Sentences with phrase «into contact with the criminal justice system»

The website has lots of information for families who have come into contact with the criminal justice system as a result of a family member's offending behaviour.

This section provides a statistical snapshot of Indigenous women in custody and the broader factors that impact on Indigenous women who come into contact with the criminal justice system.

The recommendations for a whole - of - government approach through COAG aim to promote community safety and reduce the rates at which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people come into contact with the criminal justice system.

The effects of trauma manifest in many ways that hinder our students» education, from chronic absenteeism, feeling depressed or helpless, and come into contact with the criminal justice system.

She is also passionate about her work with Peacebuilders International, an organization that runs restorative justice programs for youth who have come into contact with the criminal justice system.

There is more research and work to be done in this area, especially if the goal is to reduce the number of Indigenous people who come into contact with the criminal justice system and reducing the number of Indigenous children in care in the child welfare system.

Residential school survivors suffer from high rates of poverty, suicide, depression, and anxiety disorders; roughly half of the survivors have come into contact with the criminal justice system.

«Higher rates of disadvantage, over-policing, more restrictive approaches to bail, mandatory sentencing, and a lack of non-custodial sentencing options in regional and remote areas are having a disproportionate impact on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and bringing them into contact with the criminal justice system at a greater rate.»

(153) Healing is not something that should only be available at the post-release stage, rather it should be available at any point when a woman is ready - this may be before a woman comes into contact with the criminal justice system, or after they have been in and out of prison over a number of years.

what are the conditions, the understandings, the agreements that would need to be in place in order to return those young people who are in detention centres, to keep those young people who are at risk of incarceration from coming into contact with the criminal justice system, and

Supporting this claim the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) identified that 37.1 percent of Indigenous adults coming into contact with the criminal justice system had ceased schooling before year 10.

Healing is not something that should only be available at the post-release stage, rather it should be available at any point when a woman is ready — this may be before a woman comes into contact with the criminal justice system, or after they have been in and out of prison over a number of years.

Together with «Operation Ascari II,» a police initiative that targets public drinkers, the paperless arrest powers are bringing more people, largely Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, into contact with the criminal justice system.

(g) The State party continue its efforts to address the socio - economic disadvantage that, inter alia, leads to a disproportionate number of indigenous Australians coming into contact with the criminal justice system (UN Doc: A / 56/44, paras 47 - 53, 21 November 2000)