Research Catalog

Title

Keeping Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people out of custody : an evaluation of the implementation of the recommendations of the Royal Commission in [ie. into] Aboriginal Deaths in Custody / Chris Cunneen, David McDonald.

Author

Cunneen, Chris, 1953-

Publication

Canberra : Office of Public Affairs, ATSIC, c1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

• McDonald, David (David Neil), 1946-
• Australia. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission. Office of Public Affairs.

Description

225 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

Context of the research - Case studies - Analyses of the recommendations nd their implementations.

Subject

• Australia. Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
• Aboriginal Australians > Social conditions
• Aboriginal Australians > Services for
• Aboriginal Australians > Government policy
• Aboriginal Australians > Criminal justice system
• Prisoners > Australia > Death
• Prisoners > Australia > Mortality
• Police > Complaints against > Australia
• Prisons and race relations > Australia
• Prisoners, Aboriginal Australian > Death
• Prisoners, Aboriginal Australian > Mortality

Note

• "August 1996."
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, PO Box 17, Woden ACT 2606.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 196-203.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- PART ONE : THE CONTEXT OF THE RESEARCH -- 1: Introduction -- 2: Data on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander over-representation in the criminal justice system -- 3: Explanations for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander over-representation in the criminal justice system -- PART TWO : CASE STUDIES -- 4 : Poor Practice Case Studies -- 5 : Best Practice Case Studies -- PART THREE: ANALYSIS OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS AND THEIR IMPLEMENTATION -- 6: Adequacy of Information -7: Aboriginal and Police Community Relations -- 8: Responding to Public Drunkenness -- 9: Police Practices and Procedures -- 10: Imprisonment as a Last Resort -- 11: Court Processes, Legislation and Aboriginal Legal Representation -- 12: Aboriginal Young People and the Juvenile Justice System -- PART FOUR -- 13: Conclusion -- APPENDIXES -- Appendix 1: The recommendations of the Royal Commission most proximate to reducing the over-representation of Aboriginal people in custody -- Appendix 2: Methodological issues in determining over-representation -- Appendix 3: Details of Federal funding related to State agencies for the implementation of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody recommendations.

ISBN

064226449X

OCLC

• 38407805
• SCSB-10089573

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library