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Poccum’s Law provides a best practice, evidence-based model for bail reform which would have prevented Veronica Nelson’s death in custody.
Care leavers are over-represented in the justice system. Rising rates of self-harm show an urgent need for greater mental health support.
There are signs Australian police have moved away from community service towards more enforcement – this is a troubling development.
In the wake of four Aboriginal deaths in custody in three weeks, the government needs to reassess the police and corrections systems in Australia.
Warlpiri people in Yuendumu have been strident in their demands for justice for Walker and protections from ongoing police violence.
The case of an African-American sailor who arrived in Melbourne in 1887 illustrates the long history of excessive punishment of Black bodies.
It’s a tragedy that hundreds have died because the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody were not implemented fully.
Tanya Day, Ms Dhu and Rebecca Maher are among the 400 people who have died in custody more than 25 years since the Royal Commission. How could those deaths have been avoided?
A visiting scheme envisaged to deter police misconduct in custody is not fit for purpose.
Cabinet papers reveal the extent to which the Keating government was torn between concern for fiscal responsibility and a desire to tackle Indigenous disadvantage and pursue meaningful reconciliation.
New research suggests 400 people have died from suspected suicide within 48 hours of leaving police detention in the last seven years.
The statistics used to discuss deaths in custody can make us lose sight of the fact that it’s people we’re talking about. People with families and friends, who died prematurely – and often brutally.
Accountability for the deaths of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people at the hands of the state remains absent 25 years after the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody’s report.
In the 25 years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, we’ve gone backwards.
Australia has become less compassionate, more punitive and more ready to blame individuals for their alleged failings since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.
The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody’s report was meant to be a blueprint for reducing the disproportionate incarceration of Indigenous Australians and deaths in custody.
Without the Custody Notification Service in NSW, deaths of Indigenous people in police custody will almost certainly increase, along with the over-representation of Indigenous people in prison.
Over the past ten years, 519 people have died after contact with the police, either in custody (the great majority) or during a pursuit or another road traffic incident. Some 23 people have been shot by…
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Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Foundation Chair in Australian Indigenous Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Social Research and Policy, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor in Criminal Justice and Criminology, Bond University
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Professor of Criminology, University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer, UTS Law School, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Socio-legal Studies, University of Liverpool
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Sheffield Hallam University
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Senior Fellow (Indigenous Programs), The University of Melbourne
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Lancaster University
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Professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice, Deputy Director, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge
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Reader in Criminal and Penal Justice; Master, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge
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Visiting Scholar, Criminal Justice, University of Birmingham
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Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney
