Race and the Australian conscience: Investigating Aboriginal deaths in custody

Hazlehurst, Kayleen M.; Kazlehurst, Cameron

doi:10.1080/1369183x.1989.9976157

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

1989

DOI: 10.1080/1369183x.1989.9976157

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Race and the Australian conscience: Investigating Aboriginal deaths in custody

Kayleen M. Hazlehurst

Cameron Kazlehurst

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“…Furthermore the process of 'coronial review' adopted by the Royal Commission led to disenchantment within Aboriginal communities. (See Graham 1989;Hazelhurst and Hazelhurst 1989). This was aptly expressed by the Chairperson of the National Aboriginal and Islander Legal Services, Mr Paul Coe, when he criticised the interim report of the Royal Commission for failing to provide grounds to charge police and prison staff.…”

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White Man's Magic Makes Black Deaths in Custody Disappear

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Recent articles on Aboriginal deaths in custody appear to demonstrate that Aborigines and nonaborigines faced equal risks of dying in prison or police lockup over the period 1980-1988. A major criticism of the argument from which this conclusion is made, is the weight it places on a census of prisoners on one particular day during the nine years. In fact figures from such censuses are highly variable. The argument also ignores important risk factors such as sex, age, and exposure to prison of an individual, as well as variations between states, between locations within states, and between times of year. Apart from not convincingly demonstrating that day-to-day risks are similar for Aborigines and nonaborigines, the approach also does not attempt to assess the probability that an individual will ultimately die in prison. Using calculations based on recent research into the recidivisim of Western Australian prisoners, we show that the latter probability, for an Aborigine in Western Australia, is likely to be of the order of three or more times that of a nonaborigine. Such a disproportion may not be accounted for entirely by the over-representation of Aborigines in custody.

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White Man's Magic Makes Black Deaths in Custody Disappear

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1990

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