Abstract
The seminar identified areas of less than optimal fit between Aborigines generally and the various criminal justice systems, with a view to producing a list of resolutions aimed at ameliorating problem areas.
Also titled: Aborigines and the criminal justice system
12-16 September 1983
Contents
- Preface
Seminar resolutions
- Preamble
- Education
- Communication
- Dangerous substance abuse
- Aboriginal-police relations
- Aboriginal employment in corrections
- Justices of the peace
- Sentencing data
- Aborigines under sentence
Papers
Alcohol & crime
- Aboriginal alcohol abuse & crime in Queensland
Cliff Fua & Laurie Lumsden - Alcohol & anomie: the nature of Aboriginal crime
John McCorquodale
Juvenile care & treatment
- A comparison of appearances by Aboriginal & non-Aboriginal children before the Children's Court & Children's Aid Panels in South Australia
Rebecca Bailey - Aboriginal children & youth in care
Stewart Murray
Aborigines, police & policing
- Policing in some Aboriginal communities - a commentary on experiences in Central Australia & in the Kimberleys in 1978 with particular reference to juveniles
Daryl Gunter - Aborigines & police - hostility, harmony or hopelessness?
Owen Bevan - Police/Aboriginal relations: a Tasmanian perspective
Mike Mansell
Aborigines & courts
- The struggle for law: Aboriginal-police relations & the role of the Magistrate's Court - North West New South Wales
Christine McIlvanie - Aborigines & the courts I
Terence Syddall - Aborigines & the courts II
Terence Syddall - 'The voice of the people': Aborigines, judicial determinism & the criminal justice system in Australia
John McCorquodale - Aborigines in summary courts in Western Australia, a regional study: preliminary report on selected findings
Margaret Martin & Liza Newby
Aborigines, corrections, probations & parole
- Aboriginals & the supervision process
Correctional Services Division, Darwin - Proposal to establish an Aboriginal Resource Unit
Margot Mellick - Misfits: Aboriginal culture & prison
Patricia Lowe
Aboriginal traditional attitudes & western justice
- Aboriginal customary law & the Australian criminal law: an unresolved conflict
Peter Hennessy - Contemporary issues in the management of law & order in South Australia Pitjantjatjara community
David Hope
Aborigines & crime statistics
- Crime statistics relating to Aboriginal people in South Australia
Adam Sutton
- List of participants