19. Crime and justice issues
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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 Australians, but is amplified at the point of sentencing, with Indigenous offenders sentenced to imprisonment at almost twice the rate of non-Indigenous people. The violent nature of the offences for which Indigenous people are convicted and the greater likelihood of Indigenous people having prior convictions were also found to contribute to their higher rate of imprisonment.
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