Indigenous Legal Relations in Australia
Published on 30. December 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
398 pages
978-0-19-556201-9 (ISBN)
Description
Indigenous Legal Relations in Australia considers Indigenous peoples contact with Anglo-Australian law, and deals primarily with the problems the imposed law has had in its relationship with Indigenous people in Australia. The book is comprehensive in scope and covers key issues relating to sovereignty, jurisdiction and territorial acquisition; family law and child protection; criminal law, policing and sentencing; land rights and native title; cultural
consitutional law; social justice, self-determination and treaty issues.
consitutional law; social justice, self-determination and treaty issues.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Melbourne
Australia
Publishing group
Oxford University Press Australia
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
719 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-556201-9 (9780195562019)
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Persons
Larissa Behrendt is Professor and Director of Research at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia. Chris Cunneen is Professor and the NewSouth Global Chair in Criminology in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales in Australia
Content
PART ONE: THE LAW OF THE COLONISERS Chapter 1Dispossession and Colonisation Chapter 2 Warfare to Welfare: Genocide to Racial Discrimination? Chapter 3 Reparations and Redress Chapter 4 Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children's welfare PART TWO: EQUAL BEFORE THE LAW: CRIMINALISATION Chapter 5 Juvenile Justice Chapter 6 Criminalisation and Policing in Indigenous Communities Chapter7 Courts, Sentencing and Imprisonment PART THREE: LAW, LAND AND CULTURE Chapter 8 Land Rights Chapter 9 Native Title Chapter 10 Protecting Culture PART FOUR: LAW, RIGHTS AND GOVERNANCE Chapter 11 Racial Discrimination and the Law Chapter 12 Constitutional Change: Strengthening Rights Protection Chapter 13 Indigenous Governance: Amending the Mainstream Chapter 14 A New Order: Self-Determination Chapter 15 Unfinished Business