Black lives, white law : locked up and locked out in Australia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marks, Russell.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aboriginal Australians--Criminal justice system.

Aboriginal Australians.

Aboriginal Australians--Legal status, laws, etc.

Criminal justice, Administration of--Australia.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

Prisoners, Aboriginal Australian.

Justice, Administration of--Australia.

Justice, Administration of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (442 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Piraí : Black Inc., 2022.

Summary:

How and why Australia's legal system fails Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Introduction: The mass incarceration crisis

1. Settlers: How the criminal law came to Australia

2. Sovereignty: How Aboriginal law disappeared as if by magic

3. Solutions: How settlers 'solved' their First Nations problem in different ways at different times

4. Winds of Change: How the First Nations tried to get settler institutions to listen

5. Bending: How the settler criminal justice system began to make accommodations

6. Backlash: How the implications of self-determination unsettled settlers

7. Saviours: How settler courts and governments 'saved' First Nations women and children from First Nations cultures - and then locked them up anyway

8. Incarceration: How settler justice threw up its hands and decided prison was the only answer after all

9. Debate: How settlers could not agree on which story to tell about Indigenous incarceration

10. Women: How protection isn't working much better this time around for First Nations women

11. Children: How the settler justice system protects and rehabilitates Indigenous kids

12. Justice: Who calls it a justice system anyway?

13. The Defenders: Why Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services are so important, and how they fail

14. A New Beginning: Why Settler Australia needs to acknowledge it created the problem and doesn't have the answers

Acknowledgements

Notes

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781743822616

1743822618

OCLC:

1343249407