Indigenous criminology

Cunneen, Chris; Tauri, Juan

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“…What does this have to do with criminology and criminal justice? As has been noted previously there has been a tendency in criminology, and more particularly in administrative criminology, to steer as far away as possible from analysing institutional racism and human rights abuses (Cunneen, 2006;also Tauri, 2012;Cunneen & Tauri, 2016).…”

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Institutional racism and (in)justice: Australia in the 21st century

Cunneen

2019

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This article focusses on systemic and institutionalised racism against Indigenous people as a contemporary feature of the Australian social and penal landscape, and its implications for justice. There has been ongoing concern with institutional racism within the criminal justice system, however, this article concentrates on the intersection between institutional racism in non-criminal justice settings and their compounding effect on criminalization. Despite legal prohibitions on racial discrimination, various forms of institutional racism continue unabated. Indeed, part of the argument is that broader political changes particularly associated with the influence of neoliberalism on social policy have exacerbated the problem of institutional racism and redefined and reinforced the link between welfare and criminalization. Indeed, social welfare has come to be informed by the same values and philosophies as criminal justice: deterrence, surveillance, stigma and graduated sanctions or punishments. How might we understand these broader shifts in the public policy environment, to what extent do they reflect and reproduce institutional racism, and how do they bleed into increased criminalization? I endeavour to answer this question through the consideration of two specific sites of social welfare policy – child protection and social housing – and to consider how systemic and institutional forms of racism play out in daily life for Indigenous people and how they interact with criminal justice.

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Institutional racism and (in)justice: Australia in the 21st century

Cunneen

2019

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“…Shukri Ali in Georgia, Korryn Gaines in Maryland and Deborah Danner in New York were experiencing mental health crises when the police "assisted" by killing them (Ritchie, 2017). discourse (Agozino, 2003;Cunneen & Tauri, 2017;Deckert, 2014;Kitossa, 2012). Discursive power condenses in high-ranked academic journals due to their influence over other scholarly content and public debate (Deckert, 2014).…”

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Silencing Prisoner Protests: Criminology, Black Women and State-sanctioned Violence

Gatewood

Norris

2019

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Protests and resistance from those locked away in jails, prisons and detention centers occur but receive limited, if any, mainstream attention. In the United States and Canada, 61 instances of prisoner unrest occurred in 2018 alone. In August of the same year, incarcerated men and women in the United States planned nineteen days of peaceful protest to improve prison conditions. Complex links of institutionalized power, white supremacy and Black resistance is receiving renewed attention; however, state-condoned violence against women in correctional institutions (e.g., physical, sexual and emotional abuse, and medical neglect by prison staff) is understudied. This qualitative case study examines 10 top-tier Criminology journals from 2008-2018 for the presence of prisoner unrest/protest. Findings reveal a paucity of attention devoted to prisoner unrest or state-sanctioned violence. This paper argues that the invisibility of prisoner unrest conceals the breadth and depth of state-inflicted violence against prisoners, especially marginalized peoples. This paper concludes with a discussion of the historical legacy and contemporary invisibility of Black women’s resistance against state-inflicted violence. This paper argues that in order to make sense of and tackle state-condoned violence we must turn to incarcerated individuals, activists, and Black and Indigenous thinkers and grassroots actors.

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“…date: 11 October 2020 and brought to the socioeconomic marginalization of indigenous groups within new colo nial societies. The level of marginalization varies depending on several factors, especially on the territorial distribution of indigenous peoples, often confined in remote areas such as reservations or indigenous protected areas where they are granted a certain degree of sovereignty (Cunneen & Tauri, 2016;Nielsen & Robyn, 2003). One of the areas in which this marginalization is more evident is that of criminal justice.…”

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“…Little access to justice and legal aid also contribute to increased levels of victimization and to higher incarceration rates. Moreover, in the colonial process criminal law (and criminalization) became a way to impose new sociocultural values and a new social order, to legitimize the use of force by the colonizers on indigenous people, to increase control and policing over these communities, and reduce their political and institutional independency (Anthony, 2013;Cunneen & Tauri, 2016;Monchalin, 2016). It should not surprise, therefore, that in digenous claims for self-determination often go through requests for autonomy within the criminal justice sphere.…”

Section: Indigenous Peoplesmentioning

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Crime, Diversity, Culture, and Cultural Defense

Rigoni¹

2018

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice

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Contemporary societies are culturally diverse. This diversity can be the result of different historical and social processes and might affect the uniformity and efficiency of criminal justice systems. Colonization of indigenous populations that started in the 15th century later European colonization of Africa and migration flows following the Second World War have contributed to this diversity in different ways. The growing importance acquired by culture in the criminal law domain went hand in hand with the attention received by it both in the human rights field (especially linked to minority rights) and in the field of sociological and criminological theories. Nowadays, crimes such as female genital mutilation, forced marriages, and other behaviors grounded in “culture or tradition” form the object of several international human rights instruments and media reports. The way in which criminal justice systems deal with such cases, and more in general with cultural factors, varies greatly. Different instruments have been proposed to allow the consideration of cultural elements within criminal proceedings among which (in common law countries) is the formalization of an autonomous “cultural defense.” However, international human rights instruments, especially those protecting the rights of vulnerable subjects such as women and children, have repeatedly discouraged states to take into account “culture, religion, and tradition” as grounds for justification (see, e.g., the Istanbul Convention). Criminal proceedings are not the only setting to deal with culture and crime. More recently, the development of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms and restorative justice both within formal and informal (community) settings have given an additional option to take culture into account in the resolution of disputes (in terms of procedures used and normativities in play). Concerns exist with regard to the substantive and procedural rights of participants to these programs. However, these alternatives could represent a way to allow a certain degree of legal pluralism and facilitate access to justice for minority groups.

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Indigenous criminology

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Institutional racism and (in)justice: Australia in the 21st century

Institutional racism and (in)justice: Australia in the 21st century

Silencing Prisoner Protests: Criminology, Black Women and State-sanctioned Violence

Crime, Diversity, Culture, and Cultural Defense

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