Australia has become less compassionate, more punitive and more ready to blame individuals for their alleged failings since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.
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The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody’s report was meant to be a blueprint for reducing the disproportionate incarceration of Indigenous Australians and deaths in custody.
Without the Custody Notification Service in NSW, deaths of Indigenous people in police custody will almost certainly increase, along with the over-representation of Indigenous people in prison.
Over the past ten years, 519 people have died after contact with the police, either in custody (the great majority) or during a pursuit or another road traffic incident. Some 23 people have been shot by…
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Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Fellow Indigenous Programs, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Researcher, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, University of Technology Sydney
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Reader in Criminal and Penal Justice; Master, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice, Deputy Director, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge
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The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, UTS Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Social Research and Policy, UNSW
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Professor of Climate Justice, Queen Mary University of London
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Lecturer, The University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney
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Visiting Scholar, Criminal Justice, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Law, University of British Columbia