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Indigenous Crime and Settler Law

White Sovereignty after Empire

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  • © 2012

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Authors:
  1. Heather Douglas
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  2. Mark Finnane
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  • Subject matter of global historic significance
  • Interdisciplinary crosses law and the political and social sciences
  • The authors are wellknown in this field
  • Strong international appeal
  • Draws on unpublished archival research and unreported cases

Part of the book series: Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies (PSLS)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction: Histories

    • Heather Douglas, Mark Finnane
    Pages 1-12

  3. ‘Troublesome Friends and Dangerous Enemies’

    • Heather Douglas, Mark Finnane
    Pages 13-34

  4. Amenable to the Law

    • Heather Douglas, Mark Finnane
    Pages 35-64

  5. The Exercise of Jurisdiction

    • Heather Douglas, Mark Finnane
    Pages 65-88

  6. A Question of Custom

    • Heather Douglas, Mark Finnane
    Pages 89-120

  7. Equality before the Law

    • Heather Douglas, Mark Finnane
    Pages 121-147

  8. Towards Formal Recognition

    • Heather Douglas, Mark Finnane
    Pages 148-182

  9. ‘Benign Pessimism’: A National Emergency

    • Heather Douglas, Mark Finnane
    Pages 183-213

  10. Conclusion: Sovereignties

    • Heather Douglas, Mark Finnane
    Pages 214-221

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 222-260
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About this book

In a break from the contemporary focus on the law's response to inter-racial crime, the authors examine the law's approach to the victimization of one Indigenous person by another. Drawing on a wealth of archival material relating to homicides in Australia, they conclude that settlers and Indigenous peoples still live in the shadow of empire.

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"Heather Douglas and Mark Finnane expose the myth of 'perfect sovereignty' in Australia in this important book. Their meticulous historical study demonstrates that although, according to international law, the English acquired sovereignty over the entire continent upon settlement...the exertion of sovereignty and the exercise of criminal jurisdiction over Indigenous people has been, in practice, uneven, piecemeal and imperfect." - Tanya Mitchell, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, Volume 25 Number 2

About the authors

HEATHER DOUGLAS is a professor at the TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
 
MARK FINNANE is ARC Australian Professorial Fellow and Chief Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security, Griffith University, Australia.

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