Sentencing of indigenous offenders in Victoria Edney, Richard 2003, Sentencing of indigenous offenders in Victoria, Law institute journal, no. 5, pp. 32-35. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Sentencing of indigenous offenders in Victoria Author(s) Edney, Richard Journal name Law institute journal Issue number 5 Start page 32 End page 35 Publisher Law Institute of Victoria Place of publication Australia Publication date 2003-05 ISSN 0023-9267 Summary It is common knowledge, especially in the context of the findings of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC),' that indigenous persons are over-represented at all stages of the criminal justice system. Unfortunately, little has changed since the RCIADIC and indigenous representation in prisons throughout the states and territories of Australia remains at high levels. What has come to prominence since the RCIADIC, particularly through the findings of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission in the 1997 report Bringing Them Home, is the notion of the Stolen Generation. For practitioners with indigenous clients, an important matter that may be put in mitigation is the effect of belonging to the Stolen Generation in terms of offering not only an explanation for offending, but also in terms of submissions put forward on behalf of the client pertaining to disposition. In this context, the Victorian Court of Appeal decision in R v Fuller-Cust is an important one, particularly the dissenting judgment of Eames J. His Honour, in a persuasive and well-reasoned judgment, suggests a method of sentencing indigenous offenders that relates questions of Aboriginality, the Stolen Generation and punishment. Language eng Field of Research 180101 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Law Socio Economic Objective 970118 Expanding Knowledge in Law and Legal Studies HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2003, Law Institute of Victoria Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30002194 Document type: Journal Article Collection: Law   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Mon, 07 Jul 2008, 08:17:55 EST Mon, 12 Jul 2010, 09:39:33 EST Mon, 12 Jul 2010, 09:40:39 EST Mon, 01 Jul 2013, 12:40:08 EST Mon, 01 Jul 2013, 12:40:39 EST Tue, 06 Sep 2016, 08:48:45 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 406 Abstract Views, 1 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 07 Jul 2008, 08:17:55 EST

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