1st Edition
Conflict, Politics and Crime Aboriginal Communities and the Police
By Chris Cunneen
Copyright 2001
320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
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Aboriginal people are grossly over-represented before the courts and in our gaols. Despite numerous inquiries, State and Federal, and the considerable funds spent trying to understand this phenomenon, nothing has changed. Indigenous people continue to be apprehended, sentenced, incarcerated and die in gaols. One part of this depressing and seemingly inexorable process is the behaviour of police.... Read more
Acknowledgments
List of acronyms
List of tables
1. Introduction
2. The criminalisation of indigenous people
3. The nature of colonial policing
4. From over-policing to zero tolerance
5. Terror, violence and the abuse of human rights
6. Police culture and the use of discretion
7. Policing indigenous women
8. Governance and the policing of contested space
9. The reform of policing policies
10. Policing and postcolonial self-determination
Conclusion
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
List of acronyms
List of tables
1. Introduction
2. The criminalisation of indigenous people
3. The nature of colonial policing
4. From over-policing to zero tolerance
5. Terror, violence and the abuse of human rights
6. Police culture and the use of discretion
7. Policing indigenous women
8. Governance and the policing of contested space
9. The reform of policing policies
10. Policing and postcolonial self-determination
Conclusion
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
Biography
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).
