Conference of the Australasian Society on Alcohol and other Drugs (2006: Cairns)

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

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 […]

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