Indigenous justice in Australia

Corrections

Introduction

The corrections system is responsible for those people who are awaiting trial and were not granted bail; those who have been sentenced in court to imprisonment; and those who are in community corrections.

Contents

• Corrections and offender management
• Correctional programs
• Statistics:
  • Indigenous prisoners
  • Indigenous juveniles in detention
  • Community corrections
• Females

Other resources

• Disadvantage, drugs and gaol : re-thinking Indigenous over-representation in prison (PDF 65kB)
  Don Weatherburn, New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research. Keynote address, Conference of the Australasian society on alcohol and other drugs, November 2006
• Indigenous over-representation in prison : The role of offender characteristics (PDF 533kB)
  Lucy Snowball and Don Weatherburn, New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, Crime and justice statistics bureau brief, September 2006
• Indigenous prisoners, Year book Australia 2004
  Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2004
• Best practice interventions in corrections for Indigenous people
  Papers from the conference, 2001
• Best practice interventions in corrections for Indigenous people
  Papers from the conference, 1999
• Self-determination and Aboriginal imprisonment
  Richard Edney, 2001