dc.contributor.author | Wallis, Rebecca | |
dc.contributor.author | Chrzanowski, April | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-04-04T04:02:06Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-04-04T04:02:06Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1835-8624 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/125313 | |
dc.description.abstract | Concern about the over-representation of Indigenous people in Australia's criminal justice system is justified. Indigenous people currently comprise 27.6% of the Australian prison population, despite representing only 3% of the total population. This means that Indigenous people are 13 times more likely to be incarcerated than non-Indigenous people. A closer examination shows that over-representation appears at various other points within the system as well. Data from a Queensland cohort study shows, for example, that 57.3% of all Indigenous people had some contact with the criminal justice system by the age of 19 compared with 20.9% of all non-Indigenous people. The criminal career trajectories of Indigenous people also differ is some key ways to those of non-Indigenous people. Indigenous offenders have higher rates of contact with the criminal justice system, and shorter periods of time elapse between additional contacts. There are also some important gender differences. For example, in 2012 the fastest growing imprisoned population in Australia was Indigenous women. In Queensland, the cohort study revealed that 38.6% of Indigenous women had had contact with the criminal justice system and 2.2% of all Indigenous women had spent some time incarcerated by age 19.5 This over-representation also has intergenerational consequences. A recent study demonstrated, for example, that Indigenous children were four times more likely than non-Indigenous children to experience the imprisonment of a parent in their lifetime.6 Taken as a whole, these statistics paint a bleak picture of the mass criminalisation and incarceration of Indigenous people in Australia. | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Yes | en_US |
dc.language | English | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Justice and the Law Society (JATL) | en_US |
dc.publisher.uri | http://www.jatl.org/pandoras-box | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | 37 | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofpageto | 47 | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofjournal | Pandora's Box | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofvolume | 22 | en_US |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Legal Institutions (incl. Courts and Justice Systems) | en_US |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Law | en_US |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Other Law and Legal Studies | en_US |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 180120 | en_US |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 1801 | en_US |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 1899 | en_US |
dc.title | Addressing Indigenous Over-Representation in the Australian Criminal Justice System: Some Thoughts about the Role of Legal Institutions as Stewards of a Complex System | en_US |
dc.type | Journal article | en_US |
dc.type.description | C1 - Articles | en_US |
dc.type.code | C - Journal Articles | en_US |
dc.description.version | Version of Record (VoR) | en_US |
gro.faculty | Arts, Education & Law Group, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice | en_US |
gro.description.notepublic | After all reasonable attempts to contact the copyright owner, this work was published in good faith in interests of the digital preservation of academic scholarship. Please contact copyright@griffith.edu.au with any questions or concerns. | en_US |
gro.hasfulltext | Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Chrzanowski, April P. | |
gro.griffith.author | Wallis, Rebecca P. | |