The processes of criminalisation lay the foundation for creating significant disadvantage among Indigenous people across the former settler societies of Australia, New Zealand and North America. Yet the massive incarceration of Indigenous people has not resulted in ensuring the safety of...

This paper examines issues of crime and violence in Indigenous communities in the context of broader problems of criminal justice law, policy and practice. In particular it addresses four points: 1) the problem the legal system has in ensuring protection of Indigenous women in the context of...

This report addresses two broad research questions. This first is an analysis of the civil and family law needs of Aboriginal people in New South Wales (NSW). The second arises out of this legal needs analysis and explores how Legal Aid NSW might improve the services that they provide to...

This report addresses the issue of whether the legal system is adequately responding to domestic and family violence against Indigenous Australians. More specifically, it assesses the effectiveness of domestic violence protection orders for Indigenous clients, and proposes recommendations for change

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...

Most analysis of state crime focuses on state violence – ranging from torture and terror through to genocide. This chapter is an exploration of state crime in the form of systematic state-sponsored fraud and related breaches of human rights. It derives from a more general project on the...

For nearly three centuries, Indigenous peoples within the borders of present-day Canada engaged in treaty-making with the British Crown and other European powers. These treaties regularly formed the colonial legal basis for access to Indigenous lands. However, treaties were not negotiated...

This paper studies the impact of active labour market programs for institutionally distinct Indigenous populations in Canada using administrative data on the universe of participants in the Aboriginal Skills and Employment Training Strategy (ASETS). Within Indigenous population groups, we...