1st Edition

Common Law and Colonised Peoples Studies in Trinidad and Western Australia

By Jeannine M. Purdy Copyright 1997
321 Pages
by Routledge

321 Pages
by Routledge

321 Pages
by Routledge

Published in 1997. It is well known in Australia that Aboriginal people are currently massively over-represented amongst the prison population. Although it is not officially acknowledged to the same degree in Trinidad, it is also well-known that Afro-Trinidadians are over-represented in the prisons of that county. The disproportionate criminalisation of Aboriginal Australians and... Read more

1. Introduction  Part 1: Theory, Methodology and All That  2. Theory  3. Methodology  4. Other Matters  Part 2: Contemporary Criminalisation  5. Criminalisation in Contemporary Trinidad  6. Criminalisation in Contemporary Western Australia  Part 3: Law, Violence and Economics  7. Law  8. Violence  9. Economics  10. Conclusion

Biography

Jeannine M. Purdy