Indigenous crime and settler law : white sovereignty after empire /

Indigenous crime and settler law : white sovereignty after empire /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Douglas, Heather.
Imprint:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [U.K.] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2012.
Description:	xvi, 260 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Palgrave Macmillan socio-legal studies Palgrave Macmillan socio-legal studies.
Subject:	Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc. Aboriginal Australians -- Criminal justice system. Aboriginal Australians -- Criminal justice system. Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8933103

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Other authors / contributors:	Finnane, Mark.
ISBN:	9780230316508 0230316506
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-246) and index.
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.

Table of Contents:

"Troublesome friends and dangerous enemies"
Amenable to the law
The exercise of jurisdiction
A question of custom
Equality before the law
Towards formal recognition
"Benign pessimism" : a national emergency.