Decolonising Justice for Aboriginal youth with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-367-68262-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 210 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 274 g

Reihe: Criminology in Focus

This book reflects multidisciplinary and cross-jurisdictional analysis of issues surrounding Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) and the criminal justice system, and the impact on Aboriginal children, young people, and their families.

This book provides the first comprehensive and multidisciplinary account of FASD and its implications for the criminal justice system – from prevalence and diagnosis to sentencing and culturally secure training for custodial officers. Situated within a ‘decolonising’ approach, the authors explore the potential for increased diversion into Aboriginal community-managed, on-country programmes, enabled through innovation at the point of first contact with the police, and non-adversarial, needs-focussed courts. Bringing together advanced thinking in criminology, Aboriginal justice issues, law, paediatrics, social work, and Indigenous mental health and well-being, the book is grounded in research undertaken in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. The authors argue for the radical recalibration of both theory and practice around diversion, intervention, and the role of courts to significantly lower rates of incarceration; that Aboriginal communities and families are best placed to construct the social and cultural scaffolding around vulnerable youth that could prevent damaging contact with the mainstream justice system; and that early diagnosis and assessment of FASD may make a crucial difference to the life chances of Aboriginal youth and their families.

Exploring how, far from providing solutions to FASD, the mainstream criminal justice system increases the likelihood of adverse outcomes for children with FASD and their families, this innovative book will be of great value to researchers and students worldwide interested in criminal and social justice, criminology, youth justice, social work, and education.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blagg, Harry

Tulich, Tamara

Williams, Robyn

Mutch, Raewyn

Badry, Dorothy

Stewart, Michelle

Edward May, Suzie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Jugendstrafrecht, Jugenstrafvollzugsrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Magistrate Catherine Crawford and Robyn Williams

- Introduction

Tamara Tulich, Harry Blagg, Robyn Williams, Dorothy Badry, Michelle Stewart, Raewyn Mutch, Suzie Edward May

- Children, adolescents and FASD in the criminal justice system

Raewyn Mutch, Dorothy Badry, Robyn Williams, Tamara Tulich

- FASD Prevalence and Assessment

Raewyn Mutch, Tamara Tulich, Harry Blagg, Suzie Edward May

- FASD in the Courts: fitness to stand trial

Tamara Tulich

- Sentencing and courts

Suzie Edward May

- A decolonising and human rights approach to FASD training, knowledge and case practice for justice involved youth in correctional contexts

Robyn Williams, Dorothy Badry

- FASD, the criminal justice system and Indigenous people: Diversionary pathways and decolonising strategies

Harry Blagg

- FASD, Justice, Decolonisation and the Dis-ease of Settler Colonialism: Contemporary Justice Issues in Canada

Michelle Stewart

- Conclusion

Harry Blagg

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Harry Blagg is a Professor of Criminology at the University of Western Australia (UWA) Law School and Director of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and Community Justice Centre in the Law School.

Tamara Tulich is a Senior Lecturer at the UWA Law School.

Robyn Williams is a Nyoongar woman with extensive experience as a FASD trainer, advocate, and researcher. She works at the Medical School, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, and the University of Melbourne.

Raewyn Mutch is a Ngai Tahu woman of New Zealand and Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia, and Invited Faculty for the Harvard Program for Refugee Trauma, Global Mental Health, Trauma and Recovery (2019–2020).

Suzie Edward May is a Lawyer and Research Officer at the UWA Law School and a member of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and Community Justice Centre.

Dorothy Badry is a Professor in the Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary.

Michelle Stewart is an Associate Professor at the University of Regina on Treaty Four Territory.