INDIGENOUS CRIMINOLOGY

Contents

About the authors

Acknowledgements

Preface

1. Introduction

Indigenous peoples in settler colonial societies

Indigenous criminalisation and victimisation

Enhancing criminology through Indigenous knowledges and methodologies

Silencing colonialism

Sovereignty, self-determination and Indigenous rights

Conclusion

2. Towards a critical Indigenous criminology

Criminology, knowledge and ‘othering’ the Indigenous

The (re-)emergence of authoritarian (colonialist) criminology

Towards a critical Indigenous criminology

The principles of a critical Indigenous criminology

Conclusion

3. Understanding the impact of colonialism

Settler colonialism

Race and the civilising mission

Protection, assimilation and criminalisation

Punishing Indigenous peoples

The criminogenic effects of colonialism

Civil rights and Indigenous resistance

Conclusion: defining crime in a colonial context

4. Policing, Indigenous peoples and social order

The adverse use of police discretion

Police use of force and racist violence

Under-policing and violence against women

Indigenous community policing

Conclusion

5. Indigenous women and settler colonial crime control

Indigenous women’s engagement with settler colonial crime control

Indigenous women’s experience of imprisonment

Indigenous women, violence and victimisation

Settler colonial crime control and the silencing of Indigenous women

The intersectional reality of Indigenous women and crime control

The Northern Territory ‘Intervention’, Indigenous women and intersectionality

Conclusion

6. Reconceptualising sentencing and punishment from an Indigenous perspective

Sentencing Indigenous people in Australia

Sentencing Indigenous people in Canada

The lack of sentencing alternatives, programmes and services for Indigenous people

Indigenous sentencing courts

US tribal courts

Justice reinvestment and Indigenous nations

Healing

Conclusion

7. Indigenous peoples and the globalisation of crime control

The globalisation of crime control

The contemporary globalisation of crime control and Indigenous peoples

The rise of restorative justice as a globalised crime control industry

The globalisation of the FGC forum and its impact on Indigenous peoples

The Indigenous experience of the globalisation of restorative justice

Conclusion

8. Critical issues in the development of an Indigenous criminology

Why Indigenous criminology?

Indigenous self-determination: where are the criminologists?

Enhancing Indigenous self-determination in criminal justice

Self-determination and risk

Criminal justice and Indigenous empowerment

References

Index