Indigenous participation in the Western Australian Diversion Project evaluation – Barriers and strategies to participation in adult court diversion programs: Final report

Indigenous participation in the Western Australian Diversion Project evaluation – Barriers and strategies to participation in adult court diversion programs: Final report Report

• Author(s): Strategic Edge Consulting Australia
• Published: 2009
• Publisher: Drug and Alcohol Office, Western Australia

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Abstract: In Western Australia, Aboriginal people comprise approximately 24% of offences and 18% of all offenders appearing in the Western Australian Magistrates Courts. The high rate of Indigenous contact with the justice system is generally a reflection of the high rate of Indigenous involvement in crime. Research on the relationship between substance use and crime is overwhelmingly supportive of the hypothesis that alcohol and other drugs (AOD) use increases the risk of involvement in crime. Illicit drug use increases the rate of involvement in crime, at least in part because of the high costs associated with funding illicit drug use. The current evaluation focuses on the following adult court drug diversion programs that are part of the WADP: the Pre-Sentence Opportunity Program (POP), Indigenous Diversion Program (IDP) and the metropolitan and regional Supervised Intervention Treatment Regime (STIR).

• Urls: https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20140214174829/https://www.aihw.gov.au/closingthegap/ItemDetails.aspx?id=10213&type=ac
• Publisher Location: Perth