Decolonising Criminology

Harry Blagg is Professor of Criminology and Director of the Centre for Indigenous Peoples and Criminal Justice at The University of Western Australia. He has over twenty years of experience conducting research with Aboriginal people across Australia on justice related issues. He has developed a specific focus on remote communities – particularly in the Kimberly Region of WA and the Northern Territory –  and has been involved in research, consultancy and policy development around community justice, night patrols, men and women’s safe places, youth justice and family violence.  Thalia Anthony is Associate Professor at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Her expertise is in the areas of criminal law and procedure, and Indigenous people and the law, with a particular specialisation in discrimination in the criminal justice system, Indigenous community justice mechanisms and the lived experience of Indigenous women in prisons. She has developednew understandings of the role of criminalisation in governing Indigenous communities. Her research is informed by fieldwork in Indigenous communities and partnerships with Indigenous organisations in Australia and overseas.

1. Introduction: Turning Criminology Upside Down.- 2. Postcolonial Criminology: ‘The Past Isn’t Over...’.- 3. ‘Who Speaks for Place?’.- 4. Decolonising Criminology Methodologies.- 5. Borders Are Strange Places: From Borders of the State to Boundaries of the Prison.- 6. Restorative Justice or Indigenous Justice?.- 7. Disciplinary Power or Colonial Power?.-8. Justice in the Shadow of the Camp.- 9. Carceral Feminism: Saving Indigenous women from Indigenous men.- 10. Hybrid Justice i: Indigenous Sentencing and Justice Planning.- 11. Hybrid Justice ii: Night Patrols and Place Based Sovereignty.- 12. Conclusions: State of Exception and Bare Life in Criminology and Criminal “Justice”.