| Özet: | My thesis addresses the following research question: why have incarceration rates of Indigenous Australians persistently and dramatically increased despite Government policy designed to achieve the obverse outcome? As no such explanatory account exists, my enquiry is necessarily exploratory. To develop hypotheses, I supplement the Australian literature with the well-developed American literature on racialized incarceration. I then test these hypotheses at the national level in Australia, and in two state jurisdictions: New South Wales and Queensland. I do so according to a mixed methodology: first, I examine trends in the available quantitative data; secondly, I conduct a process trace of the implementation of criminal justice policy using interviews of service providers. In this manner, I use the limited data to build an initial causal explanation of the persistent increase in Indigenous incarceration rates.
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