diversion mechanisms and the RCIADIC
7.3 The courts, the recommendations of the RCIADIC, and the proposed new sentencing legislation for Western Australia
7.4 Imprisonment patterns and their implications for the RCIADIC recommendations
7.5 Aborigines and community-based corrections: implications for the RCIADIC recommendations
7.6 Summary
8. Conclusions.
ISBN:
1876067012
Phys. description:
x, 144 p.