Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651052to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black Lives, White Law: Locked Up and Locked Out in Australia Author: Russell Marks Narrator: David Soncin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 1 minute Release date: January 4, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: How and why Australia's legal system fails Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people Indigenous Australians are the most incarcerated people on the planet. Indigenous men are fifteen times more likely to be locked up than their non-Indigenous counterparts; Indigenous women are twenty-one times more likely. Featuring vivid case studies and drawing on a deep sense of history, Black Lives, White Law explores Australia's extraordinary record of locking up First Nations people. It examines Australia's system of criminal justice – the web of laws and courts and police and prisons – and how that system interacts with First Nations people and communities. How is it that so many are locked up? Why have imprisonment rates increased in recent years? Is this situation fair? Almost everyone agrees that it's not. And yet it keeps getting worse. In this groundbreaking book, Russell Marks investigates Australia's incarceration epidemic. What would happen if the institutions of Australian justice received the same scrutiny to which they routinely subject Indigenous Australians? ‘Such a powerful and compelling exposé of how the so-called justice system actually does absolutely nothing for either offenders or victims.' - OLGA HAVNEN ‘Russell Marks' book is a timely reminder that law is politics and that it is seared into the bodies of First Nations people.' - KATE AUTY

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