Incarceration is not the solution to problems experienced by Aborginal Austrlians.

Question

"Incarceration is not the solution to the problems experienced by Aborginal Australians." Plz help about this topic. How can i write a paragraph for it. For example one of the problems is Stolen generation , how can i related to the topic and how to write evidence. Plz helppp me. 

Answer 1

Rebecah,

Nobody can tell you how to relate to it. If you have read the material and know what happened, either you relate to it or you don't. If you don't, you still have to write about it, so you need to imagine how the people involved felt and thought at the time. Surely you can imagine how heart wrenching the separation of families was. The families who took in the children: generous, evil, risk takers, bigots? The government policy makers: were their motives pure, evil, for profit, best intentions? Whether their motives were pure or not, what would incarceration accomplish?  And within the program, there were no doubt individuals who took advantage for their own gain. Do they deserve different treatment that those who followed the rules?  Did the children who were relocated benefit or not? Does it matter? These are all things to consider. I hope this gives you some ideas.

Bryan

Answer 2

Here is a relevant fact relating to Aboriginal Australians. From 2013 to 2014, Aboriginal Australian kids were 26 times more likely to be incarcerated than their non-aboriginal counterparts. These people are still disproportionately incarcerated. Many of their children are separated from their parents. Does that really solve any problem or rather add to the problem? What happens when those children come out of the criminal justice system? Are they allowed to get an affordable education? Are they even given the tools to learn skills that will allow them to live independent lives? Are they incorporated into the system by being employed or are they left to fend for themselves? How can a system created by the people that is supposed to be for the people end up hurting the very people it is supposed to equally protect in the first place?

 

These people suffer from high rates of unemployment too and it is rather obvious that one cannot solve a problem of people who are currently not thriving in the system by incarcerating most of their youth. This may have an unintended effect of resulting in a lost generation of people who could have been productive.

 

You can do your research and write your answer using your own feeling of how these people felt, their real situation, and also write about how others looking at their situation felt. Was their problem ever solved or was this just a band-aid solution? Was the legislation having the unintended effect? Was it more punitive than restorative? If you need further help, I can give you a lesson.