The criminalisation of conduct : Indigenous youth in the criminal justice system

Author	Brown, Laura
Date	Jan, 2012
Source/Publisher	Indigenous Law Centre, University of New South Wales
Link(s)	http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/ILB/2012/2.html
Subjects	Juvenile justice

Description

Explores the attitudes of police and the imposition of bail conditions in an attempt to explain why Indigenous juveniles in NSW are incarcerated at a rate 28 times higher than non-Indigenous juveniles.

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