Product Description: Juvenile justice remains a central concern in Australian society in the 1990s. For many years it has attracted substantial public and government attention, and as a result there have been considerable changes to legislation, court procedures, policing and welfare intervention, often without the support of the systemic research...read more

Product Description: This book is a 1990 account of the ways in which young Aborigines were at a disadvantage before laws and legislation had been introduced, intended to improve their position. Aboriginal Youth and the Criminal Justice System focuses on South Australia, where detailed statistics are available, in a sophisticated analysis of the exact nature of the discrimination experienced by young Aborigines...read more