Conflict, Politics and Crime Aboriginal Communities and the Police

by Cunneen, Chris

• ISBN13: 9781864487190
• ISBN10: 1864487194
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-01
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Summary

Acknowledgments List of acronyms List of tables 1. Introduction 2. The criminalisation of indigenous people 3. The nature of colonial policing 4. From over-policing to zero tolerance 5. Terror, violence and the abuse of human rights 6. Police culture and the use of discretion 7. Policing indigenous women 8. Governance and the policing of contested space 9. The reform of policing policies 10. Policing and postcolonial self-determination Conclusion Endnotes Bibliography Index

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
List of acronyms	viii
List of tables	ix
Introduction	1	(16)
The criminalisation of Indigenous people	17	(29)
Police custody	18	(3)
Imprisonment	21	(2)
Juvenile detention	23	(1)
Explaining Aboriginal offending patterns and over-representation	24	(1)
Offending patterns	25	(4)
The impact of policing on offending	29	(3)
The law and policing	32	(2)
Judicial decision-making	34	(2)
Spatial factors: environment and location	36	(2)
Cultural difference	38	(2)
Socioeconomic factors	40	(2)
Resistance	42	(1)
Theorising the impact of policing on crime figures	43	(3)
The nature of colonial policing	46	(34)
Dispossession and war: police as military	49	(13)
The intensity of surveillance: police as guardians	62	(4)
The regulation of personal, familiar and social relations	66	(7)
Assimilation	73	(2)
The nature of colonial policing	75	(5)
From over-policing to zero tolerance	80	(26)
Over-policing	85	(6)
Policing social and cultural life	91	(6)
Paramilitary police and public order	97	(5)
Over-policing and zero tolerance	102	(4)
Terror, violence and the abuse of human rights	106	(24)
Terror and the politics of colonialism	106	(2)
Policing as terror	108	(13)
Terror and trauma	121	(6)
The abuse of human rights	127	(3)
Police culture and the use of discretion	130	(27)
Police discretion and Indigenous young people	132	(11)
Police culture	143	(11)
Discretion, police culture and human rights	154	(3)
Policing Indigenous women	157	(23)
Colonisation as a gendered project	158	(2)
Policing responses to violence against Indigenous women	160	(5)
Indigenous women and public order offences	165	(1)
The effects of public order policing	166	(14)
Governance and the policing of contested space	180	(25)
Social space and social order: the spatiality of policing	180	(11)
Resistance and governance	191	(14)
The reform of policing policies	205	(24)
Community policing and proportional responses	206	(4)
Aboriginal Policy Statements and Aboriginal Strategic Plans	210	(3)
Management strategies	213	(3)
Aboriginal Community Police and Community Liaison Officers	216	(5)
The demand for greater autonomy: Aboriginal Justice Agreements	221	(8)
Policing and postcolonial self-determination	229	(24)
Citizenship, human rights and the criminal justice system	233	(4)
Indigenous self-determination	237	(7)
Self-determination in the international context	244	(9)
Notes	253	(16)
Bibliography	269	(26)
Index	295