The #Ubuntu team! Proud to present with you at #anzsoc2019 @onsando @selbagondoza & Mamadou 🙏🏼🙏🏽🙏🏾

Such a fun night in Perth, after a wonderful 3 days of #criminology at the #anzsoc2019 conference, celebrating with @onsando @selbagondoza & Mamadou & catching up w @davemickler of @UWA_AfREC

How #BlackRhinos Basketball Club gives young people - such as leader Jamy Alex - a sense of belonging, of ‘standing for something’ & a positive sense of themselves & their future #anzsoc2019

My excellent colleagues @onsando & @selbagondoza talking about the #BlackRhinos Basketball Program, #Ubuntu & how the work of #AfriAusCare is helping reintegrate justice-involved #AfricanAustralian #youngpeople #anzsoc2019

Catharine Phillips on the rel’p bn men’s prisons, prisoners & in-prison offending in WA #anzsoc2019

Safe alternatives to stripsearching are available but yet to be embraced. WA Dept of Justice currently reviewing policy in light of these findings #anzsoc2019

“Strip searching is routine, excessive & rarely driven by intelligence”. On avge men searched 31x per year, c/f women searched on avge 11x per year. Some individuals searched 100s of times a year. 374 children searched in WA in one year, none found w contraband. #anzsoc2019

Christina Wyatt reporting on the work of WA’s Office of Inspectorate Custodial Services re #stripsearching practices in WA prisons #anzsoc2019

@HullsRob on mandatory sentencing: “It’s a disaster for victims!” Victims want voice, they want validation, they want explanation... #anzsoc2019

Wonderful Q to @HullsRob from Nyungar mother & law student on the place & need for cultural #healing centres based on Aboriginal practices. Rob says we to acknowledge the justice system’s broken & that healing centres work - of course we need them! #anzsoc2019

To reduce the scale of imprisonment we need to recognise the victimisation of so many of those imprisoned. People are rarely just ‘offenders’ - too often they are victims as well #anzsoc2019

@HullsRob’s keynote, ‘Victims Reimagined: Understanding the pathway from victim to offender’, highlighting the ‘complex & messy humanity’ of those we criminalise, punish & imprison. We need to recognise the diversity of victims & the complexity of their needs #ANZSOC2019

Winding down in 40degree Perth w @matchboxstudio after day two of #ANZSOC2019

...with Joe from the Office of the Custodial Inspectorate & Social Justice Commissioner June Oscar, AO #anzsoc2019

Abby Wild talking about #nature contact & creating #restorative spaces in prisons, to improve prison design & possibilities for stress relief and improved mental health of ppl living/working in prisons #anzsoc2019

@Eriksson_Monash on #food, power & self-actualisation in #prisons based on interviews w prisoners & prison staff in #Australia & #Norway: Preparing & sharing food #ANZSOC2019

@Eriksson_Monash talking about #food, power & self-actualisation in #prison based on interviews w prisoners & prison staff in Australia & Norway. Preparing & sharing food normalised in Norwegian prisons, never in Australian prisons: What does this communicate? #anzsoc2019

@CaroDoyle13 talking about the perils & pitfalls of doing #qualitative research with released #prisoners #anzsoc2019

@melbournepeter on reducing the scale of imprisonment thru #placebased #strengthsbased #longterm integrated multi-program intervention, ie over 10-15 years, working with the most disadvantaged communities #DOTE2015 #CrimePrevention #JusticeReinvestment #anzsoc2019

White #justice ‘solutions’ exacerbate #Aboriginal problems, reinforce colonial structures & inequality. #Aboriginal ppl need #OnCountry #healing alternatives to #prison @HarryBlagg1 #ANZSOC2019

...the kind of honesty, reflexivity & truth-telling that all us non-Indigenous criminologists & practitioners must challenge ourselves to engage in. As June Oscar urged this morning: Be honest, be brave, be confident, be courageous. #ANZSOC2019

@HarryBlagg1 reimagining #youthjustice: musing how for years he lugged #criminological tools & theories around #Aboriginal communities that not only failed to connect with Aboriginal lives but perpetuated colonial power structures & White ways of knowing... #anzsoc2019

@RaewynMutch talking about #tippingpoints & #justice #reform. And concluding how we need to understand #justice & #health as inextricably intertwined #ANZSOC2019

@SharynneHamilt1 on #youngpeople w #neurodevelopmental #disabilities: “They don’t learn from being punished. They can’t learn from being punished. Their brains don’t allow them to learn from being punished.” #ANZSOC2019

The brains of the overwhelming majority of young people in #YouthJustice are not typically developed, yet we work with them in ways that assume they are, says @hayleympassmore #anzsoc2019

Mark Halsey on the ubiquity of trauma & loss in the lives of people imprisoned through generations of their families: If we don’t address intergenerational #trauma we can’t interrupt #IntergenerationalIncarceration #ANZSOC2019

#ParoleBoard members perceive the public as homogenous, influenced by media & overly emotional in responses to parole decisions. Over half were NOT influenced by public attitudes, others felt obliged to respond to community sentiment #ANZSOC2019

Robin Fitzgerald highlighting general public support for #parole, with some ambiguity, that belies policy decision-making re hardening punitive parole & bail regimes #ANZSOC2019

Denial of the past and how it shapes the present is our national shame, Australia: “We all need to say enough. No more preventable deaths, anywhere, at any time... We are all implicated in a system of denial.” Enough. #anzsoc2019

June Oscar describes Bunuba Lore & the lore of Aboriginal communities everywhere as a ‘system of reciprocity’ that ‘entwines humanity in a system of care’ & unites communities across the globe: “I want to believe that we are creating this common humanity” #anzsoc2019