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

• Main Authors: Stephane M. Shepherd (Author), Ben Spivak (Author), Linda J. Ashford (Author), Isabel Williams (Author), Justin Trounson (Author), Yin Paradies (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...