Ebook: Conflict, Politics and Crime: Aboriginal Communities and the Police

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.