Our Youth, Our Way

This submission makes 9 overarching recommendations to reduce the over-representation of Aboriginal children in the youth legal system. These recommendations are premised on the understanding that massive inequality exists not because Aboriginal children commit more crimes, but because of the operation of discriminatory laws and policies that result in Aboriginal children being targeted by police, stigmatised and harmed by contact with the system and subsequently denied culturally relevant and community based supports.

Read the Human Rights Law Centre’s submission to the inquiry into the overrepresentation of Aboriginal children and young people in youth justice (31 October 2019)