Arresting Incarceration: Pathways Out of Indigenous Imprisonment

[Don Weatherburn] ✓ Arresting Incarceration: Pathways Out of Indigenous Imprisonment ↠ Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Arresting Incarceration: Pathways Out of Indigenous Imprisonment 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 alc

Author	:	Don Weatherburn
Rating	:	4.21 (899 Votes)
Asin	:	1922059552
Format Type	:	paperback
Number of Pages	:	224 Pages
Publish Date	:	2016-08-29
Language	:	English

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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.

Amazon Customer said Informative, educational. A very detailed, academic analysis of the issue of Indigenous incarceration, ARRESTING INCARCERATION: PATHWAYS OUT OF INDIGENOUS IMPRISONMENT is sobering, difficult, and confronting reading. And it's hard not to feel like a bit of a fraud in discussing it - not being of the communit