Chris Cunneen is Associate Professor in Criminology and Director of the Institute of Criminology, Sydney University Law School. He has published widely on Aboriginal people and the criminal justice system, and is the co-author of Indigenous People and the Law in Australia (1995) and Juvenile Justice: An Australian Perspective (1995). He co-edited Faces of Hate: Essays on the incidence and nature of hate crime in Australia (1997).

• AcknowledgmentsList of acronymsList of tables1. Introduction2. The criminalisation of indigenous people3. The nature of colonial policing4. From over-policing to zero tolerance5. Terror, violence and the abuse of human rights6. Police culture and the use of discretion7. Policing indigenous women8. Governance and the policing of contested space9. The reform of policing policies10. Policing and postcolonial self-determinationConclusionEndnotesBibliographyIndex

Chris Cunneen is Associate Professor in Criminology and Director of the Institute of Criminology, Sydney University Law School. He has published widely on Aboriginal people and the criminal justice system, and is the co-author of Indigenous People and the Law in Australia (1995) and Juvenile Justice: An Australian Perspective (1995). He co-edited Faces of Hate: Essays on the incidence and nature of hate crime in Australia (1997).

• AcknowledgmentsList of acronymsList of tables1. Introduction2. The criminalisation of indigenous people3. The nature of colonial policing4. From over-policing to zero tolerance5. Terror, violence and the abuse of human rights6. Police culture and the use of discretion7. Policing indigenous women8. Governance and the policing of contested space9. The reform of policing policies10. Policing and postcolonial self-determinationConclusionEndnotesBibliographyIndex