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Use of the Massachusetts youth screening instrument to assess mental health problems in young people within an Australian youth detention centre. “You cannot really hide”: Experiences of probation officers and young offenders with GPS tracking in Winnipeg, Canada. Martin, F. A. It is a criminal justice policy approach that diverts a portion of the funds spent on imprisonment to the local communities where there is a high In M. O. Neilsen & R. A. Silverman (Eds.). Youth justice and child protection: The Children’s Court in Western Australia. “Indigenous youth are more likely to be in detention than non-Indigenous youth, and they are being placed into detention for more serious crimes, such as acts intending to cause injury,” he continues. However, studies tend to adopt homogenising discourses that fail to acknowledge or deeply examine the diversity of Indigenous Australian experiences of crime, including across geographic and cultural contexts. Tribal Youth in the Juvenile Justice System. Attempted suicide, self-harm, and psychological disorder among young offenders in custody. Eitle, D., & McNulty-Eitle, T. (2016). Tauri, J. AYAC believes that a range of new and innovative strategies, that move away from the failed “tough on crime” rhetoric, are needed if A culturally safe education engagement model for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men in prison. Law Society of NSW President, Elizabeth Espinosa, said Indigenous youth make up only 4 percent of the youth population in NSW, but 51 percent of the juvenile detention population. A range of physical and mental health issues directly relateand contribute to the overrepresentation of Indigenous youth in thecriminal justice system. Koch, J., & Scherer, J. The focus is to reach out to people in the local area with a warm welcome to a wide variety of groups encompassing communities from Ghana, the Caribbean, Uganda, Romania, South Asia, the Congo, along with the indigenous population. After reviewing the jurisdictional and contextual information specific to each of the four countries, a conceptual framework is provided which identifies the various contributing factors to this issue and categorizes them according to whether they are systemic or individual. 1 0 obj Totten, M. (2016). Thus, it is theorized, the interaction of structural inequality, community and cultural breakdown, and systemic discrimination (rooted in the vestiges of colonialism) result in Indigenous overrepresentation in prisons (Grekul & LaBoucane-Benson, 2008).The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (1995) locate the root cause of Indigenous crime and overrepresentation in the criminal … Victimization and offending among the Aboriginal population in Canada. Retrieved from. Melander, L. A., Sittner-Hartshorn, K. J., & Whitbeck, L. B. Willoughby, A., & Nellis, M. (2016). fundamental causes of youth crime by involving victims, engaging offenders, and consulting community leaders (Lockwood et al. Dawes, G. D. (2011). Eight Indigenous youth in training at the Saskatoon Community Youth Arts Programming (SCYAP) were selected for the study through interview. In contrast, almost 90 per cent of stories concerning Indigenous youth deal with failure — demonstrating how our systems have failed Indigenous peoples, and how they, in turn, fail to fit in. A snapshot of youth in custody counts the number of individuals in each facility on a particular day. This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the research and programs related to Indigenous youth crime across four jurisdictions with significant Indigenous populations (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States). 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