Annabel Stafford

Full article: Culture-bound syndromes in Aboriginal Aust ppl Aboriginal ppl experience spiritual “visits” from deceased loved ones as a normal part of grief.This is often confused with psychoses or schizophrenia. This paper provides clear distinctions tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

A narrative I keep hearing as an “argument” for locking kids up is that kids feel safer in PRISON than at home So;we should criminalise kids for being unlucky to born into circumstances in which they feel unsafe in their own homes What kind of country are we? #RaiseTheBloodyAge – at Perth, Western Australia

THREAD ON HOW TO CTG on BLACK INCARCERATION: We do not track reduction in Indigenous specific criminogenic risk factors.Why?We have yet to validate an assessment capable of predicting risk in Indigenous ppl or tools to determine the role of racism in incarceration rates 1/8

TWO more deaths in custody overnight of Indigenous ppl. I hate that Indigenous issues invariably become whataboutism in this country. The inevitable “yes but White ppl are dying just as much in custody” is always what becomes amplified 1/5

Elder Mr Ward, charged with DUI. Security company G4S drove him 4hrs to Kalgoorlie with no A/C. He was literally cooked alive in the van. The DPP decided there was no reasonable prospect of conviction. If you left your dog in a car & it was cooked alive you would be charged #BLM