Justice reinvestment provides another argument for critically looking at these laws with an eye to reducing Indigenous imprisonment and expenditure.
Not exact matches
«The Australian Human Rights Commission has long supported a
justice reinvestment approach that addresses the social determinants of health and invests in the expertise
provided by Indigenous organisations.»
Justice reinvestment still retains prison as a measure for dangerous and serious offenders but actively shifts the culture away from imprisonment and starts
providing community wide services that prevent offending.
A Shorten Labor Government will
provide the resources for a long - term study of
justice reinvestment in Bourke, to see what Australia can learn.
The Australian Human Rights Commission supports a
justice reinvestment approach that addresses the social determinants of health, adopts
justice targets and invests in the expertise
provided by Indigenous legal organisations that can also help bring about the change that is necessary to stop the high levels of contact between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the
justice system.
Appendix 1
provides a chronology of events for 2008 — 2009; appendix 2 relates to chapter two on
justice reinvestment, and appendices 3 — 5 relate to chapter three on Indigenous languages.