03155nam a22005295i 4500 978-1-137-28498-3 DE-He213 20210625215928.0 cr nn 008mamaa 151222s2012 xxk| s |||| 0|eng d 9781137284983 978-1-137-28498-3 10.1057/9781137284983 doi K7000-7720.22 K7073-7078 LB bicssc LAW051000 bisacsh LB thema LAM thema 340.9 23 340.2 23 Douglas, H. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Indigenous Crime and Settler Law [electronic resource] : White Sovereignty after Empire / by H. Douglas, M. Finnane. 1st ed. 2012. London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. XVIII, 280 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies Introduction: Histories -- '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 -- Conclusion: Sovereignties. In a break from the contemporary focus on the law's response to inter-racial crime, Heather Douglas and Mark Finnane examine the foundations of criminal law's response to the victimization of one Indigenous person by another. Against the changing background of settler encounters with Australian Indigenous peoples, they show that the question of Indigenous amenability to imported British criminal law in Australia was not resolved in the nineteenth century and remains surprisingly open. Through a study of the policing and prosecution of Indigenous homicide, the book demonstrates how criminal law is consistently framed as the key test of sovereignty, whatever the challenges faced in effecting its jurisdiction. Drawing on a wealth of archival and case material, the authors conclude that settlers and Indigenous peoples still live in the shadow of empire, yet to reach an understanding of each other. Private international law. Conflict of laws. Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law . https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/R14002 Finnane, M. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9780230316508 Printed edition: 9781349339792 Printed edition: 9781349339785 Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137284983 ZDB-2-PSE ZDB-2-SXS Palgrave Social Sciences Collection (SpringerNature-41146) Social Sciences (R0) (SpringerNature-43726)