Sentences with phrase «australian juvenile justice system»

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For two decades, Australian authorities have had their attention drawn repeatedly to the fact that Indigenous people are vastly over-represented in the juvenile justice and criminal justice systems.

It is not merely an accident of language that the appalling infant mortality and peri-natal morbidity rates for Indigenous infants results in vastly disproportionate «hospital separations» today, and that the juvenile justice systems of Australia continue to separate Indigenous children from their families at rates well beyond those for other Australian children.

The individuals and organisations releasing statements yesterday were in favour of a wide - ranging examination of the NT Juvenile Justice system, with some, including the Change the Record coalition, the National Family Violence Prevention Legal Services and the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) pointing out that the problems were not confined to one Australian Territory, and the Commission should lead to a national examination of both the conditions of juvenile detention and the factors playing into the unacceptably high number of Indigenous children and youth inJuvenile Justice system, with some, including the Change the Record coalition, the National Family Violence Prevention Legal Services and the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) pointing out that the problems were not confined to one Australian Territory, and the Commission should lead to a national examination of both the conditions of juvenile detention and the factors playing into the unacceptably high number of Indigenous children and youth injuvenile detention and the factors playing into the unacceptably high number of Indigenous children and youth in prison.

The third trend is that it has long been recognised that there is a clear connection between the level of disadvantage experienced by Indigenous Australians and the over-representation of Indigenous juveniles and adults in criminal justice and care and protection systems.

Processes of separation through the criminal justice, juvenile justice and care and protection systems, combined with dysfunctional behaviour such as violence and abuse in communities are indicative of the inequality and extreme marginalisation of Indigenous people in Australian society.