Community Resources
Resources
Just Reinvest NSW advocates for systemic changes that build safer and stronger communities. We work alongside Aboriginal communities to support place-based, community-led and data driven approaches to inform local solutions, such as devising local ‘justice circuit-breakers’.
JRNSW Data HUB
What are the costs involved when Aboriginal people move through the justice system?Calculating the Aboriginal criminal justice cost gap in NSW requires an examintaion of the costs associated with police contact, remand, court appearances and incarceration for both adults and young people.
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JRNSW pathway to change
The JRNSW Pathway to Change provides a “blueprint” for Aboriginal communities to understand the different phases of engaging in a justice reinvestment approach to overincarceration. Supported all the way through the process there are five stages in which a community must succeed in implementing if they are to see true change and transformation. There are also four stages in which JRNSW can support communities through a process of ongoing learning through data measurement and evaluation; and support in setting up the necessary structures to implement JR strategies.
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justice reinvestment
explained
Watch the following videos to see how justice reinvestment works to bring systemic changes that can build safer and stronger communities. The justice reinvestment approach in Aboriginal communities can help build on self-determination and support place-based, community-led and data driven approaches to inform local solutions to overincarceration, such as devising local ‘justice circuit-breakers’.
Why do we need community-led solutions to aboriginal over imprisonment?
Watch this video to learn why we need community-led solutions to Aboriginal overimprisonment. Aboriginal communities have the solutions because they have a right to self-determination: the right to shape their own lives. Aboriginal communities want data sovereignty, meaning access to data about them in relation to people, to country, to land, to waters, to stories, to culture, to connection and in relation to resources. When an Aboriginal community determines what is measured and why, they are empowered to collect their stories, and a way to speak their truth and advocate for solutions
what is a justice reinvestment mechanism and how does it work?
This video explains that a ‘reinvestment mechanism’ is a government financing mechanism that makes financial resources available to communities for justice reinvestment. This means governments may pay a levy or monies from a fund to communities that is calculated based on the number of Aboriginal people incarcerated in NSW. The resources generated are then spent in areas where Aboriginal communities determine needs more support, and on what will be felt by those most impacted.
How do you measure the cost-benefit of a justice reinvestment mechanism?
This video explains how the cost of doing ‘business as usual’ in justice responses that result in high rates of incarceration, will continue to exacerbate social drivers of offending, such as homelessness and poor health. We know this can lead to a cycle that undermines and dismantles cohesion in our communities. Evidence points to early intervention and prevention successfully addressing the drivers of offending. A justice reinvestment approach will deliver benefits in community and should therefore form part of any cost-benefit analysis. Upfront financial commitments in justice reinvestment saves the government money; and it ‘makes’ money as the number of Aboriginal prisoners reduces.
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History and concept of JR
Read about where the concept of Justice Reinvestment came from and how it was adopted by Indigenous communities in Australia.
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Data links and the
data locator tool
All the publicly available data links relevant to Aboriginal communities in New South Wales can be found here at the Data Hub..
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