Arresting Incarceration

Despite sweeping reforms by the Keating government following the1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, the rateof Indigenous imprisonment has soared. What has gone wrong?In Arresting incarceration, Dr Don Weatherburn charts the eventsthat led to Royal Commission. He also argues that past effortsto reduce the number of Aboriginal Australians in prison havefailed to adequately address the underlying causes of Indigenousinvolvement in violent crime; namely drug and alcohol abuse, childneglect and abuse, poor school performance and unemployment.