Western Australia: Indigeneity And The Judicial Decision To Imprison: A Study Of Western ...

Western Australia: Indigeneity And The Judicial Decision To Imprison: A Study Of Western Australia's Higher Courts Christine E. W. Bond, and Samantha Jeffries, 2011   Internationally, sentencing research has largely neglected the impact of Indigeneity on sentencing outcomes. Using data from Western Australia's higher courts for the years 2003–05, we investigate the direct and interactive effects of Indigenous status on the judicial decision to imprison. Unlike prior research on...

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