Difficulties in the Criminal Justice System (VCE SSCE Legal Studies): Flashcards
📚Flashcards
Practise the cards
10 cards from this deck
ShowHide
Practise the cards
10 cards from this deck
Royal Commission
Royal Commission
Highest form of inquiry w/ wide investigative powers
Intergenerational trauma
Intergenerational trauma
Psychological response to historical events passed to future gens
Customary law
Customary law
Body of norms/practices a community accepts as legal requirements
First Nations % of Australia's prison population
First Nations % of Australia's prison population
32% (despite being 3.8% of Australia's population)
Koori Court purpose
Koori Court purpose
Culturally safe space for sentencing Aboriginal offenders
Age of criminal responsibility in Victoria
Age of criminal responsibility in Victoria
Under 10 years cannot be charged with a crime
Diversion program
Diversion program
Method to redirect offenders from court, avoid criminal record
CALD meaning
CALD meaning
Born overseas in countries other than main English-speaking ones
Psychosocial disability
Psychosocial disability
Severe, long-term mental health condition preventing daily tasks
% of adult prisoners in Australia with a disability
% of adult prisoners in Australia with a disability
Approximately 50%
