Black lives, white law : locked up and locked out in Australia / Russell Marks.
2022
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Author
Marks, Russell, author.
Title
Black lives, white law : locked up and locked out in Australia / Russell Marks.
Imprint
Collingwood : La Trobe University Press in conjunction with Black Inc., [2022]
Description
1 online resource
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of Description
Description based on online resource ; title from digital title page (viewed June 26, 2023)
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Unlimited user
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Access provided by Berkeley Law Library
Language
English
ISBN
1743822618 (electronic book)
9781743822616 (electronic book)
9781743822616 (electronic book)
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