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• Title:Indigenous crime and settler law : white sovereignty after empire / Heather Douglas and Mark Finnane.
  
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• Author/Creator:Douglas, Heather.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Finnane, Mark.
  
• Published/Created:Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [U.K.] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2012.
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: KU519.I64 D68 2012
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Aboriginal Australians--Legal status, laws, etc.
  Aboriginal Australians--Criminal justice system.
  
• Description:xvi, 260 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
  
• Series:Palgrave Macmillan socio-legal studies.
  
• Summary:"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"--Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-246) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780230316508
  0230316506
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. `Troublesome Friends and Dangerous Enemies'
  White and black
  Custom and jurisdiction
  `Their private broils'
  Towards intervention
  Conclusion
  2. Amenable to the Law
  Contesting jurisdiction
  Consolidating jurisdiction
  Transforming the subjects of law
  Witnessing
  Remnants of jurisdiction
  3. Exercise of Jurisdiction
  Aboriginal suspects and witnesses
  the logistics of justice
  Protection, security and the control of settler violence
  meaning of `custom'
  Conclusion
  4. Question of Custom
  ordeal of Wongacurra
  Anthropology and government
  limits of intervention
  opacity of custom
  failure of institutional innovation
  Absentee justice?
  5. Equality before the Law
  Assimilation
  law is settled
  Patrol officers: failing to charge
  Criminal responsibility
  Sentencing
  Aboriginal people between two worlds
  Critical shifts
  6. Towards Formal Recognition
  Contesting sovereignty
  ambivalence towards formal recognition
  Recognition in the courts
  Criminal responsibility
  Procedural matters
  Evidence of custom
  Bail and sentencing: considering `the Aboriginal way'
  effects of recognition in the courts
  Conclusion
  7. `Benign Pessimism': A National Emergency
  refusal of formal recognition
  Multiculturalism and the Racial Discrimination Act
  Women, harm, legal protection and human rights
  Violence and its relationship to colonization
  Intervention
  And still the possibility of continued recognition.