Closing the (incarceration) gap: assessing the socio-economic and clinical indicators of indigenous males by lifetime incarceration status

Abstract Background Approximately 1 in 5 to 1 in 6 Indigenous Australian males are currently imprisoned or have previously been imprisoned. Recent work has also pointed to a widening socio-economic gap within the Indigenous population. Given the myriad social, wellbeing and environmental risk factor...

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Published in:	BMC Public Health
Main Authors:	Stephane M. Shepherd, Ben Spivak, Linda J. Ashford, Isabel Williams, Justin Trounson, Yin Paradies
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	BMC 2020-05-01
Subjects:	Indigenous Australians Closing the gap Risk factors for offending Incarceration Aboriginal
Online Access:	http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-020-08794-3