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

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

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

• Change the Record is a coalition of leading Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, human rights, legal and community organisations calling for urgent and coordinated national action to close the gap in imprisonment rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and cut disproportionate rates of violence experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, particularly women and children.

Indigenous imprisonment rates in Australia are unacceptably high.

Moreover, the need for justice targets aimed at ending the unacceptably high imprisonment rates of Indigenous Australians has also been discussed for years now.

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.

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.

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.

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 Blueprint For Change, released in November 2015, provided a twelve principle plan to close the gap within imprisonment rates and to cut disproportionate rates of violence experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; particularly women and children.

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

None of this is to deride the idea of the rule of law and its traditions — it is to say that it has not been applied equally to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, from the loss of our lands that precedes our current imprisonment rates, to current racially discriminatory laws.

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

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.

Western Australia continues to have the highest Aboriginal imprisonment rates in Australia.

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.

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

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.

As Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander imprisonment rates are unacceptably high, this is of immediate concern.

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.

Wilkinson and Pickett collected internationally comparable data on health and a range of social problems: levels of trust, mental illness (including drug and alcohol addiction), life expectancy and infant mortality, obesity, children's educational performance, teenage births, homicides, imprisonment rates and social mobility.

Both violence and imprisonment rates are also driven by a range of underlying and interlinked root causes, such as mental health, substance abuse, homelessness, poverty, family violence, exposure to the child protection system and other factors.

The Queensland Criminal Justice Commission suggested that the rise in imprisonment rates «may reflect greater law enforcement activity by police, rather than an increase in offending.»

«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.

This approach will not only cut offending and imprisonment rates, but critically will also increase safety by working to address the root causes of violence against women and children in the first place.

Aboriginal imprisonment rates are already dramatically higher than those of other Australians, and there is concern these laws alone could lead to an extra 1,000 - 2,000 Aboriginal men imprisoned each year.

The report showed 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.

Talking about addressing violence and imprisonment rates in tandem is difficult but, if we are to make progress in this area, it is critical that we adopt a balanced response which tackles these dual issues head on.

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

Since 1989, at the time of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, the imprisonment rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people has increased 12 times faster than the rate for non-Aboriginal people.

It is abhorrent that both the imprisonment rates and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths in custody have continued to rise, particularly, as the recommendations have remained largely unimplemented.

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».

«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.

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.

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