Criminology Research Council grant ; (18/89)
This project began as a small-scale study of forty-five communities over six months. The aim was to see whether or not sports facilities and competition reduced growing rates of adult and juvenile delinquency. In the end it became a five-year study of eighty communities involving in-depth interviews with 520 Aboriginal men and women, government officers of various specialisations, sports officials, police and correctional service officers.
This report made several recommendations including the setting up of a National Aboriginal Sports Commission, not solely dependent on government funding, and independent of other sports institutes, to provide grants, advice, staff and equipment directly to communities in need and not through regional agencies.