Australia: Indigenous Sentencing Courts And Partner Violence: Perspectives Of Court ...

Australia: Indigenous Sentencing Courts And Partner Violence: Perspectives Of Court Practitioners And Elders On Gender Power Imbalances During The Sentencing Hearing Elena Marchetti, 2010   One of the most common forms of violence in Indigenous communities is violence between intimate partners. Indigenous sentencing courts and specialist family violence courts (as well as mainstream courts) are used in Australia to sentence Indigenous partner violence offenders. Currently, there are over...

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