Children are still being held in police cells and juvenile detention for low-range offences, under alarming conditions. Here's how their mental health and future prospects suffer.
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Aboriginal mothers in prison feel intergenerational trauma and the forced removal of their children are the most significant factors impacting their health and well-being.
Indigenous Australians are vastly over-represented in the prison population, but the success of a new program is offering hope that it can be turned around.
Fines for minor infringements and offensive language crimes are among laws that create a cycle of poverty and disadvantage for Indigenous Australians.
Colten Boushie's death and the subsequent acquittal of his killer has fuelled loud calls for reforms to Canada's criminal justice system and its treatment of the Indigenous. Why has it taken so long?
Indigenous youth are over-representation in juvenile detention centres, and excluding them from education could make this worse.
Cape York Partnership founder Noel Pearson told Q&A that Indigenous Australians were 'the most incarcerated people on the planet Earth'. Is that right?
The NT youth justice royal commission’s interim report did not deliver any findings or make any recommendations. Nor did it reflect young people’s personal stories.
The report focus on the government’s own policies fails to acknowledge genuine differences of opinion on key issues such as constitutional recognition and income management.
To reduce female recidivism rates, we need to address inmates' histories of trauma and abuse.
The official data show incarceration rates of Indigenous people have doubled since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody 25 years ago. But the problem may be even worse than that.
It is surely extraordinary it took a Four Corners program, excellent as it was, to force the attention of Northern Territory and federal politicians on to the scandal of the NT detention system when most…
Around 20% of Aboriginal births in Western Australia between 1996 and 2012 weren't registered, new research shows. This has many social and health ramifications for their future.
Results of a new audit tell a tale that is, sadly, all-too-familiar across the Top End of Australia.
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.
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Associate Professor in Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Criminology, UNSW
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Professor of Criminology, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Researcher, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, University of Technology Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior Lecturer and Academic Coordinator, Nura Gili Indigenous Programs Unit, UNSW
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Lecturer in Law, University of Technology Sydney
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independent researcher and volunteer, UNSW
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Associate Professor in Crimninology; Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre, Monash University
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Professor and Head: Aboriginal Health, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute
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Associate Professor, School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Western Australia
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PhD Candidate, University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor, Sociology, Bishop's University
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Post-doctoral research fellow in public health, University of Technology Sydney
