Full Description
Indigenous Legal Relations in Australia considers Indigenous peoples contact with Anglo-Australian law, and deals primarily with the problems the imposed law has had in its relationship with Indigenous people in Australia. The book is comprehensive in scope and covers key issues relating to sovereignty, jurisdiction and territorial acquisition; family law and child protection; criminal law, policing and sentencing; land rights and native title; culturalconsitutional law; social justice, self-determination and treaty issues.
Contents
PART ONEColonisation Chapter 2 Warfare to Welfare: Genocide to Racial Discrimination? Chapter 3 Reparations and Redress Chapter 4 Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children's welfare PART TWO: EQUAL BEFORE THE LAW: CRIMINALISATION Chapter 5 Juvenile Justice Chapter 6 Criminalisation and Policing in Indigenous Communities Chapter7 Courts, Sentencing and Imprisonment PART THREE: LAW, LAND AND CULTURE Chapter 8 Land Rights Chapter 9 Native Title Chapter 10 Protecting Culture PART FOUR: LAW, RIGHTS AND GOVERNANCE Chapter 11 Racial Discrimination and the Law Chapter 12 Constitutional Change: Strengthening Rights Protection Chapter 13 Indigenous Governance: Amending the Mainstream Chapter 14 A New Order: Self-Determination Chapter 15 Unfinished Business
