JV Barry Library current awareness alert: September 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

• Audit of the prevention, diversion, rehabilitation and restorative justice program
  Canberra : Department of Finance and Deregulation, Jan 2008
  http://www.finance.gov.au/oea/docs/OEA_PDRRP_report.pdf
• Indigenous homelessness : place, house and home / Christina Birdsall-Jones and Wendy Shaw
  Melbourne : Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, 2008
  Summary: Looks at cultural understanding of homelessness, overcrowding and itinerancy. Research undertaken in Sydney, Broome, Carnarvon and Perth identifies factors leading to, and risks in, Indigenous homelessness, including violence.
  http://www.ahuri.edu.au/publications/download/80368_pp
• Indigenous social exclusion : insights and challenges for the concept of social inclusion / Boyd Hunter
  Melbourne : Brotherhood of St Laurence, 2008
  http://www.bsl.org.au/pdfs/Hunter_symposium_paper_26Jun08.pdf
• Making progress : the health, development and wellbeing of Australia's children and young people / Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
  Canberra : Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2008
  Summary: Information is presented on important issues such as mental health, disability, risk factors for chronic disease, mortality, education, homelessness, crime, jobless families and family economic situation. Particular attention is given to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and youth, and to how Australia compares internationally.
  http://www.aihw.gov.au/publications/phe/mp-thdawoacayp/mp-thdawoacayp.pdf
• Preventing intimate partner violence and sexual violence in racial/ethnic minority communities : CDC's demonstration projects / edited by Daniel J Whitaker and LeRoy Reese
  Atlanta, Ga. : Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2007
  http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/dvp/Preventing_IPV_SV.pdf
• Reintegration of Indigenous prisoners : key findings / Matthew Willis
  Canberra : Australian Institute of Criminology, 2008
  http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/tandi2/tandi364.html
• Risk factors in Indigenous violent victimisation / Colleen Bryant and Matthew Willis
  Canberra : Australian Institute of Criminology, 2008
  http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/tbp/tbp030.html
• SNAICC service development, cultural respect and service access policy / Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care
  North Fitzroy, Vic : Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care, 2008
  http://www.snaicc.asn.au/_uploads/rsfil/00208.pdf
• Submission to the Northern Territory Emergency Response Review Board / Northern Territory Government
  Darwin : Northern Territory Government, 2008
  Summary: Three key points identified as essential in a new approach to service delivery: community engagement, resource, and a new governance framework.
  http://www.action.nt.gov.au/docs/NTER_Submission.pdf