Women's Legal Service (SA) Inc., Taken In: When Women with Dependent Children are Taken into Custody: Implications for Justice and Welfare, Adelaide Institute of TAFE, Adelaide, 2000.
2.
Case studies used in this article are taken from the research conducted for the Taken In project. Interviews were conducted with 15 women and with representatives from key agencies in the criminal legal and social welfare sectors. See Women's Legal Service (SA) Inc., ref 1, above
3.
Most of the women interviewed were or had been in the prison system. There are no official statistics relating to the numbers of women in prisons who have dependent children, but unofficial estimates from those working in the system suggest that the figure is around 70%.
4.
NaffineNgaire, Feminism & Criminology, Allen & Unwin, 1998, p.8.
5.
GraycarRegina, ‘Legal Categories and Women's Work: Explorations for a Cross-doctrinal Feminist Jurisprudence’, Women & the Law Conference, Australian Institute of Criminology, Sydney, 1991; GraycarRegina and MorganJenny, The Hidden Gender of Law, Federation Press, 1992.
6.
Women's Legal Service (SA) Inc., ref. 1, above, pp.33–45.
7.
WalkerJohn and McDonaldDavid, The Over-Representation of Indigenous People in Custody in Australia, Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra, Trends & Issues paper no. 47, 1995, p.2. Walker and McDonald provide 1993 statistics which indicate that the rate at which Aboriginal people in South Australia were held in Police custody was 20.9 times the rate for non-Aboriginal people.
8.
Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, Commonwealth Government of Australia, Canberra, 1991.
9.
Developmental Crime Prevention Consortium, Pathways to Prevention: Developmental and Early Intervention Approaches to Crime in Australia, National Crime Prevention Unit, Canberra, 1999.
