Indigenous Perpetrators of Violence: Prevalence and Risk Factors for Offending

Wundersitz, Joy

doi:10.1037/e582902012-001

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“…Outcomes to date in South Australia include the development of a draft South Australian Coronial Domestic Violence Investigation Framework (hereafter the Framework), which is underpinned methodologically by the application of an Ecological Systems Approach (Wundersitz, 2010) …”

Section: South Australiamentioning

confidence: 99%

The Implementation of Domestic Violence Death Reviews in Australia

Bugeja

Butler²,

Buxton³

et al. 2013

Homicide Studies

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In Australia, a significant proportion of homicides occur in a domestic context, many following an identifiable history of domestic violence. For this reason, many domestic violence homicides are considered to be preventable. Sector advocacy and policy reform has reframed domestic violence as a serious social issue. In keeping with international trends, domestic violence death review teams have been introduced in Australia. These review teams examine domestic violence homicides to identify systemic gaps in service responses to prevent future deaths. This article describes the operational Australian domestic violence death review teams and the Australian Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Network.

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Section: South Australiamentioning

confidence: 99%

The Implementation of Domestic Violence Death Reviews in Australia

Bugeja

Butler²,

Buxton³

et al. 2013

Homicide Studies

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“…The relationship between alcohol consumption and violence is well established, [13][14][15] and violence is linked with excessive alcohol consumption in Indigenous communities, often extending beyond drinkers to nonconsumers (bystanders, women and children). 2,16 Our 2008 study using Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) data reported a 52% decline in serious injury in the 2 years after the SRS was introduced in four remote communities in Cape York, Qld. 17 A government review of the SRS also found a decline in hospital admissions for assault and, to a lesser extent, for other injuries.…”

Section: Talking Policy -R Esear Chmentioning

confidence: 99%

Increasing alcohol restrictions and rates of serious injury in four remote Australian Indigenous communities

Margolis¹,

Ypinazar

Müller

et al. 2011

Medical Journal of Australia

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Objective: To document rates of serious injuries in relation to government alcohol restrictions in remote Australian Indigenous communities. Design and setting: An ecological study using Royal Flying Doctor Service injury retrieval data, before and after changes in legal access to alcohol in four remote Australian Indigenous communities, Queensland, 1 January 1996 – 31 July 2010. Main outcome measures: Changes in rates of aeromedical retrievals for serious injury, and proportion of retrievals for serious injury, before and after alcohol restrictions. Results: After alcohol restrictions were introduced in 2002–2003, retrieval rates for serious injury dropped initially, and then increased in the 2 years before further restrictions in 2008 (average increase, 2.34 per 1000 per year). This trend reversed in the 2 years after the 2008 restrictions (average decrease, 7.97 per 1000 per year). There was a statistically significant decreasing time trend in serious‐injury retrieval rates in each of the four communities for the period 2 years before the 2002–2003 restrictions, 2 years before the 2008 restrictions, and the final 2 years of observations (2009–2010) (P < 0.001 for all four communities combined). Overall, serious‐injury retrieval rates dropped from 30 per 1000 in 2008 to 14 per 1000 in 2010, and the proportions of serious‐injury retrievals decreased significantly for all four communities. Conclusion: The absolute and the proportional rates of serious‐injury retrievals fell significantly as government restrictions on legal access to alcohol increased; they are now at their lowest recorded level in 15 years.

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“…The homicide victimisation rate fluctuates, but is around six times higher for Indigenous as compared with non-Indigenous Australians (Mouzos 2001: 2). The rate of Indigenous women who experience domestic violence is also significantly higher (Memmott et al 2001, AlYaman et al 2006Wundersitz 2010). Finally, child abuse is almost eight times the average for Indigenous compared to non-Indigenous children (AIHW 2013: 24).…”

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confidence: 94%

Deconstructing Criminology’s Origin Stories

Carrington

Hogg

2017

Asian Criminology

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The global production of knowledge is grossly skewed to the northern Anglophone world (Hogg et al. in International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 6(1), 1-7, 2017;Connell 2007). It should be no surprise therefore that criminology's origin stories are derivative of northern experiences, yet generalised as universal theories of crime causation. In this article, we argue that the origin stories of criminological theory translated the 'darker', 'hairier' and 'muscular' masculinities of the global south into prototypes of dangerousness. These prototypes were first articulated as scientific claims in the nineteenth century works of Lombroso, but have been refined and embedded in mainstream criminological discourses well into the present, mainly through the quantitative study of social disorganisation, 'race' and racialised masculinities as variables in crime causation. The paper concedes that while deeply troubling expressions of violent masculinity exist now and in the past in the global south, it is mistaken to conceive this violence simply as expressions of atavism or social disorganisation associated with a less civilised world. On the contrary, this paper argues that the violence of colonality itself has had, and continues to have, a criminogenic impact on the present.

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Indigenous Perpetrators of Violence: Prevalence and Risk Factors for Offending

Cited by 33 publications

References 24 publications

The Implementation of Domestic Violence Death Reviews in Australia

The Implementation of Domestic Violence Death Reviews in Australia

Increasing alcohol restrictions and rates of serious injury in four remote Australian Indigenous communities

Deconstructing Criminology’s Origin Stories

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