Common Law and Colonised Peoples (eBook)

Studies in Trinidad and Western Australia

Jeannine M. Purdy (Autor)

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2019
321 Seiten
Taylor and Francis (Verlag)
978-0-429-87273-0 (ISBN)

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Published in 1997. It is well known in Australia that Aboriginal people are currently massively over-represented amongst the prison population. Although it is not officially acknowledged to the same degree in Trinidad, it is also well-known that Afro-Trinidadians are over-represented in the prisons of that county. The disproportionate criminalisation of Aboriginal Australians and Afro-Trinidadians is interpreted by the author as a continuation and concretion of the myth of the barbaric, uncivilised and ungoverned 'savage; in opposition to which Western legal systems and societies have created their own identities. The book departs from much contemporary analysis in this area by drawing strongly upon a historical analysis of the operations of the common law in Trinidad and Western Australia. By doing so, the book illustrates that race/ethnicity and criminalisation are not necessarily contiguous. What such analysis does reveal is another and more constant dimension to criminalisation; and that is economic basis of many of the legal relations instituted under British derived legal systems with respect to colonised peoples.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.1.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 0-429-87273-9 / 0429872739
• ISBN-13: 978-0-429-87273-0 / 9780429872730