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Community-Based Strategies in Aboriginal Criminal Justice: The Northern Territory Experience

Community-Based Strategies in Aboriginal Criminal Justice: The Northern Territory Experience Recent attempts to involve the remote and small town communities of NorthernAustralia in their own policing and correctional services have often been held up asa model for developing Aboriginal criminal justice policies. Such a proposal raisesimportant questions as to both the construction of the post-colonial ‘community’ inremote and settled Australia and the sociological principles by which these criminaljustice schemes (eg night patrols, community wardens, community corrections) havebeen constituted. The paper explores the constructions of the Aboriginal communityover the past two decades (ethnographic, politico-administrative and postmodernist)as a background to the development and implementation of community-based criminaljustice schemes in the Northern Territory. A typology of post-colonial criminaljustice strategies is developed which identifies four ‘ideal types’ in which theinitiatives may be positioned. These are the mediative (community wardens, nightpatrols), the educative (community justice programs), the neo-colonialist (new formsof imposed European laws and policing) and the incorporative (pervasive andtotalising forms of control). The possibility of transposing these Northern Territoryschemes to other Aboriginal situations is then critically evaluated in the light ofdiffering socio-political constructions of ‘community’. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology SAGE

Community-Based Strategies in Aboriginal Criminal Justice: The Northern Territory Experience

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SAGE
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© The Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology and Authors, 1995
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0004-8658
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1837-9273
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10.1177/000486589502800201
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Abstract

Recent attempts to involve the remote and small town communities of NorthernAustralia in their own policing and correctional services have often been held up asa model for developing Aboriginal criminal justice policies. Such a proposal raisesimportant questions as to both the construction of the post-colonial ‘community’ inremote and settled Australia and the sociological principles by which these criminaljustice schemes (eg night patrols, community wardens, community corrections) havebeen constituted. The paper explores the constructions of the Aboriginal communityover the past two decades (ethnographic, politico-administrative and postmodernist)as a background to the development and implementation of community-based criminaljustice schemes in the Northern Territory. A typology of post-colonial criminaljustice strategies is developed which identifies four ‘ideal types’ in which theinitiatives may be positioned. These are the mediative (community wardens, nightpatrols), the educative (community justice programs), the neo-colonialist (new formsof imposed European laws and policing) and the incorporative (pervasive andtotalising forms of control). The possibility of transposing these Northern Territoryschemes to other Aboriginal situations is then critically evaluated in the light ofdiffering socio-political constructions of ‘community’.

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Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology – SAGE

Published: Jun 1, 1995

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