{"id":1838,"date":"2016-09-02T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T23:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/?p=1838"},"modified":"2016-09-01T11:48:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T01:48:00","slug":"heads-held-high-amnesty-international-report-on-indigenous-young-people-in-detention-in-queensland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/2016\/09\/02\/heads-held-high-amnesty-international-report-on-indigenous-young-people-in-detention-in-queensland\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Heads held high&#8221; &#8211; Amnesty International Report on Indigenous young people in Detention in Queensland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2016\/09\/Heads-held-high.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1840 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2016\/09\/Heads-held-high-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Heads held high\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2016\/09\/Heads-held-high-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2016\/09\/Heads-held-high-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2016\/09\/Heads-held-high-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2016\/09\/Heads-held-high-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amnesty.org.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amnesty International<\/a> has recently published a research report\u00a0highlighting extensive concerns and systemic issues regarding the mistreatment and over-representation of\u00a0Indigenous young people in detention in Queensland.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">CJRC researcher <a href=\"http:\/\/staff.qut.edu.au\/staff\/carringk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Kerry Carrington<\/a> from the School of Justice, Faculty of Law, attended Parliament House yesterday where the report was officially launched.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Findings from the report indicate that Indigenous children in Queensland are 22 times more likely to be detained that non-Indigenous children, with Indigenous young people making up 65% of the state&#8217;s juvenile detention population.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The report also finds that Queensland has the highest number of 10 and\u00a011-year-old children in detention in Australia, as well as being the only state to\u00a0treat 17-year-olds as adults. There is also a lack of culturally appropriate\u00a0diversionary options for Queensland children.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Over 20 recommendations have been made from the report, including the immediate removal of 17 year old offenders from adult prisons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">For more research findings and to access the full report, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amnesty.org.au\/resources\/activist\/Heads_Held_High_-_Queensland_report_by_Amnesty_International.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amnesty International has recently published a research report\u00a0highlighting extensive concerns and systemic issues regarding the mistreatment and over-representation of\u00a0Indigenous young people in detention in Queensland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":372,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9719,3,9703,9712],"tags":[15197,11573,15193,9780,11594],"class_list":{"0":"post-1838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"category-justice-policy-issues","8":"category-news","9":"category-our-research","10":"category-staff","11":"tag-amnestyinternational","12":"tag-indigenousjustice","13":"tag-juveniledetention","14":"tag-kerrycarrington","15":"tag-youthdetention"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1838"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1844,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions\/1844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}