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dc.contributor.authorWallis, Rebecca
dc.contributor.authorChrzanowski, April
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-04T04:02:06Z
dc.date.available2022-04-04T04:02:06Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.issn1835-8624en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/125313
dc.description.abstractConcern 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.peerreviewedYesen_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherJustice and the Law Society (JATL)en_US
dc.publisher.urihttp://www.jatl.org/pandoras-boxen_US
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom37en_US
dc.relation.ispartofpageto47en_US
dc.relation.ispartofjournalPandora's Boxen_US
dc.relation.ispartofvolume22en_US
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLegal Institutions (incl. Courts and Justice Systems)en_US
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLawen_US
dc.subject.fieldofresearchOther Law and Legal Studiesen_US
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode180120en_US
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1801en_US
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1899en_US
dc.titleAddressing Indigenous Over-Representation in the Australian Criminal Justice System: Some Thoughts about the Role of Legal Institutions as Stewards of a Complex Systemen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articlesen_US
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articlesen_US
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gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Criminology and Criminal Justiceen_US
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gro.griffith.authorChrzanowski, April P.
gro.griffith.authorWallis, Rebecca P.


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