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Date: November 22, 2024 Fri
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Results for corrections (australia)
2 results foundAuthor: Graffam, Joseph Title: Strategies to enhance employment of Indigenous ex-offenders after release from correctional institutions Summary: Employment is an important element of successful integration within one’s community. Across Australia, nearly two-thirds of prisoners were unemployed when they committed the crimes for which they were incarcerated. For Indigenous and non-Indigenous ex-prisoners alike, there are numerous benefits associated with employment. They include benefits related to the individual (for example, increased earning capacity, improved prospects for sustained employment, increased social contact, improved self-esteem and confidence, improved financial conditions, and less idle time) and to their family (for example, greater self-sufficiency, better lifestyle, provision of financial assistance to family networks), as well as wider system benefits, including reduced likelihood of reoffending and reimprisonment. This resource sheet discusses the issues surrounding employment of Indigenous ex-prisoners, existing support programs, and strategies to employ more ex-prisoners after their release from correctional institutions. To be effective, programs and strategies need to acknowledge the social and cultural origins of disadvantage for Indigenous offenders. We give an overview of what works in overcoming Indigenous disadvantage and focus on regional and urban programs that help Indigenous offenders gain employment. Details: Australian Institute of Family Studies, Australina Institute of Health and Welfare, 2012. 13p. Source: Resource sheet no. 11 produced for the Closing the Gap Clearinghouse: Internet Resource: Accessed March 21, 2012 at http://www.aihw.gov.au/closingthegap/documents/resource_sheets/ctgc-rs11.pdf Year: 2012 Country: Australia URL: http://www.aihw.gov.au/closingthegap/documents/resource_sheets/ctgc-rs11.pdf Shelf Number: 124634 Keywords: Corrections (Australia)Ex-Offenders (Employment) (Australia)Indigenous Peoples (Australia) |
Author: Fitzgerald, Jacqueline Title: Why is the NSW Prison Population Falling? Summary: Aim: After steadily increasing for more than a decade, from mid 2009 the NSW prison population started falling. This paper aims to identify why this has occurred. Method: The study relied upon administrative data. Corrections data was considered to gauge the size, timing and nature of changes in the prison population. Police recorded crime and court data were analysed to measure changes in offending and sentencing which eventually have a bearing on prison numbers. Results: Corrections data showed that the decrease in the prison population was limited to sentenced prisoners and was driven by a reduction in the number of offenders serving sentences for Assault, Break and enter, Theft and Traffic offences. Break and enter, Theft and Assault, prisoners appear to have decreased, in part, because the incidence of these offences have fallen. There have also been moves away from the use of imprisonment as a penalty for each of the four offences whether because fewer offenders are being imprisoned or because the average sentence length has fallen. Conclusion: In 2011, fewer offenders were serving prison sentences for Assault, Break and enter, Theft and Traffic offences. This appears to be due to both a reduction in the number of offenders in court and changes in sentencing practices for certain offences. It is beyond the scope of this paper to ascertain whether changes in sentencing practice reflect a move towards more lenient sentencing or whether they have resulted from changes in the severity of offences themselves. The reduction in the number of offenders for some offences appears to be due, at least in part, to a reduction in the volume of crime. Details: Sydney: NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, 2012. 6p. Source: Crime and Justice Statistics Bureau Brief, Issue Paper No. 80: Internet Resource: Accessed November 15, 2012 at http://www.bocsar.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/bocsar/ll_bocsar.nsf/vwFiles/bb80.pdf/$file/bb80.pdf Year: 2012 Country: Australia URL: http://www.bocsar.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/bocsar/ll_bocsar.nsf/vwFiles/bb80.pdf/$file/bb80.pdf Shelf Number: 126931 Keywords: Corrections (Australia)Incarceration Rates (Australia)Prison Population (Australia)Sentencing (Australia) |