Closing the (incarceration) gap: assessing the socio-economic and clinical indicators of indigenous males by lifetime incarceration status

Approximately 1 in 5 to 1 in 6 Indigenous Australian males are currently imprisoned or have previously been imprisoned. Recent work has also pointed to a widening socio-economic gap within the Indigenous population. Given the myriad social, wellbeing and environmental risk factors associated with justice-involvement, it is conceivable that incarceration may contribute to the increasing disparities found within the Indigenous population. This study aimed to explore the presence and extent of an ‘incarceration gap’ within the Indigenous population and to uncover which social factors characterise the disparity.

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Journal article

Authors

Stephane M. Shepherd, Ben Spivak, Linda J. Ashford, Isabel Williams, Justin Trounson and Yin Paradies

Publisher

BMC Public Health

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s12889-020-08794-3.pdf

Link

https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-020-08794-3

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Project contact(s)

Dr Stephane M. Shepherd

sshepherd@swin.edu.au

Researcher(s)

Dr Stephane M. Shepherd
Dr Benjamin Spivak
Dr Linda J. Ashford
Isabel Williams
Dr Justin Trounson
Professor Yin Paradies

Supporting partner(s)

Complete

Yes

Start date

Not listed

End date2020

Topic(s)

Closing the Gap focus

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Organisation(s)

Indigenous involvement

Indigenous involvement notes

Dr. Yin Paradies, an Aboriginal-Asian-Anglo Australian of the Wakaya people from the Gulf of Carpentaria. Yin is Professor of Race Relations at Deakin University, where he conducts research on racism and anti-racism as well as teaching and researching Indigenous knowledges and decoloniality. He is a radical anarchist scholar and ecological activist who is committed to understanding and interrupting the devastating impacts of modern societies.

Dr Justin Trounson identifies as being of Indigenous descent.

SS lead, co-designed and wrote the manuscript. BS co-designed the study, performed the statistical analysis, assisted with manuscript preparation and
reviewed the manuscript. LA extracted and tabulated the data, and reviewed the manuscript. IW extracted the data and reviewed the manuscript. JT assisted with manuscript preparation and reviewed the manuscript. YP reviewed the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

Closing the (incarceration) gap: assessing the socio-economic and clinical indicators of indigenous males by lifetime incarceration status

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