To stop the over-representation of African Australian youth in the criminal justice systems, we need more prevention programs that are culturally responsive.
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Social media can offer Black African young people in Australia safe spaces to engage in positive expressions of afro-Blackness.
A new crime prevention program in Western Australia is training young Australians of African descent to become peer mentors to at-risk youths in their communities.
The problem is the disproportionate amount of attention on the so-called African gang problem and the way these incidents are being reported.
Recent media reports of South Sudanese ‘crime gangs’ do nothing to offer young people what they most need: inclusion, acceptance and employment.
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Senior Lecturer, UniSA Education Futures, University of South Australia
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Senior Lecturer, Edith Cowan University
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Lecturer in Media, University of Adelaide
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Monash University
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Associate professor, Southern Cross University
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Senior Lecturer, Social Work and Human Services, RMIT University
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Associate Professor of Field Education, RMIT University
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Associate Research Fellow, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
