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The past few decades have brought to light increasing evidence of systemic and repeated institutional abuse of children and young people in many western nations. Government enquiries, research studies and media reports have begun to highlight the widespread nature of sexual, physical and emotional abuse of vulnerable children and young people. However, while public attention has focused on 'episodic-dramatic' representations of institutional abuse, comparatively little emphasis has been given to the more mundane, routinized and systemic nature of abuse that has occurred. This book documents comprehensively a full range of abuse occurring in 'caring' and 'protective' institutions, with particular reference to the Australian case. The dominant theme is 'betrayal' and in particular the way...Source: Publisher

Indigenous youth --- Aboriginal children --- Youth, Aboriginal Australian --- Children --- Child welfare workers --- Child abuse. --- Youth --- Institutional care --- Malpractice --- Crimes against. --- Malpractice. --- Indigenous children. --- Youth, Aboriginal Australian.

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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. Fay Gale, Rebecca Bailey-Harris and Joy Wundersitz examine the criminal justice system in operation; from the initial intervention by a police officer, through the process of screening and assessment to the final outcome - which all too often is a criminal record. The research clearly shows that at every point where discretion was exercised within this system, Aboriginal youths received the harsher option. Thus disadvantage is heaped on disadvantage until young Aboriginals were imprisoned at 23 times the rate of other young Australians. Even for those who escaped detention, participation in the criminal justice system was often such an ordeal that it became a form of punishment in itself. Discretion, though preferable to inflexible rules could operate against a group whose lifestyle and values differed from mainstream society.

Aboriginal Australians --- Criminal justice system --- Youth --- Australian aborigines - Criminal justice system. --- Australian aborigines - Youth. --- Youth, Aboriginal Australian --- Aboriginal Australian youth --- Youth, Australian aboriginal --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Law --- General and Others --- Youth, Aboriginal Australian. --- Criminal justice system.

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Adolescents are at a critical life stage where they will soon be able to contribute to the wellbeing of humankind, or do it great harm. Consequently, it is vital that the challenges and possibilities of adolescence be well understood and addressed.

Youth, Aboriginal Australian --- Health and hygiene --- Social conditions --- Indigenous Youth --- Social Health Determinants --- Northern Territory --- Aboriginal Adolescents --- Don Dale Prison

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The book uses critical sociolinguistic analysis to examine the social consequences of courtroom talk. The focus of the study is the cross-examination of three Australian Aboriginal boys who were prosecution witnesses in the case of six police officers charged with their abduction. The analysis reveals how the language mechanisms allowed by courtroom rules of evidence serve to legitimize neocolonial control over Indigenous people. In the propositions and assertions made in cross-examination, and their adoption by judicial decision-makers, the three boys were constructed not as victims of police abuse, but rather in terms of difference, deviance and delinquency. This identity work addresses fundamental issues concerning what it means to be an Aboriginal young person, as well as constraints about how to perform or live this identity, and the rights to which Aboriginal people can lay claim, while legitimizing police control over their freedom of movement. Understanding this courtroom talk requires analysis of the sociopolitical and historical actions and structures within which the courtroom hearing was embedded. Through this analysis, the interrelatedness of structure, agency, constraint and change, which is central to critical sociolinguistics, becomes apparent. In its investigation of language ideologies that underpin courtroom talk, as well as the details of how language is used, and the social consequences of this talk, the book highlights the need for far-reaching changes to courtroom rules of evidence.

Trials (Police misconduct) --- Police misconduct --- Examination of witnesses --- Discrimination in criminal justice administration --- Intercultural communication --- Cross-examination --- Youth, Aboriginal Australian --- Misconduct in office --- Police --- Aboriginal Australian youth --- Youth, Australian aboriginal --- Cross-cultural communication --- Communication --- Culture --- Cross-cultural orientation --- Cultural competence --- Multilingual communication --- Technical assistance --- Race discrimination in criminal justice administration --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Evidence (Law) --- Trial practice --- Witnesses --- Language. --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Complaints against --- Anthropological aspects --- Law and legislation --- Pinkenba (Brisbane, Qld.) --- Courtroom Language in Australia. --- Discourse Analysis. --- Sociolinguistics.