Arresting Incarceration

Pathways Out of Indigenous Imprisonment

• Author(s): Don Weatherburn,
• Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited
• Pages: 456
• ISBN_10: 145968687X
  ISBN_13: 9781459686878
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Law / Indigenous Law , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Australian & Oceanian Studies , Social Science / Penology , Social Science / Indigenous Studies , True Crime / General ,

Description:... Despite sweeping reforms by the Keating government following the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, the rate of Indigenous imprisonment has soared. What has gone wrong? In Arresting incarceration, Dr Don Weatherburn charts the events that led to Royal Commission. He also argues that past efforts to reduce the number of Aboriginal Australians in prison have failed to adequately address the underlying causes of Indigenous involvement in violent crime; namely drug and alcohol abuse, child neglect and abuse, poor school performance and unemployment.