| Description |
200 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction -- 1. The Issues -- 2. ̀Parents are suffering from being taken away' : Family Life and Juvenile Crime -- 3. 'Schools are not catering for Aboriginal kids' : Education and Aboriginal Youth -- 4. 'Ducking for cover' : Relations Between Police and Aboriginal Youth -- 5. ̀Our kids are on a treadmill' : Aboriginal Young People and the Courts -- 6. ̀Nothing is happening for Aboriginal kids' : Life on the Margins -- 7. ̀Give kids a chance' : Responding to the Marginalisation of Aboriginal Youth -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
Demonstrates the forces which lead to disadvantage, marginalisation and stereotyping of Aboriginal young people, which can predispose them to a life of crime and hostility to society; discusses marginalisation of Aboriginal youth; intervention and other responses to marginalisation |
| Analysis |
Aboriginal children |
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Aboriginal culture |
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Crime |
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Criminal justice |
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Domestic violence |
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Juvenile delinquency |
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Lake Jasper Project |
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Worsyde Project |
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Youth |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: 187-196 |
| Notes |
Donated by ATSIC Library |
| Subject |
Dodson, Pat, 1947-
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Dodson, Patrick, 1947-
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Riley, Rob, 1954-1996.
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Winch, J., Mrs
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Aboriginal Australians -- Juvenile delinquency
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Aboriginal Australians -- Childhood and youth.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Criminal justice system.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Youth.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Juvenile delinquency
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Children of minorities -- Education -- Australia.
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Crime -- Australia.
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Juvenile delinquency -- Australia.
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Juvenile justice, Administration of -- Australia.
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Youth, Aboriginal Australian -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Youth, Aboriginal Australian -- Social conditions.
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Youth, Aboriginal Australian.
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Juvenile Delinquency.
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Social Justice.
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| Author |
Omaji, Paul.
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| LC no. |
96127418 |
| ISBN |
186368137X |
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