Aboriginal Deaths In Custody
Submitted by shanedemirel on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Aboriginal Deaths In Custody
ABORIGINAL DEATHS IN CUSTODY..........
I WILL BE TELLING YOU ABOUT ABORIGINAL DEATHS IN CUSTODY AND THE ISSUES SURROUNDING DEATHS IN CUSTODY AND WAYS FOR REDUCING ABORIGINAL DEATHS IN CUSTODY IN THE FUTURE AND THE PRESENT.
AT THE TIME OF WRITTING,THE EVIDENCE SHOWS THAT SINCE 1980 THIER HAD BEEN AT LEAST 100 ABORIGINAL DEATHS IN CUSTODY UNDER THE AUSTRALIAN POLICE OR PRISON AUTHORITIES,THIS MAY INCREASE UNDER THE MUIRHEAD ROYAL COMMISION. THE COMMISSION, ESTABLISHED IN AUGUST 1987 RUN BY A WELL RESPECTED FORMER JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE NORTHERN TERRITORY,JUDGE OF THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA AND ACTING DIRECTOR OF THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF CRIMINOLOGY MR JAMES H. MUIRHEAD.
IN THE BEGINING OF THE ROYAL COMMISION IT WAS OBVIOUS THAT IT WOULD TAKE WELL OVER A YEAR TO BE COMPLETED.THE ROYAL COMMISIONS URGED AUSTRALIAN GOVERMENTS TO TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION AGAINST THE RISK OF ABORIGINAL DEATHS IN CUSTODY, AND NOT TO POSTPONE REFORMS UNTIL THE TABLING OF HIS FINAL REPORT.
WE SHOULD ALL BEAR IN MIND THAT THE PROBLEM DEATHS IN CUSTODY ARE BY NO MEANS LIMITED TO ABORIGINALS.DEATHS IN CUSTODY ARE LINKED TO FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES WHICH GO BEYOND MATTERS OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE.IT WOULD BE A MISTAKE TO FOCUS ON JUST THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, AND LOSE SIGHT OF SOCIAL,CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC PROBLEMS WHICH CONFRONT ABORIGINAL PEOPLE.
why are young aborigines who offend the against the law four times more likely to end up in detention centres than thier white counterparts who transgress inmates of those detention centres are aboriginal, when only two per cent of the australian population is aboriginal?these questions are part of one of the most pressing social problems facing australia in this age of reconciliation.
statistical summary.
There exists no centralised authuritative list of those,whatever thier race,who haved died in the custody of the australian goverments.Under australia's...
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