Conflict, Politics and Crime: Aboriginal Communities and the Police

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Part title -- About the author -- Title page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Acronyms -- List of tables -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The criminalisation of Indigenous people -- Police custody -- Imprisonment -- Juvenile detention -- Explaining Aboriginal offending patterns and over-representation -- Offending patterns -- The impact of policing on offending -- The law and policing -- Judicial decision-making -- Spatial factors: Environment and location -- Cultural difference -- Socioeconomic factors -- Resistance -- Theorising the impact of policing on crime figures.;Aboriginal people are grossly over-represented before the courts and in our gaols. Despite numerous inquiries, State and Federal, and the considerable funds spent trying to understand this phenomenon, nothing has changed. Indigenous people continue to be apprehended, sentenced, incarcerated and die in gaols. One part of this depressing and seemingly inexorable process is the behaviour of police. Drawing on research from across Australia, Chris Cunneen focuses on how police and Aboriginal people interact in urban and rural environments. He explores police history and police culture, the nature. Part title -- About the author -- Title page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Acronyms -- List of tables -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The criminalisation of Indigenous people -- Police custody -- Imprisonment -- Juvenile detention -- Explaining Aboriginal offending patterns and over-representation -- Offending patterns -- The impact of policing on offending -- The law and policing -- Judicial decision-making -- Spatial factors: Environment and location -- Cultural difference -- Socioeconomic factors -- Resistance -- Theorising the impact of policing on crime figures. 3 The nature of colonial policing -- Dispossession and war: Police as military -- The intensity of surveillance: Police as guardians -- The regulation of personal, familial and social relations -- Assimilation -- The nature of colonial policing -- 4 From over-policing to zero tolerance -- Over-policing -- Policing social and cultural life -- Paramilitary police and public order -- Over-policing and zero tolerance -- 5 Terror, violence and the abuse of human rights -- Terror and the politics of colonialism -- Policing as terror -- Terror and trauma -- The abuse of human rights. 6 Police culture and the use of discretion -- Police discretion and Indigenous young people -- Police culture -- Discretion, police culture and human rights -- 7 Policing Indigenous women -- Colonisation as a gendered project -- Policing responses to violence against Indigenous women -- Indigenous women and public order offences -- The effects of public order policing -- 8 Governance and the policing of contested space -- Social space and social order: the spatiality of policing -- Resistance and governance -- 9 The reform of policing policies -- Community policing and proportional responses. Aboriginal Policy Statements and Aboriginal Strategic Plans -- Management strategies -- Aboriginal community police and community liaison officers -- The demand for greater autonomy: Aboriginal Justice Agreements -- 10 Policing and postcolonial self-determination -- Citizenship, human rights and the criminal justice system -- Indigenous self-determination -- Self-determination in the international context -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.