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Indigenous crime and settler law : white sovereignty after empire / Heather Douglas and Mark Finnane.

Indigenous crime and settler law : white sovereignty after empire / Heather Douglas and Mark Finnane.
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ISBN 9780230316508
0230316506
Author Douglas, Heather (author.)
Title Indigenous crime and settler law : white sovereignty after empire / Heather Douglas and Mark Finnane.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
©2012
Description xvi, 260 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Series Palgrave Macmillan socio-legal studies
Note Includes index.
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 222-246.
Contents 1.`Troublesome Friends and Dangerous Enemies' -- 2. Amenable to the Law -- 3. The Exercise of Jurisdiction -- 4. A Question of Custom -- 5. Equality before the Law -- 6. Towards Formal Recognition -- 7. `Benign Pessimism': A National Emergency -- Conclusion: Sovereignties
Summary "In a break from the contemporary focus on the law's response to inter-racial crime, the authors examine the foundations of criminal law's response to the victimization of one Indigenous person by another. Against the changing background of settler encounters with Australian Indigenous peoples, they show that the question of Indigenous amenability to imported British criminal law in Australia was not resolved in the nineteenth century and remains surprisingly open. Through a study of the policing and prosecution of Indigenous homicide, the book demonstrates how criminal law is consistently framed as the key test of sovereignty, whatever the challenges faced in effecting its jurisdiction. Drawing on a wealth of archival and case material, the authors conclude that settlers and Indigenous peoples still live in the shadow of empire, yet to reach an understanding of each other."--Publisher.
Subjects Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc
Aboriginal Australians -- Criminal justice system
Other Authors &/or Associated Persons Finnane, Mark (author.)
Series Palgrave Macmillan socio-legal studies
Call number 342.940872 DOU
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