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Title Violence in indigenous communities : full report / Paul Memmott ... [and others]
Published Barton, A.C.T. : Crime Prevention Branch, Attorney-General's Department, [2001]
©2001

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 W'PONDS  364.150899915 Mem/Vii  AVAILABLE
Description vi, 122 pages ; 30 cm
Contents Section 1. A review of literature on Indigenous violence -- Quantitative analyses -- Qualitative analyses -- Causes of violence -- Underlying factors of violence -- Situational factors -- Precipitating causes -- Customary violence and the problem of the abnormal enculturation of violence -- Alcohol and violence -- Powerlessness and helplessness amongst Indigenous men -- Section 2. Forms of Indigenous violence -- On the classification of violence -- Section 3. Violence programs in Indigenous communities -- Program profiling -- The identified violence prevention programs in Indigenous communities -- Description of program categories -- Programs not included in this survey -- Descriptions of individual program categories -- Classification of violence programs according to their time of implementation -- Findings of the program suvey -- Deficiencies of literature on violence programs -- More can be done -- Section 4. Strategies for combating Indigenous violence -- Understanding the cause for community-driven programs -- Starting a violence program in a community -- The need for holistic composite programs -- Relationships and partnerships between groups -- Program evaluation -- Summary of guidelines for local violence strategies -- Some Indigenous violence priorities.0
Summary Indigenous Australians are by far over represented as both victims and perpetrators in all forms of violent crime in Australia
Notes "National Crime Prevention"--Cover
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 114-122
Notes Also available electronically on the WWW
Also available electronically via the Internet
Commonwealth of Australia
Subject Aboriginal Australians.
Aboriginal Australians -- Crime
Violence -- Australia -- Prevention.
Family violence -- Australia.
Violence -- Australia.
Prevention and Control
Family Relations.
Aborigines
Crisis Intervention.
Domestic Violence.
Rural Population.
SUBJECT Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315
Author Memmott, Paul.
Australia. National Crime Prevention
ISBN 0642284040
Other Titles Title of summary: Preventing violent crime : preventing violence in indigenous communities