Research and Public Policy Series

A multi-agency resocialisation program to reduce the incarceration and recidivism rates of Indigenous peoples

Richard Young
Executive Director, Aboriginal Prisoners and Offenders Support Services, South Australia

Published in:
Proceedings of Roundtable on Sentencing and Indigenous Peoples convened by the Australian Institute of Criminology and the University of South Australia, on 31 October 1997
Rick Sarre and Digby Wilson (eds)
ISBN 0 642 24077 9 ; ISSN 1326-6004
Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, 1998
(Research and Public Policy Series, no. 16)
{Cover title: Sentencing and Indigenous peoples}

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Abstract

Services to Indigenous people are currently provided by a diverse range of organisations which receive separate funding and which are able to determine their own policies, directions, operational plans and financial management. The Multi Agency Resocialisation Program, however, proposes to pool resources to provide a broad spectrum of effective prevention programs, within the components of prisons and prisoners; family; community; and government.