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Pronunciation: /ˈrəmər/
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Indigenous Settlements of Australia
Australia: State of the Environment Second Technical Paper Series (Human Settlements), Series 2
Dr Paul Memmott and Mark Moran
Department of the Environment and Heritage, 2001
- Introduction
- The Indigenous Settlement Literature
- The Distribution of the Indigenous Population
- Indigenous Population Change, Migration and Mobility
- Indigenous Households
- Indigenous Settlement Types
- Characteristics of Indigenous settlements and residential spaces
- Regional Settlement Patterns
- Settlement liveability and quality of lifestyle
- Some Emerging and Ongoing Indigenous Settlement Issues
- Conclusion
- Indigenous Settlements - data gaps and research needs
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- Bibliography
This report was prepared by Dr Paul Memmott and Mark Moran of the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre, University of Queensland. The views it contains are not necessarily those of the Commonwealth, State or Territory Governments. The Commonwealth, which includes the Australian State of the Environment Committee, does not accept responsibility in respect of any information or advice given in relation to or as a consequence of anything contained herein. The copyright for the use of the images has been granted to the authors.
When Australia was initially colonized, Indigenous people were distributed over most of the continent and its surrounding islands. Colonization and successive governments brought widespread population decimation, displacement from land, forced migrations, concentration into specially established reserves, and imposed institutional changes upon Indigenous peoples. Despite this history of forced colonization and assimilation, Indigenous Australians today remain distributed across much of the continent and residing in various types of settlements in a very different way from non-indigenous Australians. Their societies display quite distinct demography and settlement characteristics. From remote discrete settlements to urban enclaves within the capital cities, Indigenous Australians continue to preserve cultural autonomy and a degree of separatism which is manifest in the 'where-and-how' they live.
This paper provides a national overview of the parallel settlement system which exists across Indigenous Australia. Its aim is to provide a context for the physical planning of Indigenous settlements, one that is cognisant of the range of culturally distinct factors that contribute to the unique character of such settlements. The methodology includes an analysis of census data and a review of existing literature with support from examples and anecdotal evidence from the authors' professional experiences. Shortcomings in the existing research and data on Indigenous settlements are noted, and recommendations are made for further research.
No attempt is made in this paper to examine the traditional systems of settlement employed in pre-contact Aboriginal Australia. (The reader is referred to Memmott 1990B for an introduction to this.) Instead, the paper will commence with an overview of the literature on more contemporary Aboriginal settlements in the post-1970 era. This literature analysis will follow an established and implicit classification of Indigenous settlement types in the literature, viz a division into mission settlements, town camps, pastoral settlements, government settlements, outstations, and urban settlements. However later in this paper the authors will offer a revised taxonomy that is considered more useful in addressing the physical design of settlements; one which involves a division into 'discrete bounded settlements' and 'dispersed settlement in urban townships'. These two broad types are made up of a number of sub-types which are each described.
A number of the more outstanding physical and cultural properties of these settlements are examined viz population mobility, socio-spatial patterns and Indigenous lifestyles, as well as cultural-geographic regions. This last type of unit broadens the analysis into a consideration of Indigenous settlements at a regional scale taking into account cultural links and mobility between settlements as factors providing regional definition. An alternate regional analysis then follows which looks at the economic and historical explanations underlying the variable patterns or configurations of Indigenous settlement types across certain regions of Australia. The last part of this paper comprises an overview of Indigenous settlement liveability and quality of lifestyle, highlighting a range of current problems and future issues.
It should be noted that the term 'community' is generally avoided in this analysis as a descriptor or synonym for 'settlement'. Despite its wide usage in the literature on Indigenous Australia (eg. in documents produced by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC)), the term does not necessarily imply political unity or social cohesion as its meaning suggests. The internal social structures of some so-called 'communities' are characterized by political divisiveness and factionalism. The current authors thus feel it to be inappropriate to use the term 'community' to designate a category of settlement type.
1 Parts of this paper were originally written as a contribution to the "Australian State of the Environment Report 2001" (Simson et al 2000).


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Would you give your husband a free hall pass?
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So I watched the movie "Hall Pass" a week ago, and I thought hmmm would I give my husband a hall pass If I could get one too? To me the answer is YES ! Why Not?
If you never seen"Hall Pass" basically it's a week off marraige to do what ever you want! Meaning getting to do all the things you never could do when married.
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Zinc intake and the risk of hyperglycemia among Chinese adults: the prospective Jiangsu Nutrition Study (JIN). | |
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OBJECTIVE: To prospectively examine the associations between zinc intake, the zinc to heme iron ratio and the incidence of hyperglycemia in Chinese. METHODS: We followed 1056 healthy adults aged 20 and older from 2002 to 2007. Dietary data were collected using 3-day food record and food frequency questionnaire. Hyperglycemia was defined as fasting plasma glucose > 5.6 mmol/l. RESULTS: During the 5 years of follow-up, we documented 125 incident cases of hyperglycemia. Zinc intake alone was not associated with the risk of hyperglycemia. The zinc to heme iron ratio was inversely associated with the risk of hyperglycemia: odds ratios (OR, 95% CI) across increasing quartiles of the zinc to heme iron ratio were 1.00, 0.78(0.44-1.37), 0.40(0.19-0.83), and 0.21(0.08-0.54)(p for trend= 0.001). Adjustment for lifestyle covariates did not significantly change the associations. CONCLUSIONS: This cohort study suggests that the zinc to heme iron intake ratio was significantly associated with a decreased risk of hyperglycemia in Chinese adults. |
Z Shi; B Yuan; L Qi; Y Dai; H Zuo; M Zhou |
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Strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo): For those who like their berries big, you can't beat this smallish tree that has everything going for it. It's evergreen, and its rough, shredding, reddish bark gets twisty with age. The ivory, urn-shaped flowers come out in clusters that make them showier than they would be alone. And the strawberry-size fruit ages from yellow to red and appears at the same time as the flowers in fall and winter.
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Close enough to the falls with places for dining and grocery stores (+Wegmans) near by. They have an indoor pool which the family loved.
Rooms were a little small. ( 2 Double beds)
Staff upgraded my room for free.
The butler house was beautiful. I'm a bit confused as to why I paid the price I did on kayak.com compared to the prices on the butler houses website though. The house is clean and quiet. The owner was amazing and friendly. They suggested walking around the neighborhood to sites of interest and honestly some of the neighborhood seemed a bit ghetto.
They owners were adorable. They made every effort to make us feel welcome!
The room is nice the breakfast its good the people is nice the place is clean
The jacuzzi is no clean right when i full the water and i turn on the air things. Its come white the water
Im impressed about energetic and friendly service by hotel staff.
Breakfast could be further improved to provide some hot dishes especially with such cold winter, like ham, bacon and scrumble egg
I was just looking for a one night stay close to the falls but if I would have known how wonderful Hillcrest was I would have stayed longer. Hillcrest is so inviting, both the staff and the house its self. It's off the main road but it's so close to everything. We will definitely visit again and stay longer! The hospitality was great!
It has great vibe. Plus, the breakfasts are fantastic. The location is great as well.
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Boutique Style rooms
Rooms are small
Clean, room was a great size, close to venue
parking was a bit tricky upon arrival, but there was a valet service, which was great
clean, big, friendly, great location for going to concert at the first niagara center and finding out there is a free trolley ride.
ad said free parking and it's valet parking only at $18/day
The owner was very friendly and welcoming
The bathroom was on the small side, but that was something we had read about and expected.
The room was very clean. The family that runs it were very nice. The food put in our room the night before was a decent continental breakfast. Good wifi. Inexpensive. It had all the room we needed for 2 of us with our not spending much time there.
Room was small, the bathroom very small, especially for sitting on the toilet. The decor is old and dated.
Friendly & helpful staff, AWESOME breakfast that was well-stocked and kept clean. Great grounds. Clean motel. Laundry facilities. Highly recommend!!
Wished there was an indoor pool in addition to the outdoor one.
Front desk staff and break-fast was awesome...
Carpets were not clean and could sense smoking smell inside the room ...
Room was very comfortable. Breakfast wasn't extensive, but what was offered was delicious.
Walls were paper thin, it sounded like people in the hall talking were standing in the middle of your room.
Clean place, big room, comfortable beds, close to highways and falls, free breakfast.
Dinning room area needs more chairs and tables.
Pretty inexpensive; 15 miles away from the Falls
The room looks old and unkempt, the bathroom was in a pretty bad condition. Everything looks old; not a comfy bed.
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European food taste like raw old man ass, I went to Germany, Spain, And France and the food was just utter ****
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I just watched the beef i am eating go into the slaughter house not long ago, I wasn't in Europe. Pretty sure it wasn't from Europe
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musicmantrice (07/05/2013) [-]
American food tastes amazing, is it good for you? No. But it tastes incredible. If you say that then I doubt you've ever tried it
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anorselegend (07/05/2013) [-]
If you go to Germany, you go for 3 foods/drink; The Brats, the Strudel, and the Beer. Oh and maybe a little sauerkraut... And a frankfurter...
Past that, if you want to talk about **** food in Europe? The only edible things in Britain are the fish and chips.
Past that, if you want to talk about **** food in Europe? The only edible things in Britain are the fish and chips.
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imthepunkkid (07/05/2013) [-]
I have heard they put vinegar on everything in Brittian, When you use vinegar as a condiment it is time to give up
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heartlessrobot (07/06/2013) [-]
I put it on my salads, corn beef and cabbage, french fries, **** like that.
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anorselegend (07/05/2013) [-]
I have never heard of that, but I'm going to assume it has something to do with pineapples and toast?
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imthepunkkid (07/05/2013) [-]
It really didn't suit my pallet, However i eat beef in every meal (Mostly for protein) And in the countries i visited (Excluding germany) Beef was not a strong point
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cadaverbox (07/05/2013) [-]
Europe is really big on noodles and meat being an accessory food to other foods.
America is the place for meat-centered dishes.
America is the place for meat-centered dishes.
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imthepunkkid (07/05/2013) [-]
That's why i like america, And i live in the south with a lot of cattle farmers, Nothing is better then fresh Beef


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Sept. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Daimler AG and Renault SA are expanding their global cooperation to include commercial vans made in Japan as the manufacturers continue to identify new projects together.
Renault's alliance partner Nissan Motor Corp. will supply Daimler with the NV350 Urvan to be sold under its Mitsubishi Fuso brand in selected export markets, the companies said today at the International Auto Show in Frankfurt.
"We will continue to seek out new projects together that make sense for all partners," Daimler Chief Executive Officer Dieter Zetsche said at a news conference.
The manufacturers have gradually added projects to their three-year-old cooperation, which was originally focused on Stuttgart, Germany-based Daimler's Smart city cars and Mercedes-Benz delivery vans. Last year, the companies agreed to jointly develop a four-cylinder gasoline engine and to license Mercedes transmissions for Nissan's Infiniti luxury brand to be made in Mexico.
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OpenTK and other Unix OS
Posted Monday, 16 November, 2009 - 13:39 by baobab1111Project: | The Open Toolkit library |
Version: | 1.0-beta-2 |
Component: | Code |
Category: | support request |
Priority: | normal |
Assigned: | Unassigned |
Status: | closed |
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DetectUnixKernel() in some BSD OS and San OS returns a value other than 'Unix'
and openTK application doesn't run but could (I found the values: 'FreeBSD' , 'SunOS', etc)
I think it would be good to:
1. establish and enter the names of all the Unix systems on which we can run openTK
2. or maybe done any name mapping?
3. or maybe done possibility to run applications on your own risk?
Version: | 1.0-beta-1 | » 0.9.x-dev |
Status: | open | » fixed |
Thanks for reporting this issue.
I have modified the detection code so that it doesn't abort when the specific kernel name is unknown. This takes care of the immediate issue (OpenTK aborting on *BSD or Solaris) but these platforms remain completely untested.
If you have access to any of these platforms, I would appreciate some feedback and bug reports! (does OpenTK run? Any issues?)
Regarding your specific suggestions:
- establishing specific names would be possible for OpenTK 1.1+ (not possible in 1.0 as it's in feature freeze right now). If you think this would be useful, please open a feature request. :)
- name mapping - am I right in assuming you are referring to dllmaps? This can be done in time for OpenTK 1.0, as long as someone opens a bug report with the necessary mappings! (I don't have any *BSD or Solaris installations right now, so I can't do this myself)
- Done in r2525.
Version: | 0.9.x-dev | » 1.0-beta-2 |
Status: | fixed | » closed |
Closing issues fixed in 1.0 beta-2.
Excellent! I tested my program on FreeBSD and it runs smoothly (GL and input works correctly)!
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San Francisco Days after the end of World War II, an American soldier entering the wreckage of Adolf Hitler's mountain stronghold found that fierce Allied bombing had left the "Eagle's Nest" in ruins.
Hitler was dead, and other soldiers had already looted the inside of his private residence, even stripping the leather from furniture. Nearly everything of value was gone - except for the Fuhrer's globe.
"Literally, the place is all bombed out and here this globe is sitting there on the desk," said John Barsamian, now 91.
Now Barsamian is putting the artifact up for auction, along with all the military paperwork that allowed him to bring it back to the United States, including a certificate that reads "1 Global Map, German, Hitler's Eagle Nest."
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At least 90% of the prison population will at some point be released back to the community. Without the implementation of effective programs and meaningful work opportunities, inmates will continue to be released to society with the same problems which brought them into the criminal justice system. The department's intent is to create and provide programs, services and work opportunities to assist offenders under its custody and supervision in developing skills to improve societal adjustment, thus targeting problems which often cause offenders to have repeated contact with the criminal justice system. These problems include deficiencies in education, lack of marketable employment skills, life and social skills, as well as a history of substance abuse. It is the department's plan to address these issues through a process that integrates education and job training with institutional work and industrial work, to maximize the usefulness and productivity of the offender while incarcerated, under community supervision and upon release.
Data indicates that the majority of offender admissions, both incarcerated and supervised, are under 30 years of age and non-violent. Seventy-six percent (76%) of the inmates admitted to the department tested at a 9th grade level or lower, 58% of those are at or below the sixth grade level. Twenty two percent (22%) of admissions are for sale, possession or manufacture or trafficking in drugs.1
Despite the fact that Florida's prison population will continue to increase in numbers, a reduction in the rate of growth can be expected by implementation of successful programs and meaningful work assignments for those incarcerated. Some portion of this cost avoidance would be realized for several years depending on the average length of sentence that would have been received.
A possible additional source of cost avoidance is based on the deceleration of the rate of growth of the inmate population, which will allow for the construction of fewer new beds. Fewer inmates requiring incarceration would potentially save the Florida taxpayers the cost of building and staffing additional correctional facilities. These costs range from $12,700 for a work camp bed to $29,498 for single cell construction.
Other potential benefits might be realized in indirect savings to our State. Those not returning to prison may be gainfully employed, and therefore contributing to the productivity of the State and the tax base, as well as requiring fewer entitlement resources. Compared to the potential cost avoidance, the actual expenditures for programs are apt to be quite reasonable.
Finally, work assignments for inmates result in value added, cost savings, or a combination of both. Value added occurs when utilizing inmate labor to accomplish work for which budgetary funds have not been appropriated. Cost savings occurs when work is accomplished through the use of budgetary funds, but is accomplished for less through the use of inmate labor than what it would have otherwise cost had inmate labor not been utilized. In some instances funds are available to accomplish only a portion of the work required; however, through the use of inmate labor the work project is completed.In such circumstances, both value added and cost savings occur.
Department leadership is progressive and determined in its commitment to continually improve the correctional system. Top management has applied the department to the task of seeking the best management practices among any and all private/public organizations that may be adaptable for use in corrections, pilot testing those that show promise and applying proven practices throughout the system where feasible.
Public support:
Over 90% of the random sample of Florida residents surveyed by the University of Florida indicated their belief that offenders should receive education services and substance abuse treatment.
Improving education and vocational training capabilities:
Additional education positions have enabled programs to grow. Computer assisted instruction is now in place in 21 institutions. More inmates can be expected to complete their educational courses due to longer time served. The Corrections Distance Learning Network (CDLN) provides a variety of programs that were previously inaccessible to many inmates due to the lack of education staff at their institution.
Library services:
All the department's correctional institutions have operational library and law library programs, and at least one Librarian Specialist assigned to manage the delivery of services.
Comprehensive drug treatment programs:
The department operates one of the largest correctional drug treatment programs and one of the largest statewide community corrections drug treatment programs in the nation.
Chaplaincy Services:
The inmate population includes adherents of some 20-25 different religions, all of which are included in the Chaplaincy program. This successful program assists management to maintain order and build a more stable environment in prison. About 5,000 volunteers have been recruited for work in the prisons, principally to conduct crisis counseling and share life skills information with inmates.
Efficient health care services:
Recognizing that the physical and mental health of inmates is a public health as well as correctional health care concern, the department provides an efficient health care system to aggressively identify potential threats to inmate health including infectious diseases, and environmental health issues. The Office of Health Services provides about 3 million health care encounters per year for chronic illness care; health education for inmates; and varying levels of care from routine to emergency.
Comprehensive inmate work programs:
The department supports the principle that inmates should work at least 40 hours per week. The inmate work program is geared to approximate what will be expected of the inmate upon return to the community, within the context of security requirements.
Teacher Shortage:
The number of teacher positions continues to lag behind the growth of the inmate population. This is reflected in the ratio of vocational certificates and GEDs earned by inmates which, though increasing in absolute numbers, is lagging as a proportion of the population.
Program appropriateness:
Changing labor market demands require redirection of vocational programs. Future employment demands are likely to be greater in areas such as computer programming and other high tech fields rather than in traditional manual fields.
Insufficient funding resources:
Services and programs are not funded at the level of need.
Limited motivational incentives
Policies restricting traditional incentives used to motivate positive inmate behavior have created a void that affects inmate desire to participate in appropriate programs.
Impediments to inmate work programs:
Impediments to expanding meaningful work and program opportunities for inmates include funding, physical space limitations, security constraints, and restrictions on the type of work that can be performed in the correctional environment.
Litigation over law library programs:
The federal courts have not ruled that the Department's system of law libraries provides inmates with access to the courts (Hooks v. Singletary). As a result, the Department must expend significant resources to defend its law library system in litigation before the U.S. District Court, and it is still required by injunction to fund a costly attorney-assistance program at 3 institutions.
Public awareness of the DC mission:
As pointed out in the recent University of Florida survey, the public suffers from a lack of knowledge about the mission of the department regarding public safety and programs designed to contribute to a reduction of recidivism.
Lack of funding for partnership initiatives:
Funding for the Community Partnership Act have been lacking since its initial year of enactment. As a result, implementation of the initiative stalled and the effectiveness of the Safe Streets Act has suffered. Limited funding has also impeded expansion of the Community Work Squad Program, along with other obstacles such as security constraints and the availability of inmates that can be assigned to the program.
Computer technology:
Access to the INTERNET or INTRANET is a powerful educational tool providing inmate access is fully controlled. An array of CD-ROM material is available for additional enhancement of instruction. Access to educational technology would provide inmates with an incentive for institutional and post-release adjustment.
Recruitment of volunteers has the potential of increasing program effectiveness at little cost.
Crime prevention:
Participating in community outreach programs provides the department an opportunity to help build a crime avoidance culture among community youth.
Special needs supervised offenders:
Opportunities exist to assist offenders with histories of substance and alcohol abuse and/or mental health problems. These inmates are candidates for federally funded special needs programs aimed at helping them to avoid return to the correctional system and their becoming an ongoing cost to the state.
Returns on tax dollars:
Expansion of the Prison Industry and Farm and Gardening Programs, increasing the use of inmate labor under contract to outside entities, and increasing the number of facilities participating in Community Work Squad Programs will produce results that help reduce the cost of incarceration to taxpayers.
Partnerships and funding opportunities:
Partnership linkages with universities, other agencies and the private sector offer opportunities for access to additional federal dollars as well as foundation and corporate grant funds to provide more adequate support for necessary programs and activities of the Department. The newly established Foundation for Partnerships in Correctional Excellence, a direct support organization to the Florida Department of Corrections, will seek funding from various sources including foundations, corporations, government and individual memberships to assist programs and employees of the department.
Budget cuts:
Limiting resources will threaten correctional programs and opportunities to expand valuable full time work experiences for the inmate population. In times of fiscal stringency, funding for expansion of work and program opportunities takes a lower priority than security.
Potential erosion of inmate health care:
Despite aggressive cost-containment and efficiency measures, increasing inmate population and health care needs coupled with increasingly limited resources threatens the effectiveness of the health care program.
Public attitudes:
Public frustration over criminal behavior has led to punitive reactions that are manifested in sentencing policies. The net result has been restrictions on programs. If such punitive attitudes persist, the department may have to curtail programs further.
The credibility of the criminal justice system is challenged each time an offender who has been "processed" through the system commits another crime. Although this is perceived by the community as a barometer of success or failure for the (correctional system) criminal justice system, it is one which is very difficult to measure or control. An offender's success or failure upon return to the community is not under the exclusive control of the Department of Corrections, or any criminal justice agency. Once an offender is released to the community, there are tremendous pressures to revert to old behaviors and there are many variables affecting this outcome.
The Florida Department of Corrections uses the following definition to determine recidivism rates: The rate is defined as a return to prison or sentence to Community Supervision for a new crime occurring within 24 months of the offender's date of release. This definition does not designate technical violators who return to prison to complete their original sentence as recidivists. Also, some offenders will return to prison after release for a new court commitment, but the crime happened prior to their release from prison. These offenders are not counted as recidivists. Inmates who are released to another state are not included in any examination of recidivism rates. This approach is taken because these former inmates have minimal opportunity to commit a new crime in Florida and then be sentenced to prison or supervision. The source of this data is the department's Offender Based Information System. The recidivism rate is calculated for a given year by dividing the number of released inmates that recidivate by the total number of releases.
There is no standard follow-up period to use when measuring recidivism. The department selected 24 months for two reasons. First, the average time from prison release to recidivism was one year for FY 1991-92 releases, indicating that most recidivists will re-offend within two years. Second, recidivism is commonly used as an outcome measure for program evaluations or other interventions. Longer follow-up periods will result in too much time transpiring between the program or intervention and when research can indicate if recidivism is changing as a result. The 24 months follow-up period will permit identification of program inadequacies related to recidivism in a reasonable period of time.
Table 2-2 provides profile data for recidivating offenders in the study. Females consistently return at a lower rate than males, but the difference in rates has declined steadily along with the decline in recidivism rates. Burglary and robbery have the highest rates of recidivism. The recidivism rate for drug offenses has declined from 42.4% 1988-89 to 17% in 1993-94. These statistics also indicate the older an offender is at release the less likely that offender will recidivate.4
Table 2-2: Profiles of Recidivating Offenders | ||||
Demographics Characteristics | Release Year | |||
1988-89 | 1989-90 | 1990-91 | 1991-92 | |
Gender | ||||
Male | 39.2% | 35.9% | 31.9% | 27.1% |
Female | 29.7% | 27.0% | 25.1% | 21.9% |
Race | ||||
White | 24.3% | 22.9% | 21.1% | 19.0% |
Black | 48.2% | 43.2% | 38.1% | 32.1% |
Other | 17.8% | 18.3% | 19.2% | 13.9% |
Ethnicity | ||||
Hispanic | 22.4% | 20.3% | 20.6% | 18.0% |
Non-Hispanic | 39.2% | 35.8% | 31.7% | 27.1% |
Age at Release | ||||
14-20 | 46.9% | 45.8% | 40.4% | 35.4% |
21-25 | 43.0% | 38.8% | 34.8% | 29.5% |
26-30 | 40.1% | 36.2% | 32.5% | 27.7% |
31-35 | 36.8% | 33.7% | 29.6% | 25.5% |
36 + | 25.9% | 24.3% | 21.8% | 18.8% |
Prior Florida Prison Commitments | ||||
None | 31.4% | 27.1% | 24.5% | 21.2% |
One | 49.0% | 43.7% | 37.1% | 29.8% |
Two | 53.1% | 49.9% | 43.1% | 35.0% |
Three + | 55.9% | 55.1% | 48.5% | 37.7% |
Crime Type | ||||
Murder/Manslaughter | 13.3% | 14.5% | 14.3% | 14.6% |
Sexual Offenses | 13.8% | 11.7% | 12.0% | 10.9% |
Robbery | 39.2% | 34.8% | 32.3% | 27.5% |
Other Violent | 30.5% | 29.6% | 25.3% | 20.1% |
Burglary | 45.0% | 40.1% | 35.3% | 30.3% |
Theft, Forgery | 39.0% | 35.7% | 33.0% | 27.2% |
Drugs | 40.7% | 36.9% | 32.4% | 28.2% |
Weapons | 40.5% | 39.4% | 30.9% | 26.8% |
Other | 26.7% | 24.1% | 19.4% | 17.6% |
Sentence Length in Years | ||||
GE 1, LT 3 Years | 26.0% | 24.0% | 21.6% | 19.2% |
GE 3, LT 5 Years | 42.8% | 39.7% | 34.0% | 25.9% |
GE 5, LT 10 Years | 53.7% | 50.7% | 44.9% | 35.1% |
GE 10, LT 15 Years | 51.1% | 47.1% | 49.4% | 39.5% |
GE 15, LT 20 Years | 55.0% | 44.7% | 52.2% | 45.9% |
GE 21, LT 30 Years | 59.3% | 40.8% | 50.2% | 49.4% |
GE 30 Years | 54.9% | 51.9% | 47.5% | 57.3% |
Goal 2-1: To contribute to recidivism reduction by providing educational and vocational programs, and related services that maximize offenders' functional skills in order to aid in their societal and institutional adjustment.
Goal 2-2: To provide effective basic health care treatment to inmates that reduces the potential spread of disease by unhealthy inmates inside the institution and those inmates scheduled for release.
Goal 2-3: To contribute to recidivism reduction by providing institutional and community based drug treatment programs and other services that aid offenders in the avoidance of substance abuse and their successful reintegration into the community.
Goal 2-4: To provide inmates the opportunity to discover and express their religious faith while incarcerated and to aid them spiritually and practically to turn away from their criminal lifestyles.
Goal 2-5: To place inmates in work assignments that produce substantive results, reduce inmate idleness and provide opportunities to improve working skills.
Goal 2-6: To find and initiate partnerships with public or private agencies/organizations that will further fulfillment of the department's mission.


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Okay so yes these brownies have an avocado in them. I substituted the vegetable oil for an avocado for a healthier, lighter and moister brownie. They are incredible and I honestly won't go back to making them without an avocado in the future. My family couldn't tell the difference at all and we ate them all in one sitting This makes a small 9×9 pan worth, but if you want to make a lasagna pan size worth then you probably want to double the recipe.
Brownies with a Secret Avocado
- 1 California Avocado
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts(optional)
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9x9 inch baking pan.
- In a bowl, mix together the avocado, sugar, and vanilla. Beat in eggs. Combine flour, cocoa, baking powder, and salt until well blended. Stir in walnuts, if desired. Spread the batter evenly into the prepared pan.
- Bake for 20 to 25 minutes until you can stick a fork in and pull it out with no brownie mix on it. Dust with powdered sugar if you'd like.
Yes, they are green for a little bit:
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