Indigenous Crime and Settler Law White Sovereignty after Empire /
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 Austr...
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London :
Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2012. |
| Series: | Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137284983 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.