Chris Cunneen’s ‘Colonial Processes,
Indigenous Peoples, and Criminal Justice Systems’ is available on SSRN:
This
chapter considers the interaction between colonial processes, Indigenous
peoples and criminal justice systems. The commonalities in the experiences of
Indigenous peoples in white settler societies (Australia, Canada, New Zealand
and the US) provide the focus for an exploration of the implications of the
colonial process for understanding Indigenous contact with western criminal
justice systems across a number of domains. A fundamental point derived from
this exploration is that the politics and outcomes of colonization are not
simply of historical interest.
Rather, the contemporary relationship between Indigenous people and crime,
punishment, and justice is structured by these longer term relationships.
The chapter will appear in the
forthcoming M Tonry and S Bucerius (eds), The
Oxford Handbook
of Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration.