Sentences with phrase «support justice reinvestment»

A major new report from the Australian Law Reform Commission, responding to a February 2017 brief by former Attorney General George Brandis, calls for national criminal justice targets and for governments to support justice reinvestment trials.

«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.»

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.

I am also pleased to see another authoritative report supporting justice reinvestment.

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.

Not exact matches

Justice reinvestment is about shifting spending away from prisons and juvenile detention expansion towards prevention, such as early childhood education in vulnerable communities, targeting young people at risk of school disengagement, intensive case work support with housing and employment support, and job creation.

A Shorten Labor Government would support justice targets, justice reinvestment and other measures to «close the justice gap» and address the over-inca... Read more

It recommended an Indigenous - led, evidence - based justice reinvestment trial to address these underlying causes of offending, as well as greater funding and support for Indigenous - driven solutions.

Labor: Does not mention justice issues in its Indigenous health election statement but Opposition leader Bill Shorten pledged last November to set justice targets with a focus on community safety, preventing crime and reducing incarceration, and to support research into justice reinvestment.

They said it was «imperative» that potentially effective interventions such as the justice reinvestment model are trialled at scale, and that this would require cross-jurisdictional government support, leadership and coordination.

The AMA call follows the recent promise that a Shorten Labor Government would support justice targets, justice reinvestment and other measures to «close the justice gap» and address the over-incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Governments should also work in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, their organisations and representative bodies to support the identification and development of place - based justice reinvestment trial sites.

He supported community driven initiatives like the Bourke justice reinvestment work, and could be found most mornings at the National Centre for Indigenous Excellence, boxing with the young people of Redfern together with local Aboriginal leadership and the local police.

In fact, one of the strengths of justice reinvestment is the ability to divert funding to culturally appropriate victim support services.

The Justice Centre has been crucial in developing the rigorous, evidence based approach to justice reinvestment that has encouraged bipartisan sJustice Centre has been crucial in developing the rigorous, evidence based approach to justice reinvestment that has encouraged bipartisan sjustice reinvestment that has encouraged bipartisan support.

[8] The Commission supports this recommendation and encourages the Western Australian government to develop and fund a justice reinvestment pilot program for the criminal justice system.