| Description |
1 online resource (416 p.) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: The mass incarceration crisis -- 1. Settlers: How the criminal law came to Australia -- 2. Sovereignty: How Aboriginal law disappeared as if by magic -- 3. Solutions: How settlers 'solved' their First Nations problem in different ways at different times -- 4. Winds of Change: How the First Nations tried to get settler institutions to listen -- 5. Bending: How the settler criminal justice system began to make accommodations -- 6. Backlash: How the implications of self-determination unsettled settlers |
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7. Saviours: How settler courts and governments 'saved' First Nations women and children from First Nations cultures -- and then locked them up anyway -- 8. Incarceration: How settler justice threw up its hands and decided prison was the only answer after all -- 9. Debate: How settlers could not agree on which story to tell about Indigenous incarceration -- 10. Women: How protection isn't working much better this time around for First Nations women -- 11. Children: How the settler justice system protects and rehabilitates Indigenous kids -- 12. Justice: Who calls it a justice system anyway? |
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13. The Defenders: Why Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services are so important, and how they fail -- 14. A New Beginning: Why Settler Australia needs to acknowledge it created the problem and doesn't have the answers -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover |
| Summary |
How and why Australia's legal system fails Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people |
| Subject |
Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Australia -- History
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Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Australia.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781743822616 |
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1743822618 |
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