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19. Crime and justice issues
The over-representation of Indigenous Australians in prison continues to be a serious problem, more than a decade after the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCADC) were handed down (Baker 2001; Williams 2001). 1 For example, Baker (2001) finds that the over-representation stems initially from the higher rate of appearance at court by Indigenous Australi...
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When the law gets something wrong, it can do so in a way that adversely affects many lives, often profoundly. Specifically, to society’s great detriment, the corrections arm of the American criminal justice system appears to have the distribution and administration of punishment exactly backward. We typically sentence young men who have committed their first violent felony—that group of offende...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: DOCA - Database of Variables for Content Analysis
سال: 2021
ISSN: 2673-8597
DOI: 10.34778/2zt