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This book reflects multidisciplinary and cross-jurisdictional
analysis of issues surrounding Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
(FASD) and the criminal justice system, and the impact on
Aboriginal children, young people, and their families. This book
provides the first comprehensive and multidisciplinary account of
FASD and its implications for the criminal justice system - from
prevalence and diagnosis to sentencing and culturally secure
training for custodial officers. Situated within a 'decolonising'
approach, the authors explore the potential for increased diversion
into Aboriginal community-managed, on-country programmes, enabled
through innovation at the point of first contact with the police,
and non-adversarial, needs-focussed courts. Bringing together
advanced thinking in criminology, Aboriginal justice issues, law,
paediatrics, social work, and Indigenous mental health and
well-being, the book is grounded in research undertaken in
Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. The authors argue for the
radical recalibration of both theory and practice around diversion,
intervention, and the role of courts to significantly lower rates
of incarceration; that Aboriginal communities and families are best
placed to construct the social and cultural scaffolding around
vulnerable youth that could prevent damaging contact with the
mainstream justice system; and that early diagnosis and assessment
of FASD may make a crucial difference to the life chances of
Aboriginal youth and their families. Exploring how, far from
providing solutions to FASD, the mainstream criminal justice system
increases the likelihood of adverse outcomes for children with FASD
and their families, this innovative book will be of great value to
researchers and students worldwide interested in criminal and
social justice, criminology, youth justice, social work, and
education.
This book reflects multidisciplinary and cross-jurisdictional
analysis of issues surrounding Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
(FASD) and the criminal justice system, and the impact on
Aboriginal children, young people, and their families. This book
provides the first comprehensive and multidisciplinary account of
FASD and its implications for the criminal justice system - from
prevalence and diagnosis to sentencing and culturally secure
training for custodial officers. Situated within a 'decolonising'
approach, the authors explore the potential for increased diversion
into Aboriginal community-managed, on-country programmes, enabled
through innovation at the point of first contact with the police,
and non-adversarial, needs-focussed courts. Bringing together
advanced thinking in criminology, Aboriginal justice issues, law,
paediatrics, social work, and Indigenous mental health and
well-being, the book is grounded in research undertaken in
Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. The authors argue for the
radical recalibration of both theory and practice around diversion,
intervention, and the role of courts to significantly lower rates
of incarceration; that Aboriginal communities and families are best
placed to construct the social and cultural scaffolding around
vulnerable youth that could prevent damaging contact with the
mainstream justice system; and that early diagnosis and assessment
of FASD may make a crucial difference to the life chances of
Aboriginal youth and their families. Exploring how, far from
providing solutions to FASD, the mainstream criminal justice system
increases the likelihood of adverse outcomes for children with FASD
and their families, this innovative book will be of great value to
researchers and students worldwide interested in criminal and
social justice, criminology, youth justice, social work, and
education.
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