This is the Justice and Equity Centre's Submission to the Inquiry of the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Reference Committee into Australia's youth justice and incarceration system.

Justice and Equity Centre, 'Submission to the Inquiry into Australia's youth justice and incarceration system' (Submission, 10 October 2024)

The law gives police the power to stop and search people and says how those searches must occur. In some circumstances this can include strip searches or searches under Firearm Prohibition Orders. Aboriginal and young people are disproportionately subject to these searches.

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Justice and Equity Centre, 'Submission to the Inquiry into Australia's youth justice and incarceration system' (Submission, 10 October 2024)

Pre-emptive policing: Police searches