Indigenous Crime and Settler Law

White Sovereignty After Empire
2012. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-230-31650-8
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies

In a break from the contemporary focus on the law's response to inter-racial crime, the authors examine the law's approach to the victimization of one Indigenous person by another. Drawing on a wealth of archival material relating to homicides in Australia, they conclude that settlers and Indigenous peoples still live in the shadow of empire.

Zielgruppe

Lower undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Douglas, H.

Finnane, M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Histories.- 'Troublesome Friends and Dangerous Enemies'.- Amenable to the Law.- The Exercise of Jurisdiction.- A Question of Custom.- Equality Before the Law.- Towards Formal Recognition.- 'Benign Pessimism': A National Emergency.- Conclusion: Sovereignties.

Über Autor(innen)

HEATHER DOUGLAS is a professor at the TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
 
MARK FINNANE is ARC Australian Professorial Fellow and Chief Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security, Griffith University, Australia.