Indigenous Australian arrest rates: Economic and social factors underlying the incidence and number of arrests
Description
The over-representation of Indigenous Australians in prison continues to be a serious problem, even a decade after the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody were handed down. The greatest leverage for reducing Indigenous imprisonment rates appears to lie in reducing the rate at which Indigenous persons appear in court rather than in reducing the rate at which convicted offenders are sentenced to imprisonment. This would mean not only diverting Indigenous...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) |
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Date published: | 2001 |
Type: | Working/Technical Paper |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/40155 |
Access Rights: | Open Access |
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