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Western Australia’s prison population has the highest rate of Aboriginal over-representation in A... more Western Australia’s prison population has the highest rate of Aboriginal over-representation in Australia.
Research on the criminogenic effect of imprisonment suggests that the use of imprisonment as a deterrent
to future offending is not empirically supported and that imprisonment may in fact contribute to further
offending. Consequently, this article explores theoretical debates surrounding penality as a way to
inform alternative crime control strategies to imprisonment. It will be argued that any strategy to reduce
Aboriginal imprisonment rates could benefit from a perspective that views Aboriginal imprisonment as
a manifestation of Aboriginal resistance to settler colonial dominance.
Western Australia’s prison population has the highest rate of Aboriginal over-representation in A... more Western Australia’s prison population has the highest rate of Aboriginal over-representation in Australia.
Research on the criminogenic effect of imprisonment suggests that the use of imprisonment as a deterrent
to future offending is not empirically supported and that imprisonment may in fact contribute to further
offending. Consequently, this article explores theoretical debates surrounding penality as a way to
inform alternative crime control strategies to imprisonment. It will be argued that any strategy to reduce
Aboriginal imprisonment rates could benefit from a perspective that views Aboriginal imprisonment as
a manifestation of Aboriginal resistance to settler colonial dominance.