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The Department of Critical and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University, presents Unrequited Justice - a colloquium on the criminalisation of targeted youth groups and the failures of the juvenile justice system. The keynote speakers will be Ray Jackson, President, Indigenous Social Justice Association, and Dr Sev Ozdowski, Human Rights Commissioner, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.
Unrequited Justice will address a number of critical juvenile justice and social justice issues, including:
- the racialisation of crime, with particular focus on the criminalisation of Indigenous youth and Arab-Australian youth
- the criminalisation of refugee children and youth because of Australia's policy of mandatory detention
- the criminalisation of youth with mental illness and homeless youth
- the cultural politics of media representations based on racial profiling of targeted youth groups
- issues of juvenile justice that remain unresolved and institutionally unaddressed
- practices of policing, criminalisation and incarceration of youth that result in travesties of law and justice
Date: Tuesday 30 November 2004
Admission: Free Admission. There will be an opportunity for guests to make a charitable donation
Venue: Yerbury Room, SAM Function and Conference Centre, Macquarie University
Artwork: Psychological Terror Nullius by Gordon Hookey.
Gordon's Hookey's most recent work, Paranoia Annoy Ya (2004), was exhibited at the Biennale of Sydney: On Reason and Emotion 2004.
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