Indigenous People Crime and Punishment - Thalia Anthony

Indigenous People Crime and Punishment examines criminal sentencing courts' changing characterisations of Indigenous peoples' identity culture and postcolonial status. Focusing largely on Australian Indigenous peoples but referring also to the Canadian and New Zealand experiences Thalia Anthony critically analyzes how the judiciary have interpreted Indigenous difference. Through an analysis of Indigenous sentencing decisions and remarks over a fifty year period in a number of jurisdictions the book demonstrates how discretion is moulded to cultural assumptions about Indigeneity. More specifically Indigenous People Crime and Punishment shows how the increasing demonisation of Indigenous criminality and culture in sentencing has turned earlier `gains' in the legal recognition of Indigenous peoples on their head. The recognition of Indigenous difference is thereby revealed as a pliable concept that is just as likely to remove rights as it is to grant them.

TITLE: Indigenous People Crime and Punishment

AUTHOR: Thalia Anthony

SKU: 9780415831598

PUBLISHER: Taylor & Francis Ltd

DATE PUBLISHED: 22/05/2015

PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom

PAGES: 272

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 159 mm x 235 mm

WEIGHT: 408 gr