Abstract
Western Australia’s prison population has the highest rate of Aboriginal over-representation in Australia. Research on the criminogenic effect of imprisonment suggests that the use of imprisonment as a deterrent to future offending is not empirically supported and that imprisonment may in fact contribute to further offending. Consequently, this article explores theoretical debates surrounding penality as a way to inform alternative crime control strategies to imprisonment. It will be argued that any strategy to reduce Aboriginal imprisonment rates could benefit from a perspective that views Aboriginal imprisonment as a manifestation of Aboriginal resistance to settler colonial dominance.
Recommended Citation
Kelly, Miriam and Tubex, Hilde
(2015)
"Stemming the Tide of Aboriginal Incarceration,"
The University of Notre Dame Australia Law Review: Vol. 17
, Article 2.
Available at:
https://doi.org/10.32613/undalr/2015.17.1.2