Sentences with phrase «imprisonment rate»

[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 %.

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

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

The overall imprisonment rate has been increasing substantially in Australia, growing by around 4 % each year since 1984.

[80] This represents an almost doubling of the overall imprisonment rate during this period.

Other sources of new funding are evident and would support policy objectives such as lowering the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander imprisonment rate as discussed above.

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

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.

The imprisonment rate — the number of prison inmates per 100,000 people — stood at 482 in 2003.

England and Wales have the highest imprisonment rate in western Europe at 143 per 100,000 of the population, according to the Prison Reform Trust, compared to just 88 per 100,000 in France and 97 per 100,000 in Germany.

The neo-liberal countries had the highest imprisonment rates with conservative - corporatist, then social - democratic and finally oriental - corporatist countries on a descending scale towards moderation in penal policy.

The report, tabled in Federal Parliament today, contains 35 recommendations to address community safety and imprisonment rates amongst Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

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.

Addressing violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and rising imprisonment rates requires a nuanced approach, according to Antoinette Braybrook and Shane Duffy, Co-Chairs of the Change the Record Coalition.

«We have certainly made it very clear that whatever it is, whether it's new targets or refreshing of the old targets, it must not forget that our imprisonment rates of our people are at unacceptable levels, as are our suicide rates and rates of children being put in out of home care,»

Successful early intervention and prevention strategies will not only cut offending and imprisonment rates, but importantly will increase safety by addressing the root causes of violence against women and children.

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.

If we really want to address both rates of violence and rising imprisonment rates, we need to adopt a more nuanced approach.

It has a young population, high levels of unemployment and disengagement from education, and high imprisonment rates.

Panellists will discuss the Change the Record campaign (pictured above right), and calls for greater investment in early intervention, prevention and diversion strategies, and «smarter solutions that increase safety, address the root causes of violence against women, cut reoffending and imprisonment rates, and build stronger and safer communities».

For example, in addition to improving healthcare for those caught up with the justice system, how about seeking to reduce imprisonment rates?

«If we are serious about changing the record of violence and imprisonment rates for our people, it is vitally important that the Government commits to long - term investment in Aboriginal community - controlled services and organisations.

It recommends that governments adopt an integrated approach to reducing imprisonment rates and improving health through much closer integration of Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations (ACCHOs), other services and prison health services across the pre-custodial, custodial and post-custodial cycle, and says key elements of this approach would be:

I am not over reacting; the statistics of Aboriginal imprisonment rates are a major factor in me telling my children to use the utmost caution around the police.

In particular, the AMA believes it is possible to isolate particular health issues (mental health conditions, alcohol and other drug use, substance abuse disorders, and cognitive disabilities are the focus of this report card) as among the most significant drivers of the imprisonment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and target them as health issues as a part of an integrated approach to also reduce imprisonment rates.

Tracker Magazine editor Amy McGuire writes that new laws for alcohol - related offences in NSW will have a disproportionate effect on Aboriginal people, particularly given that Aboriginal imprisonment rates are already dramatically higher than those of other Australians.

Imprisonment rates have more than doubled in the past decade, growing independent from changes in the crime rate.

Addressing violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and rising imprisonment rates requires a nuanced approach, according to Antoinette Braybrook and Shane Duffy, Co-Chair... Read more

Incarceration was a principal focus of the UNSR's visit, and she described imprisonment rates, particularly of women and children, as «simply astounding».

Imprisonment rates are dropping in places where justice reinvestment is being implemented.

A target to reduce imprisonment rates should be introduced, [141] and investing in mental health and drug and alcohol services be considered as a justice reinvestment measure.

Indigenous imprisonment rates in Australia are unacceptably high.

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.

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.

In the decade since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody incarceration rates for women have increased at a more rapid rate than for men, and imprisonment rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women have increased more than for other women.

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.

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Coates links this legal discrimination to ongoing poverty within African American communities, which then links to lack of educational and employment opportunities, high rates of imprisonment, and the dissolution of the family.

The US has an astonishingly high rate of imprisonment, perhaps five times that of the highest in Europe.

The overall trend in the rate of imprisonment has been fairly consistent over the last fifty years.

«Also sentenced is a Navy Rating whom was charged with Disorderly Behaviour and insubordinate Behaviour bagged 6 months imprisonment on each charge which will run concurrently.

In a 2005 study of 454 undergraduates, psychologist Sari Gold of Temple University and her colleagues revealed that students who had experienced nontraumatic stressors, such as serious illness in a loved one, divorce of their parents, relationship problems or imprisonment of someone close to them, reported even higher rates of PTSD symptoms than did students who had lived through bona fide trauma.

by at least one measure (the rate of imprisonment), the United States has the largest criminal justice system in the world;

Divorce rates up there with imprisonment and death as one of the most stressful experiences, as per the Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale... in fact, divorce is number two on the list.

The human rights group says a structured sentencing framework would produce injustice, prevent optimum sentencing outcomes and could even result in an increase in rates of imprisonment: «These proposals go entirely against the prevailing trend of government criminal justice policy in recent years in relation to violent and sexual offences: that is, an emphasis on the individualised risk posed by the individual offender towards a member or members of the public.»

Schools to Jail: Research by sociologist Bruce Western and his collaborators documents that youg minority males who do not finish high school experience witheringly high rates of imprisonment by the time they are 30 (close to 2 / 3rds).

Given that research suggests that high rates of imprisonment make only a modest difference to crime levels, Lacey says that in purely economic terms, «increased prison spending is a form of fiscal mismanagement».

In a ministerial statement in April 2006 the Home Secretary announced, with immediate effect, the abolition of the discretionary scheme and the independent assessor's new approach of discounting under CJA 1988, s 133 (4A) at a higher rate any non-pecuniary awards to reflect the claimant's previous record and conduct leading to his wrongful imprisonment.

The rate of imprisonment in the U.S. has risen drastically over the past few decades.

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