JV Barry Library current awareness alert: 1-31 Jul 2008

A selection of new key reports, books, journal articles and websites. All items are available on interlibrary loan through the JV Barry Library. Please contact your own library for assistance.

• Indigenous justice

Indigenous justice

Books/reports

• Beyond humbug : transforming government engagement with Indigenous Australia / Michael C Dillon and Neil D Westbury
  West Lakes, SA : Seaview Press, 2007
• Building a sustainable national Indigenous representative body : issues for consideration / Tom Calma
  Sydney : Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, 2008
  http://www.humanrights.gov.au/social_justice/repbody/repbody_paper2008.pdf
• Circles of support : towards Indigenous justice : prevention, diversion and rehabilitation / ACT Council of Social Service and Aboriginal Justice Centre
  Canberra : ACT Council of Social Service, 2008
  http://www.actcoss.org.au/publications/Publications_2008/1408PAP.pdf
• Diversion of Indigenous juvenile offenders / Lucy Snowball
  Canberra : Australian Institute of Criminology, 2008
  Note: Conferencing and cautioning are used as diversionary alternatives in the juvenile justice system and there is evidence to suggest they reduce reoffending. As Indigenous young people are overrepres...
  http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/tandi2/tandi355.html
• Does circle sentencing reduce Aboriginal offending? / Jacqueline Fitzgerald
  Sydney : NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, 2008
  http://www.bocsar.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/bocsar/ll_bocsar.nsf/vwFiles/CJB115.pdf/$file/CJB115.pdf
• Enabling justice : a report on problems and solutions in relation to diversion of alleged offenders with intellectual disability from the New South Wales local courts system / edited by Linda Steele
  Sydney : Intellectual Disability Rights Service, 2008
  http://www.idrs.org.au/pdf/enabling_justice.pdf
• Juvenile diversion and Indigenous offenders : a study examining juvenile offenders in Western Australia, South Australia and New South Wales / Lucy Snowball
  Canberra : Criminology Research Council, 2008
  Note: This study was motivated by a concern that Indigenous juvenile offenders were not receiving the benefits of diversionary schemes. Its aim was to assess how much of a difference in the rate of dive...
  http://criminologyresearchcouncil.gov.au/reports/200607-C02.html
• Northern Territory Emergency Response Taskforce final report to government, June 2008 / Sue Gordon
  Canberra : Northern Territory Emergency Response Taskforce, 2008
  Note: In June 2007 the Australian Government put in place emergency measures to protect Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory. The aim of the Northern Territory Emergency Response is to protect ...
  http://www.fahcsia.gov.au/nter/docs/reports/nter_taskforce_report.pdf
• The entangled relationship between Indigenous spatiality and government service delivery / S Prout
  Canberra : Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, 2008
  Note: The delivery of basic government services to remotely living and frequently mobile Indigenous populations is a highly contentious issue; one which has recently received considerable focus at a Fede...
  http://www.anu.edu.au/caepr/Publications/WP/CAEPRWP41.pdf
• Volatile substance misuse : a review of interventions / Peter d'Abbs and Sarah MacLean
  Canberra : Department of Health and Ageing, 2008
  http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/73AFC6ADE4DEED9CCA25746B00834DA8/$File/vol-sub-mis-rvw-int.pdf

Journal articles

• And justice for all?: Aboriginal victims of sexual violence. / Arielle Dylan, Cheryl Regehr and Ramona Alaggia
  Violence Against Women 14(6) June 2008: 678-696
• Assessing the race-crime and ethnicity-crime relationship in a sample of serious adolescent delinquents / Alex R Piquero and Robert Brame
  Crime and Delinquency 54(3) Jul 2008: 390-422
• 'Bringing them home' and the contemporary criminalisation of Indigenous young people / Chris Cunneen
  Australian Indigenous Law Review 12(Special ed.) 2008: 46-54
• Customary law and the sentencing of Indigenous offenders / Michael Dodson
  Judicial Officers' Bulletin 20(5) Jun 2008: 37-40
• Minister and Commissioner go bush as Balund-a opens its gates
  Department of Corrective Services Bulletin no. 618 Jun 2008: 4-5
• Promising performance of a juvenile justice diversion programme in remote Aboriginal communities, Northern Territory, Australia / Alan R Clough, Kim S Kylie Lee and Katherine M Conigrave
  Drug and Alcohol Review 27(4) Jul 2008: 433-438
• The NSW Aboriginal Justice Advisory Council's family violence awareness and prevention initiatives / Jacqueline Gerber
  Indigenous Law Bulletin 7(4) Mar/Apr 2008: 14-18
• Unresolved tensions : Warlpiri law, police powers and land rights / Thalia Anthony and Robert Chapman
  Indigenous Law Bulletin 7(5) May 2008: 9 + [4] p
• Working differently to make a difference in Indigenous communities / Wendy Jarvie
  Public Administration Today no. 14 Jan/Mar 2008: 5-13