Indigenous crime and settler law : white sovereignty after empire / Heather Douglas and Mark Finnane.

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

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Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc.

Aboriginal Australians -- Criminal justice system.

1. Troublesome friends and dangerous enemies

2. Amenable to the law

3. The exercise of jurisdiction

4. A question of custom

5. Equality before the law

6. Towards formal recognition

7. Benign pessimism : a national emergency.

This text analyses the response of the criminal law in Australia to the victimization and crimes of one indigenous person against another. It is a work of history that deals with the tension between multiple socio-cultural formations in the one territory. It is the story of the legacy of Empire, misunderstanding indigenous culture, contradictions, and good intentions.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780230316508

xvi, 260 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm