Sentences with phrase «justice reinvestment makes»

Justice reinvestment makes us think more broadly and holistically about what really leads to crime and how we can prevent it.

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The pressing need to explore justice reinvestment in Victorian is largely driven by prison overcrowding (prisoner numbers up 42 % since 2004), disproportionately high percentage of Aboriginal people making up the youth justice and adult prison populations, record high re-offending rates of prisoners at 40 %, and the rocketing expenditure (over $ 1 billion last year).

This sort of modelling supports the justice reinvestment argument that imprisonment simply does not make good economic sense, and — conversely — that investing in mental health services in our communities does.

The Australian Red Cross has joined calls for a shift to justice reinvestment, issuing a major report urging that it be made a national priority and t...

Overall, Indigenous Australians have significantly lower access to mental health services, private or public, than other Australians and it thus makes sound policy and economic sense that investing in mental health services for Indigenous Australians should be one avenue to explore through justice reinvestment programs.

The Australian Red Cross has joined calls for a shift to justice reinvestment, issuing a major report urging that it be made a national priority and that trials be rolled out nationwide.

[144] Consequently it makes sound policy and economic sense that investing in mental health services for them is an avenue to explored through justice reinvestment programs.

Indigenous communities already have some of the mechanisms in place to make community involvement in justice reinvestment work.

Effective implementation of a justice reinvestment programme will immediately reduce the number of victims and make our communities safer.

The next part of the chapter goes on to put forward some ideas about making justice reinvestment work for Indigenous Australians.