JV Barry Library current awareness alert: November 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

• Preventing crime and promoting rights for Indigenous young people with cognitive disabilities and mental health issues / Australian Human Rights Commission
  Sydney : Australian Human Rights Commission, 2008
  Summary: This report examines the evidence on Indigenous young people with cognitive disabilities, maps some of the services available and looks at a variety of programs that show promise in helping these young people, as a basis for developing best practice principles and recommendations.
  http://www.humanrights.gov.au/social_justice/publications/preventing_crime/cog_disr.pdf

Journal articles

• Framing ideology in the niche media : the Koori Mail's construction of the Redfern riots / John Budarick and Debra King
  Journal of sociology 44(4) Dec 2008: 355-371
• Koori Court, Shepparton Victoria / Gerard Bryant
  Indigenous law bulletin 7(7) Aug/Sep 2008: 19-23
• Mutant messages : Victoria's Indigenous family violence 10 year plan / Kyllie Cripps and Leanne Miller
  Indigenous law bulletin 7(7) Aug/Sep 2008: 15-18
• The Murri Courts / Howard Jones
  Queensland lawyer 28(6) Jun 2008: 278-283
• The practices of Indigenous sentencing courts when sentencing domestic and family violence offenders / Elena Marchetti
  Australian Domestic & Family Violence Clearinghouse Newsletter no. 34 Spring 2008: 6-7
  Summary: Research based on interviews with 39 people (from 5 Indigenous sentencing courts), comprising 16 elders, 10 Aboriginal project/court liaison officers and Community Justice Group workers, 7 domestic violence support workers, 5 magistrates and 1 Local Court registrar