Rates of Indigenous imprisonment have soared despite sweeping reforms by the Keating government following the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. 

In Arresting incarceration, Dr Don Weatherburn charts the events that led to the Royal Commission. He argues that past efforts to reduce the number of Aboriginal Australians in prison have failed to adequately address the underlying causes of Indigenous involvement in violent crime; namely drug and alcohol abuse, child neglect and abuse, poor school performance and unemployment.

Production Details

• Paperback
• 230mm x 150mm x 12mm
• 208pp
• Released February 2014
• ISBN 9781922059550

Contents

List of tables and figures
List of abbreviations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: The problem of Indigenous over-representation in prison
Chapter 2: A short history of Indigenous imprisonment
Chapter 3: The Royal Commission and its aftermath
Chapter 4: The theory of systemic bias
Chapter 5: Theories of Indigenous offending
Chapter 6: Key risk factors for Indigenous offending
Chapter 7: Responding to Indigenous offending
Chapter 8: Social and economic reform
Chapter 9: Can we close the gap?
Notes
Reference List
Index