LLB104 Lecture 10: Lecture Notes Week 10 Part II - Access to Justice
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Assists in understanding how historical, political, legal and cultural factors may impact upon communication with aboriginal and torres strait islander peoples. What things can assist better treatment of indigenous people in the justice system. Communication intermediaries/ interpreters/ murri watch: community elders visiting at watch houses. Therapeutic, diversionary, specialist and rehabilitative approaches to justice, such as: Youth justice, drugs, mental health and indigenous specific courts (usually working within magistrates court systems) Not, building more jails (law council of australia report quotes the. Central aboriginal legal aid service told us that the expense of building a giant prison in darwin had consumed any government funding that may have been put towards reducing crime, and therefor imprisonment. Congruent behaviours, attitudes and policies that come together in a system, agency or among professionals and enable that system, agency or those professionals to work effectively in cross-cultural situations. Cross, bazron, dennis and isaacs, towards a culturally competent system of.
