LAWS 3306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Helen Betty Osborne, Australian Aboriginal Religion And Mythology, R V Marshall
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Bare a double disadvantage, they are both over represented as vicims of violence and over represented in prison. Criminalizaion of poliics - cant just deal with an issue by dealing with it using criminal law, need to look at it from diferent angles. Packers two models have not ofered much hope when dealing with aboriginal individuals. Aboriginal jusice sees that there is a connecion between the vicim and the ofender. The holisic approach within aboriginal jusice is proacive to prevent future occurrences o. You need to address past abuses sufered by the ofender and the vicim: dp and aboriginal people i. ii. Recommended that the level of representaion for aboriginal ofenders improve: donald marshall would have been beter of he plead guilty for manslaughter. Scc has in a case called tran (1994) Trial court essenially put the blame on donald marshall. The inquiry criicized the courts decision on this.