Disparities in Aust. sentencing noted
NZPA-AAP Adelaide Urgent action was needed to sort out an “amazing disparity” between the imprisonment rates of Aboroginals, which were 16 times higher than whites, said the director of the Australian Institute of Criminology, Richard Harding. Professor Harding said that the patterns of imprisonment of Aboriginal offenders was so oppressive that the Federal Government should exercise its statutory powers immedi-
ately to create special sentencing procedures and rules in relation to Aborigines. He told the sixth national conference of the Society of Labour Lawyers in Adelaide that a sentencing council should be set up to resolve other “massive disparities” in sentencing patterns throughout Australia. The patterns varied from state to state with large differences in the lengths of sentences for the same offences and also variations in the ages of offenders being jailed.
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