School house to big house

Grace O'Brien, Michelle Trudgett

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Abstract

In 1991, the Australian Government released the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Report. Of the 339 recommendations, Recommendation 62 identified that there was an alarming over-representation of Indigenous youth in contact with the criminal justice system. The report called for immediate action by governments to develop strategies that would urgently reduce retention rates of Indigenous youth within the prison system. Analysis of the literature indicates that almost three decades after the release of this report, the high numbers of Indigenous youth who are incarcerated, or who have come into contact with the juvenile justice system remains the same. Although there is a good deal of literature investigating the criminological characteristics of this phenomena; there is a substantial gap in the literature surrounding the educational exclusion of young Indigenous males from the formal education system. This paper focusses specifically on the literature surrounding student exclusion from state schools and how this may provide some insight into the subsequent over-representation of young Indigenous males within the Queensland juvenile justice system.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)98-106
Number of pages9
JournalAustralian Journal of Indigenous Education
Volume49
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020

Keywords

  • Aboriginal Australians
  • Australia
  • education
  • indigenous youth
  • juvenile detention

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