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Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
Summarises issues addressed in Royal Commission and responses by federal and state governments to findings; mentions law and justice, empowerment, youth, women, economic development, education, health, housing, monitoring implementation of recommendations.
Arresting Incarceration
Despite sweeping reforms by the Keating government following the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, the rate of Indigenous imprisonment has soared. What has gone wrong? In Arresting Incarceration, Don Weatherburn charts the events that led to Royal Commission. He also argues that past efforts to reduce the number of Aboriginal Australians in prison have failed to adequately address the underlying causes of Indigenous involvement in violent crime: namely, drug and alcohol abuse, child neglect and abuse, poor school performance, and unemployment.
Conflict, Politics and Crime
Aboriginal people are grossly over-represented before the courts and in our gaols. Despite numerous inquiries, State and Federal, and the considerable funds spent trying to understand this phenomenon, nothing has changed. Indigenous people continue to be apprehended, sentenced, incarcerated and die in gaols. One part of this depressing and seemingly inexorable process is the behaviour of police. Drawing on research from across Australia, Chris Cunneen focuses on how police and Aboriginal people interact in urban and rural environments. He explores police history and police culture, the nature of Aboriginal offending and the prevalence of over-policing, the use of police discretion, the parti...
National Report
Broad statistical overview of the Aboriginal deaths in custody investigated by the Royal Commission; immediate circumstances surrounding deaths; standard of custodial care; conduct and quality of the investigative process proceeding a death; rights of the family of the deceased; discussion and statistics showing reasons for, and duration of Aboriginal detention and disproportionate representation.
Justice
A lively and multi-dimensional insight into Australian history, Justice: A history of the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia reveals the human face of some of the nation's major social, political and legal reforms of the past four decades. The Aboriginal Legal Service began by defending Aboriginal people's right to equality before the law, and its defence of Aboriginal people's human rights has taken this story beyond the criminal justice system.
Deaths in Custody, Australia, 1980-1989
Each research paper (No. 1 - No. 22) annotated separately.
Indigenous Peoples' Rights in Australia, Canada, & New Zealand
Indigenous Peoples' Rights in Australia, Canada and New Zealand aims to provide a contemporary and contextual survey and analysis of the legal and political interaction between the `British settler' states of Australia, Canada and New Zealand, and the indigenous First Nation peoples they dispossessed.
