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Homelessness Service Usage Patterns of 30,000 Homeless and At‐Risk Households: The Melbourne Access Point Study

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the last three decades, overseas researchers have utilised administrative data to identify distinct patterns in shelter use. In Australia, the use of administrative data to understand service utilisation patterns among people ‘at risk’ of homelessness and experiencing homelessness is limited.
Godwin Kavaarpuo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Historical reasoning about Indigenous imprisonment: a community of fate? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The high rate of Indigenous incarceration is a problem for public policy and therefore for historical and social analysis. This paper compares and contrasts two recent attempts at such analysis: Thalia Anthony’s Indigenous People, Crime and Punishment ...
Tim Rowse
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Trauma‐Informed Practice in Welfare‐to‐Work and Employment Services: A Scoping Review

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is increasing recognition within welfare services, including employment services, that many participants may have histories of trauma. Research suggests that experiences of trauma not only impact individuals' psychosocial health but also vocational elements such as job performance, employability, career progression, and financial ...
Emily Corbett   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Don't Worry About Her; Intersectionality, and the Role of Systems and Structures in the Embodied Experiences of Young Women's Use of Violence

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Systems and structures designed to protect and support young people, specifically (in this paper) young women, are ironically the same systems that maintain gender disparity. Consequently, this has influenced the embodied identities of young women who experience and use violence. Such systemic and structural intersectionality has impacted upon
Louise Rak   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Imprisonment of Female Urban and Rural Offenders in Victoria, 1860-1920

open access: yesInternational Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2019
This paper examines imprisonment data from Victoria between 1860 and 1920 to gather insights into the variations in incidence of women being convicted by rural versus urban courts, including close focus on the difference in types of offences being ...
Victoria Nagy, Alana Piper
doaj   +1 more source

Compounded Disadvantage: Race, Incarceration, and Wage Growth [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Based on 14-year panel data on ex-prisoners, this paper reports the impact of incarceration on future job prospects. Black men, in addition to facing greater risk of ending up in prison, are more negatively affected by imprisonment than white men.
Becky Pettit, Christopher J. Lyons
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
wiley   +1 more source

‘Somewhere We Can Call Home and…Be Normal’: Findings From the Justice Housing Programme Evaluation

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The relationship between homelessness or unstable housing and reincarceration is well documented. The initial month after a person is released from custody is a period of particular vulnerability, with an increased risk of homelessness and return to prison.
Helen Taylor, Lorana Bartels
wiley   +1 more source

Examining the Impact of Domestic and Family Violence on Young Australians’ School‐Level Education

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian policy and practice increasingly acknowledges the need to respond to children as victim‐survivors of domestic and family violence (DFV) in their own right. As part of this, and in recognition that schools often have the most consistent contact with young people experiencing DFV, there is mounting recognition of the role education ...
Rebecca Stewart   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Right of convicted persons to visits by members families and making contacts outside the prison institution [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova: Pravni Fakultet u Novom Sadu
The modern system of execution of the prison sentence, unlike the first classical systems of execution of this sentence, is based on the principles of individualization, resocialization and humane treatment of convicted persons.
Milić Ivan D., Grujić Zdravko V.
doaj   +1 more source

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