Indigenous Crime and Settler Law

White Sovereignty after Empire

AvH. Douglas,M. Finnane

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-08-21
Mått:155 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt:560 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies
Antal sidor:280
Upplaga:2012
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9780230316508

Utforska kategorier

Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik
Straffrätt: lagar inom Juridik

Mer om författaren

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.

Recensioner i media

"Heather Douglas and Mark Finnane expose the myth of 'perfect sovereignty' in Australia in this important book. Their meticulous historical study demonstrates that although, according to international law, the English acquired sovereignty over the entire continent upon settlement...the exertion of sovereignty and the exercise of criminal jurisdiction over Indigenous people has been, in practice, uneven, piecemeal and imperfect." - Tanya Mitchell, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, Volume 25 Number 2

Innehållsförteckning

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.