Citation

Dawes GD, Davidson A. J. Offender Rehabil. 2019; 58(6): 520-543.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/10509674.2019.1621417

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Initiatives targeting Indigenous overrepresentation in Australia's criminal justice systems have been largely ineffectual. Justice reinvestment has been touted as a potential panacea. This article provides a framework for developing justice reinvestment plans with communities, based on a qualitative research project focusing on levels of crime and recidivism in two remote Indigenous communities. The framework is a hybrid design, informed by a crime analysis, action research, narrative data analysis and a culturally informed Indigenous research paradigm. It is argued that justice reinvestment can be successfully implemented which empowers Indigenous peoples to identify the causes of crime based on place-based solutions.

Language: en

Keywords

Community-based rehabilitation; crime prevention; diversion; evidence based practice; justice reinvestment; offender re-entry