Sentences with phrase «indigenous imprisonment»

Baker, J, The scope for reducing indigenous imprisonment rates, NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research — Crime and Justice Bulletin Number 55, Sydney 2001, p3, www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/bocsar1.nsf/pages/cjb55text.

Indigenous imprisonment is a cause of great social exclusion and impacts on the enjoyment of human rights.

Justice reinvestment provides another argument for critically looking at these laws with an eye to reducing Indigenous imprisonment and expenditure.

[107] This is also reflected in Indigenous imprisonment, with urban and regional locations making up the bulk of high imprisonment locations.

Indigenous imprisonment rates in Australia are unacceptably high.

It will contribute to the increasing trend of Indigenous imprisonment, harsher sentences and oppression of Indigenous Australians.

the adult Indigenous imprisonment rate had increased by 57 % between 2000 and 2013, and the rate of juvenile detention remained about 24 times that of non-Indigenous youth.

If it were working, we would be seeing a reduction in Indigenous imprisonment, rather than the 48 % increase since 1996.

Not exact matches

How might it change our attitudes if we could see that the unjust imprisonment, abuse, and execution of the historical Jesus has more in common with the experience of Indigenous Australians or asylum seekers than it does with those who hold power in the church and usually represent Christ?

That is why in this chapter I look to justice reinvestment from the United States as a new approach that may hold the key to unlocking Indigenous Australians from the cycle of crime and escalating imprisonment rates.

The rate of imprisonment of Indigenous people in Western Australia was 21.7 times higher than that of the non-Indigenous population;

There are extremely high rates of imprisonment for Indigenous men aged 20 - 29.

This chapter, based on the evidence from the United States and consideration of the Australian context, argues that it is about time we got smart with our money and reinvested in community wide early intervention and support our Indigenous communities, rather than throwing it away on imprisonment.

Accordingly, the inter-connections between the experiences of Indigenous women prior to and during imprisonment must be borne in mind when considering program support provided to them upon release from prison.

The issues affecting Indigenous women post-release are often the very same issues confronted prior to, and in some cases during, imprisonment.

Imprisonment rates for Indigenous males are 12 times higher than the rate for all males, and the rate for Indigenous females 14 times higher than for all females.

The increase in imprisonment of Indigenous women has also been much greater over the period compared with non-Indigenous women.

(13) The rate of imprisonment for Indigenous people on a national basis is 16 times higher than that of the non-Indigenous population.

It shows the age - standardised imprisonment rate of Indigenous people increased between 2000 and 2014 (from 1,100 to 1,857 per 100,000 adults) while the non-Indigenous rate increased only slightly, resulting in an 82 % increase in the gap over this period.

Change the Record is a coalition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, human rights, legal and community organisations advocating on disproportionate imprisonment and violence rates for Indigenous Australians.

Tauli - Corpuz said in a statement that Australia must reduce the «astounding» rates of imprisonment for Indigenous peoples and step up the fight against racism:

Aborigines are far worse off than White Australians in relation to housing, health, wealth, social conditions, imprisonment, avoidable death and life expectancy (see Gideon Polya, «Film Review: «Utopia» By John Pilger Exposes Genocidal Maltreatment Of Indigenous Australians By Apartheid Australia», Countercurrents, 14 March, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya140314.htm; Gideon Polya, «Ongoing Aboriginal Genocide And Aboriginal Ethnocide By Politically Correct Racist Apartheid Australia», Countercurrents, 16 February 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya160214.htm; «Aboriginal Genocide»: https://sites.google.com/site/aboriginalgenocide/; MacRae A, Thomson N, Anomie, Burns J, Catto M, Gray C, Levitan L, McLoughlin N, Potter C, Ride K, Stumpers S, Trzesinski A, Urquhart B (2013).

77 % of Indigenous inmates had previously been sentenced to an adult prison (total imprisonment rate 13x higher than the general population)

The AMA Indigenous Health Report Card 2015 — Treating the high rates of imprisonment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as a symptom of the health gap: an integrated approach to both — called on the Australian Government to set a target for closing the gap in the rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander imprisonment.

rates of imprisonment at «crisis point», with an 88 % increase in rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders over the past decade — Indigenous people now 13x more likely to end up in custody, comprise one - third of all female prisoners and half of all juveniles in detention

Legislation regarding mandatory imprisonment in Western Australia and the Northern Territory, which leads in many cases to imposition of punishments that are disproportionate to the seriousness of the crimes committed and would seem to be inconsistent with the strategies adopted by the State party to reduce the over-representation of indigenous persons in the criminal justice system, raises serious issues of compliance with various articles of the Covenant.

[73] While the current Closing the Gap initiatives in areas such as health, education and employment are welcome and will have a long - term positive effect on reducing imprisonment, targets addressing the current over-representation of young Indigenous people are crucial.

One step towards this can be made by ensuring Indigenous women have the freedom of choice to access support services should they choose to both during imprisonment and post-release; to access accommodation that is appropriate to their requirements; and to provide health and other community support services that meet their needs as Indigenous women.

However, part of the reason for the growth in the overall imprisonment rate is the continued overrepresentation of Indigenous Australians.

The causes of the rise in the rates of imprisonment of Indigenous women are complex and inter-related.

Social Justice Report 2001 Contents Summary of the Social Justice Report 2001 Letter of submission Recommendations Chapter 1: Ten years on from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Chapter 2: Mutual obligation, welfare reform and Indigenous participation: a human rights perspective Chapter 3: Indigenous governance and community capacity - building Chapter 4: Laws mandating minimum terms of imprisonment («mandatory sentencing»)...

Carcach, C., Grant, A. and Conroy, R., Australian corrections: The imprisonment of Indigenous people Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC), Trends and Issues in Crime and criminal justice: No. 137, AIC, Canberra, 1999, p2.

[7] Justice reinvestment acknowledges what Indigenous communities have known for a long time — taking people out of communities through imprisonment weakens the entire community.

The imprisonment rate has increased by 46 % for Indigenous women and by 27 % for Indigenous men between 2000 and 2008.

That is why in this year's Social Justice Report I look to justice reinvestment as a new approach that may hold the key to unlocking Indigenous Australians from the cycle of crime and increasing imprisonment rates.

In 2008, 73 % of Indigenous prisoners, compared to 49 % of non-Indigenous prisoners, had a history of prior adult imprisonment.

That is why in this chapter I look to a recent development from the United States, justice reinvestment, as a new approach that may hold the key to unlocking Indigenous Australians from the cycle of crime and escalating imprisonment rates.

Research has identified a strong correlation between imprisonment of Indigenous women and the experience of sexual assault and separation from family.

The study reported that by September 2002, 89 % of Indigenous male juveniles on supervised orders had progressed to the adult system, with 71 % having served at least one term of imprisonment.

[130] The Indigenous female imprisonment rate has increased by 34 % between 2002 and 2006 while the imprisonment rate for Indigenous men has increased by 22 %.

For Indigenous women, the rate of imprisonment increased by over 58 % between 2000 and 2010, and more than 51 % for men.

Indigenous women also serve comparatively shorter sentences, suggesting a general failure to employ the principle of imprisonment as a last resort.

In her research of mortality among Indigenous women prisoners after being released from jail in Victoria, Martyres identifies the importance of contextualising a women's life circumstances prior to, during and immediately following imprisonment:

However, we can take no comfort from our track record on the imprisonment of Indigenous Australians.