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Title Aboriginal perspectives on criminal justice / edited by Chris Cunneen
Published Sydney : Institute of Criminology, Sydney University Law School, 1992

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 W'PONDS  364.349915 Cun/Apo  AVAILABLE
Description x, 94 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Institute of Criminology monograph series ; no. 1
Institute of Criminology monograph series ; no. 1
Contents Contents: Pt. 1. Aboriginal Perspectives -- 1. Aborigines and the criminal justice system -- Memories and pain -- 2. Aboriginal community and the police relations throughout New South Wales -- Rehabilitation -- 3. Aboriginal people and the criminal justice system in the 1990s -- Between the Acts -- 4. Street offences and the Summary Offences Act (1988) : social control in the 1990s -- Grandfather -- 5. Prison as a death sentence : the case of Jason David Barry -- David -- 6. Aboriginal women and the law -- Deaths in custody -- Pt. 2. Commentaries -- 7. Aboriginal people and the criminal justice system -- 8. The recognition of Aboriginal customary laws : an overview -- 9. Policing and aboriginal communities : is the concept of over-policing useful? -- Appendix. Aboriginal people in custody
Summary Contains papers by Aboriginal people - Pat OShane, Evelyn Crawford, Bill Craigie, Kevin Kitchener, Jason Behrendt, Sharon Payne - and commentries by Hal Wootten, James Crawford and Chris Cunneen; papers annotated separately; also contains poem by Cec Fisher, Burraga Gutya, Cherie Imalah
Analysis Aboriginal customary law
Aborigines
Criminal justice
Deaths in custody
Policing
Notes Includes bibliographical references
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Crime
Aboriginal Australians -- Criminal justice system.
Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Australia.
Author Cunneen, Chris, 1953-
University of Sydney. Institute of Criminology.
LC no. 93201992
ISBN 086758565X