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Indigenous community justice groups : the Queensland experience

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Authors: Limerick, Michael
Publishers: Australian Law Reform Commission Reform Journal

The obsession with the issue of the recognition of customary law has focused on the content of rules and customs rather than on the process of governing social relations, and […]

Four studies conducted for the Royal Commission Inquiry into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody : user’s guide for the machine-readable data files

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Authors: Biles, David, McDonald, David, Fleming, Jillian, Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
Publishers: Social Science Data Archives

This guide documents the data of four studies, each of which investigated an aspect of the broader context of aboriginal deaths in custody. The first study (601) surveyed the characteristics […]

Not Now, Not Ever: Putting an End to Domestic and Family Violence in Queensland

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Authors: Special Taskforce on Domestic and Family Violence in Queensland
Publishers: Special Taskforce on Domestic and Family Violence in Queensland

The Special Taskforce on Domestic and Family Violence in Queensland (the Taskforce) was established on 10 September 2014 to define the domestic and family violence landscape in Queensland, and make […]

Disadvantage, Drugs and Gaol: Re-thinking Indigenous Over-representation in Prison

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Authors: Weatherburn, Don
Publishers: Conference of the Australasian Society on Alcohol and other Drugs (2006: Cairns)

This conference paper discusses findings that it is drug and alcohol abuse, not poverty and unemployment, which are the key factors behind the high rate of Aboriginal imprisonment. Far from […]

Identifying the risks for Indigenous violent victimisation

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It is not a new observation that Indigenous people in Australia experience violence at a higher rate than the general population. The impact of violence on Indigenous people and their […]