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Culture Matters: Forensic Issues For Australian Indigenous Peoples, Robyn Lincoln May 2009

Culture Matters: Forensic Issues For Australian Indigenous Peoples, Robyn Lincoln

Robyn Lincoln

Extract:

There has clearly been an extensive amount of scientific focus on Indigenous peoples in the 200 plus years since colonisation. There were many early scientific expeditions, work done by linguists and anthropologists, followed by the involvement of legal practitioners in land rights claims or those working in the health and mental health fields. More recently too, criminological attention has been paid to the interactions of Indigenous Australians and the processes of the criminal justice system largely because of the disproportionate number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples being dealt with by justice agencies. And, of course, in addition …


Urban Indigenous Young People: Criminality, Accommodation Or Resistance, M. Lynch, A. Fagan, E. Ogilvie, Robyn Lincoln Feb 2009

Urban Indigenous Young People: Criminality, Accommodation Or Resistance, M. Lynch, A. Fagan, E. Ogilvie, Robyn Lincoln

Robyn Lincoln

Chapter 9 (urban indigenous young people: criminality, accommodation, or resistance) focuses on urban youth and explores aspects of their neighborhood, education, peer relationships, and family.


Abandoning Identity Protection For Juvenile Offenders, Duncan Chappell, Robyn Lincoln Feb 2009

Abandoning Identity Protection For Juvenile Offenders, Duncan Chappell, Robyn Lincoln

Robyn Lincoln

Extract: In what is believed to be a case without precedent in Australia the media organisation, John Fairfax Pty Ltd, publishers of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers, recently made application in the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal (NSWCCA) to have a name suppression order removed on two juveniles and their cooffending adult siblings.2 The prohibition on publishing their names meant that they could only be known by pseudonyms, namely their initials, on the premise that the naming of the adult brothers would automatically identify the younger ones. In a unanimous decision the NSWCCA (Spigelman CJ, Basten JA …


Inequalities Of Crime, Kathleen Daly, Robyn Lincoln Feb 2009

Inequalities Of Crime, Kathleen Daly, Robyn Lincoln

Robyn Lincoln

An introductory text for the study of crime and criminology in Australia. The text is student-friendly, incorporating diagrams, cartoons and photographs as learning aids, sample questions and suggested further reading.