Indigenous Criminology

Description

Indigenous Criminology is the first book to comprehensively explore Indigenous people's contact with criminal justice systems in a contemporary and historical context. Drawing on comparative Indigenous material from North America, Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, it addresses both the theoretical underpinnings to the development of a specific Indigenous criminology, and canvasses the broader policy and practice implications for criminal justice. Written by leading criminologists specialising in Indigenous justice issues, the book argues for the importance of Indigenous knowledges and methodologies to criminology, and suggests that colonialism needs to be a fundamental concept to criminology in order to understand contemporary problems such as deaths in custody, high imprisonment rates, police brutality and the high levels of violence in some Indigenous communities. Prioritising the voices of Indigenous peoples, the work will make a significant contribution to the development of a decolonising criminology and will be of wide interest.

Chris Cunneen holds joint appointments as professor of criminology at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, and in the Cairns Institute at James Cook University, Australia. Among his many books are the coauthored "Juvenile Justice: Youth and Crime in Australia " and "Indigenous Legal Relations in Australia." Juan Tauri is an indigenous criminologist from Aotearoa (New Zealand). He holds a visiting appointment at the University of Wollongong, Australia.

"A welcome contribution to the decolonization paradigm in Criminology, a discipline that is complicit in the enslavement, colonization, genocidization and criminalization of Others with repressive fetishes of western modernity." Biko Agozino, editor, African Journal of Criminology "A major original contribution providing a valuable theoretical comparative perspective to the limits of traditional Western criminology by defying the status quo and giving Indigenous people a criminological voice." Stuart Henry, San Diego State University "Thoroughly researched, brilliantly argued, this powerful critique of mainstream criminology carves an elegant and welcome path to critical and responsive Indigenous-informed criminology." L. Jane McMillan, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada