Captain Nemo wrote on Jan 14
th, 2019 at 2:13pm:
Try again:
For each year, adjusting for social background, past and present criminality and court processing factors reduced the initial baseline differences between Indigenous and non-Indigenous defendants in both jurisdictions (New South Wales and South Australia).
That study does not address so called "indigenous courts" where sentencing is much more lenient, like I said you dont have the full story and need to be more questioning.
Quote:Indigenous participation in sentencing procedures has been occurring informally in remote communities for some time. During the late 1990s, formalisation of this practice began in urban areas with the advent of Indigenous sentencing and Circle Courts. Formalisation has also occurred in remote areas. The aim has been to make court processes more culturally appropriate, to engender greater trust between Indigenous communities and judicial officers, and to permit a more informal and open exchange of information about defendants and their cases. Indigenous people, organisations, elders, family and kin group members are encouraged to participate in the sentencing process and to provide officials with insight into the offence, the character of victim-offender relations, and an offender's readiness to change.
Involvement by members of the Indigenous community in sentencing urban Indigenous offenders began in South Australia in 1999, after several years' consultation with community groups. Since then, new justice practices have been established in other jurisdictions. These are:
courts in urban centres, which set aside one to three days a month to sentence Indigenous offenders; and
practices in remote Indigenous communities when judicial officers travel on circuit.
Examples of the first kind include the Nunga and Aboriginal Courts in South Australia, the Koori Courts in Victoria, the Murri and Rockhampton Courts in Queensland, and Circle Sentencing in New South Wales. The second comprises sentencing circles in more remote parts of Western Australia and New South Wales, and Justice Groups in Queensland. There is some overlap between the two; however, the differences reflect the varied contexts of Indigenous justice practices (urban, country, remote) and the different modes of Indigenous participation in the sentencing process.
https://aic.gov.au/publications/tandi/tandi277