Indigenous people, crime and punishment / Thalia Anthony.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anthony, Thalia, author.

Series:

SOCU 2019 : UO Indigenous Australians, Policing and the Criminal Justice System ; Textbook

GlassHouse book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Legal status, laws, etc--Australia.

Indigenous peoples.

Indigenous peoples--Legal status, laws, etc--Canada.

Indigenous peoples--Legal status, laws, etc--New Zealand.

Sentences (Criminal procedure).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 248 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<P><EM>Indigenous People, Crime and Punishment</EM> examines criminal sentencing courts' changing characterisations of Indigenous peoples' identity, culture and postcolonial status. Focusing largely on Australian Indigenous peoples, but drawing also on the Canadian experiences, Thalia Anthony critically analyses how the judiciary have interpreted Indigenous difference. Through an analysis of Indigenous sentencing remarks over a fifty year period in a number of jurisdictions, the book demonstrates how judicial discretion is moulded to dominant white assumptions about Indigeneity. More specifica

Contents:

Cover ; Half Title; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents ; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Table of legislation; Table of cases and inquests; 1. Introduction to Indigenous representations in criminal sentencing; Recognition of the 'Other'; Recognition in a society of denial; Recognition as metaphoric control; Same difference in sentencing: common law and statutory frameworks for recognition; Interplay between discretion to recognize and sentencing statutes; The guises of recognition; Recognition of disparate Indigenous experiences; Shifting penality

Lenience and the tolerant guiseStronger penalties and the exclusionary guise; Vignettes and rationales of analysis; Chapter vignettes; Rationale and limitations of methodology; Conclusion: recognition and the reinvention of the terms of indigeneity; 2. Historicizing colonial and postcolonial Indigenous crime and punishment; Introduction; Constructing the Indigenous criminal on the frontier; Imposing British jurisdiction: land, sovereignty and crime; Legislated exceptionalism: punishment on the body; From body to soul: 'protective' containment

Normalization of Indigenous punishment in the age of assimilationThe spatial field of postcolonial crime; Concluding remarks: state criminalization and the legacy of non-recognition of Indigenous laws; 3. Decolonizing Indigenous crime statistics; Introduction: sentencing, statistics and social relations; Incidence of over-representation; Explaining over-representation and the significance of sentencing; For tougher, for lighter, until statistics do us part; Findings of discrimination in sentencing; Findings of fairness; Implications of sameness in sentencing: difference in criminality

Postcolonial perspectives on overrepresentation: contextualizing and critiquing positivismTranscending positivism: towards a postcolonial sentencing paradigm; The punitive turn in sentencing Indigenous offenders; General features of the punitive turn; From social creatures to individual actors - responsibilization and risk; Protecting the community through deterrent messages; Ideal victims and serious harms; Implications and limitations of the punitive turn framework for sentencing Indigenous offenders; Conclusion: more than mitigation or aggravation

4. Sentencing away culture and customary marriageIntroduction: culture, custom and culpability; Continuing, transforming and resisting cultures; Culture in the courts; Culture, violence and metaphors of state paternalism; Parliament's privileging of punitiveness above culture; Historical appropriations: cultural exclusion to cultural celebration; Early years of the Northern Territory Supreme Court: disciplining the body; Justice Kriewaldt's adoption of cultural leniency: disciplining the soul; Sentencing from the 1970s: cultural valorization

The judicial will to civilize: sentencing contemporary cultural crimes

Notes:

"A GlassHouse Book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed August 28, 2013).

ISBN:

1-134-62055-1

0-415-83159-8

0-203-64029-2

1-134-62048-9

9780203640296

OCLC:

854977114