Juanita Sherwood

Jul 9, 2024 | theconversation.com | Thalia Anthony |Juanita Sherwood

Since early 2023, the Northern Territory and federal governments have been trialling a range of social control measures in Alice Springs (Mparntwe) to address moral panics in relation to youth crime. The initial focus was on reinstating restrictive alcohol laws in Aboriginal communities, then more police and funding for prisons, and now curfews. Yesterday, the NT Police Commissioner announced a snap three-day curfew following violent incidents, including off-duty police officers being assaulted.

Sep 18, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Elizabeth Sullivan |Reem Zeki |Stephen Ward |Juanita Sherwood

INTRODUCTION In 2020, there were 41 060 adults incarcerated in Australian prisons, one in seven of whom were sentenced for an illicit drug offence [1]. Australia’s incarceration rate of 202 per 100 000 population [1] is one third of that in the United States (US) (639 per 100 000) [2] but higher than rates in England and Wales (173 per 100 000) [3] and Canada (104 per 100 000) [4, 5].