One Law for All? : Aboriginal People and Criminal Law in Early South Australia.

By: Pope, AlanMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Canberra Act : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (265 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780855757847Subject(s): Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Australia -- South Australia -- History | Criminal law -- Australia -- South Australia -- History | Equality before the law -- Australia -- South Australia -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: One Law for All? : Aboriginal People and Criminal Law in Early South AustraliaDDC classification: 345.9 | 345.942305 LOC classification: KUE380.6 -- .P67 2011ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- chapter 1 INTRODUCTION -- chapter 2 LEGAL POLICY AND EARLY PRACTICE -- chapter 3 AMENABILITY AND JURISDICTION -- chapter 4 ADMITTING ABORIGINAL EVIDENCE -- chapter 5 LANGUAGE PROBLEMS -- CHAPTER 6 INTER SE JURISDICTION -- chapter 7 MURDER AND MANSLAUGHTER -- chapter 8 ASSAULT AND ROBBERY -- chapter 9 PROPERTY OFFENCES -- chapter 10 PROTECTED BY THE LAW? -- chapter 11 CONCLUSIONS and observations -- Appendix Cases involving Aboriginal people, 1836 to 1862 -- Notes -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Index.
Summary: In the planned colony of South Australia, Aboriginal people were to be British subjects, held accountable for their actions by English law and fully entitled to its protection. The reality, however, failed to meet the high expectations of London's reformers as British law struggled to protect the settlers' interests and failed to protect Aboriginal lives and birthrights. Revealing the efforts made by the judiciary to apply the legal equality policy as well as the frustrations of the Aborigines as they coped with the invasion of their lands, this account paints a clear picture of the South Australian frontier.
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Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- chapter 1 INTRODUCTION -- chapter 2 LEGAL POLICY AND EARLY PRACTICE -- chapter 3 AMENABILITY AND JURISDICTION -- chapter 4 ADMITTING ABORIGINAL EVIDENCE -- chapter 5 LANGUAGE PROBLEMS -- CHAPTER 6 INTER SE JURISDICTION -- chapter 7 MURDER AND MANSLAUGHTER -- chapter 8 ASSAULT AND ROBBERY -- chapter 9 PROPERTY OFFENCES -- chapter 10 PROTECTED BY THE LAW? -- chapter 11 CONCLUSIONS and observations -- Appendix Cases involving Aboriginal people, 1836 to 1862 -- Notes -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Index.

In the planned colony of South Australia, Aboriginal people were to be British subjects, held accountable for their actions by English law and fully entitled to its protection. The reality, however, failed to meet the high expectations of London's reformers as British law struggled to protect the settlers' interests and failed to protect Aboriginal lives and birthrights. Revealing the efforts made by the judiciary to apply the legal equality policy as well as the frustrations of the Aborigines as they coped with the invasion of their lands, this account paints a clear picture of the South Australian frontier.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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