Description |
xxiii, 248 pages ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
Series |
A GlassHouse book |
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GlassHouse book.
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Contents |
1.Introduction to Indigenous representations in criminal sentencing -- 2.Historicizing colonial and postcolonial Indigenous crime and punishment -- 3.Decolonizing Indigenous crime statistics -- 4.Sentencing away culture and customary marriage -- 5.Traditional punishment in the new punitiveness -- 6.Sentencing anxieties over ̀degenerates, drunks and criminals' -- 7.Sentencing Indigenous rioters as if the racism never occurred -- 8.Conclusion: transforming Indigenous recognition |
Summary |
Indigenous people, crime and punishment examines criminal sentencing courts' changing characterizations of Indigenous peoples' identity, culture and postcolonial status. Focusing largely on Australian Indigenous peoples, but drawing also on the Canadian experiences, Thalia Anthony critically analyzes how the judiciary have interpreted Indigenous difference |
Analysis |
Aboriginal crime |
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Aboriginal culture |
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Aboriginal justice |
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Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders |
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Australian |
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Cases (Law) |
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Criminal justice |
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Criminal procedure |
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Australia |
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Legal standing |
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Legislation |
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Punishment |
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Sentencing |
Notes |
"a GlassHouse book"--Cover |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Also issued online |
Subject |
Boney, Lloyd, 1958-1987
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Doomadgee, Mulrunji, 1968-2004
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Fernando, Stanley
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Kriewaldt, Martin, 1900-1960
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Aboriginal Australians -- Criminal justice system.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Australia.
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Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Australia.
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Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Canada.
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Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- New Zealand.
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Jurisprudence -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Prison sentences -- Australia -- Statistics.
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Sentences (Criminal procedure)
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Sentences (Criminal procedure) -- Australia -- History.
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Sentences (Criminal procedure) -- Australia.
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Genre/Form |
Statistics.
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LC no. |
2013427619 |
ISBN |
9780415668446 |
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9780415831598 |
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