Bibliograph

Black lives, white law, locked up and locked out in Australia, Russell Marks

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Black lives, white law, locked up and locked out in Australia, Russell Marks

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Black lives, white law

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Russell Marks

Sub title

locked up and locked out in Australia

Summary

Indigenous Australians are the most incarcerated people on the planet. Indigenous men are fifteen times more likely to be locked up than their non-Indigenous counterparts; Indigenous women are twenty-one times more likely. Featuring vivid case studies and drawing on a deep sense of history, Black Lives, White Law explores Australia's deplorable record of locking up First Nations people. It examines Australia's system of criminal justice - the web of laws and courts and police and prisons - and how that system interacts with First Nations peoples and communities. How is it that so many are locked up? Why have imprisonment rates increased in recent years? Is this situation fair? Almost everyone agrees that it's not. And yet it keeps getting worse

Target audience

adult

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