Australia

Public police agencies face challenges in getting voluntary cooperation from youth and find it particularly difficult to engage youth in collaborative crime control efforts. Understanding factors that shape young people?s […]

Authors: Taylor, John

There is a compelling need for fresh perspective on the policy implications of Indigenous demographic trends. Current frameworks for considering the structural situation of Indigenous peoples are increasingly focused on […]

Authors: Blagg, Harry

The conference creates an awareness of victim and justice issues for Indigenous people across Australia and New Zealand, particularly in the Northern Territory. A series of positive, solution focussed community […]

Authors: Osborne, Howard

These are the PowerPoint slides used as the basis of a conference paper presented at the ‘Cultural healing in criminal justice service delivery: an identification of best practice and innovation […]

This study aims to estimate the prevalence of mental disorder in a representative sample of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Queensland prisons. Cross-sectional assessment of mental health using […]

Authors: Calma, Tom

This report provides an investigation of early intervention and diversionary practices aimed at preventing offending behaviour in Indigenous young people with a cognitive disability and/or a mental health problem. Specifically, […]

Prison industries represent an important component of service delivery for correctional administrations around the world and yet there have been few attempts to articulate the specific role that they play […]

There is now a substantial amount of published literature describing the range of programs and interventions that have been implemented in an attempt to improve aspects of community safety. Only […]

This is a useful report that includes evaluation information, about the cost benefit of Aboriginal healing programs for the justice system. The report recommends that evaluation measures for future healing […]

Authors: Cunneen, Chris

The article revisits Indigenous imprisonment and punishment through The Australian Prisons Project(APP). The APP was established in 2008 as a result of an Australian Research Council grant, where a major […]