JSB173 Final: JSB173 Week 9 Exam Revision
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The prison population in australia is predominately made of males, with only around. However, with an increasing prison population has also come a rapidly increasing rate of female incarceration greater than the rate of male incarceration. This may be explained at least in part by the increasing seriousness of the crimes that women are committing. According to health surveys, women prisoners are a high needs group compared to non-incarcerated women, with high susceptibility to substance abuse, mental health issues and infectious diseases. Indigenous women are more likely to be incarcerated than non-indigenous women. Women"s prisons are smaller than regular prisons and fewer in numbers. Additionally, they appear to operate differently as well. Indigenous people are grossly over-represented in our prison populations and are around ten times more likely to be imprisoned than non-indigenous counterparts and around seventeen times more likely to be on remand in custody. Indigenous sentenced prisoners tend to be younger than those who are not indigenous.
