Modern Australian

representation of Australian, New Zealand and Sudan born people in Victorian crime statistics

  • Written by Terry Goldsworthy, Associate Professor in Criminology, Bond University
representation of Australian, New Zealand and Sudan born people in Victorian crime statisticsCrime and ethnicity: highly divisive issues in the state.Sharon Hahn Darlin/Flickr, CC BY-SA

One of Victoria’s most senior judges has warned the current media reporting and political rhetoric around crime committed by people from South Sudanese backgrounds in Melbourne is “dangerous” and “skewed”.

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