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Youth gangs are not a matter of individual choice or criminality, but are shaped by inequality, institutional neglect and racialized perceptions that punishment alone cannot solve. (Unsplash)

How structural inequality fuels Black youth recruitment into cycles of violence

The recruitment into gangs is not simply an issue of individual criminality or policing, but the result of institutional failures and conditions that make some youth more vulnerable.
GunaiKurnai Elder Uncle Russell Mullett at entrance to Cloggs Cave, East Gippsland. Jess Shapiro, courtesy GunaiKurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation

Oldest living culture: our new research shows an Indigenous ritual passed down for 500 generations

Matching new archological findings with ethnographic records, we can show ritual fireplaces have been in continuous use for at least 12,000 years.

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