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Author Purdy, Jeannine M.

Title Common law and colonised peoples : studies in Trinidad and Western Australia / Jeannine M. Purdy
Published Aldershot, England : Dartmouth Pub. ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, [1997]
©1997

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Description xii, 309 pages ; 23 cm
Series Law, social change, and development series
Law, social change, and development series.
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Theory -- 3. Methodology -- 4. Other Matters -- 5. Criminalisation in Contemporary Trinidad -- 6. Criminalisation in Contemporary Western Australia -- 7. Law -- 8. Violence -- 9. Economics -- 10. Conclusion -- App. I. Comparative Demographic Statistics -- App. II. Prison Census 1990: Trinidad and Tobago
Analysis Aborigines
Australia overseas comparisons
Blacks
Colonies
Common law
Criminal justice
Cross cultural studies
Deaths in custody
Imprisonment
Racial discrimination
Trinidad and Tobago
Western Australia
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-300) and index
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Australia -- Western Australia.
Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Common law -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Cross-cultural studies.
Common law -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Cross-cultural studies.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Cross-cultural studies.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
Discrimination in law enforcement -- Cross-cultural studies.
Discrimination in law enforcement.
Law -- Colonies -- Great Britain -- Cross-cultural studies.
LC no. 96041978
ISBN 1855219166
Other Titles Common law and colonised peoples