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Indigenous Australians

Auty, Kate, and Lynette Russell. Hunt Them, Hang Them: ‘The Tasmanians’ in Port Phillip 1841-42.  Melbourne: Justice Press, 2016.

Brock, Peggy. “Protecting Colonial Interests: Aborigines and Criminal Justice.” Journal of Australian Studies 21, no. 53 (1997): 120-20.

Choo, Christine, and Chris Owen. “Deafening Silences: Understanding Frontier Relations and the Discourse of Police Files through the Kimberley Police Records.” Studies in Western Australian History, no. 23 (2003): 129-56.

Conor, Liz. ‘The “Drover’s Boy” and Indigenous Women’s Unthinkable Consent’. Gender Violence in Australia: Historical Perspectives, edited by Alana Piper and Ana Stevenson. Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2019. 95-113.

Connors, Libby. “Uncovering the shameful: Sexual violence on an Australian colonial frontier,” in Legacies of Violence: Rendering the Unspeakable Past in Modern Australia, ed. Robert Mason (New York: Berghan Books, 2017).

Douglas, Heather, and Mark Finnane. Indigenous Crime and Settler Law: White Sovereignty after Empire.  Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Evans, Julie. “Colonialism and the Rule of the Law: The Case of South Australia.” In Crime and Empire, 1840-1940: Criminal Justice in Local and Global Context, edited by Graeme Dunstall Barry S. Godfrey, 57-75. Cullompton: Willan Publishing, 2005.

Finnane, Mark, and Andy Kaladelfos. “Race and Justice in an Australian Court: Prosecuting Homicide in Western Australia, 1830-1954.” Australian Historical Studies 47, no. 3 (2016): 443-61.

Finnane, Mark, and John McGuire. “The Uses of Punishment and Exile: Aborigines in Colonial Australia.” Punishment & Society 3, no. 2 (2001): 279-98.

Finnane, Mark, and Jonathan Richards. “Aboriginal Violence and State Response: Histories, Policies, Legacies in Queensland 1860-1940.” Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 43, no. 2 (2010): 238-62.

Finnane, Mark, and Jonathan Richards. “You’ll Get Nothing out of It? The Inquest, Police and Aboriginal Deaths in Colonial Queensland.” Australian Historical Studies 35, no. 123 (2004): 84-105.

Finnane, Mark. “A Politics of Prosecution: The Conviction of Wonnerwerry and the Exoneration of Jerry Durack in Western Australia 1898.” Law in Context 33, no. 1 (2015): 60-73.

Finnane, Mark. “Crimes of Violence, Crimes of Empire? .” In Crime and Empire, 1840-1940: Criminal Justice in Local and Global Context, edited by Graeme Dunstall Barry S. Godfrey, 43-56. Cullompton: Willan Publishing, 2005.

Finnane, Mark. “Payback, Customary Law and Criminal Law in Colonised Australia.” International Journal of the Sociology of Law 29, no. 4 (2001): 293-310.

Finnane, Mark. Colonisation and Incarceration: The Criminal Justice System and Aboriginal Australians.  London: SRMCAS, University of London, 1997.

Ford, Lisa. Settler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in America and Australia, 1788-1836.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010.

Foster, Meg. “Murder for White Consumption? Jimmy Governor and the Bush Ballad.” In Archiving Settler Colonialism: Culture, Race, Space, edited by Yu-ting Huang and Rebecca Weaver-Hightower, 173-89. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2018.

Foster, Meg. “The Forgotten War of 1900: Jimmy Governor and the Aboriginal People of Wollar.” Australian Historical Studies 50, no. 3 (2019): 1-16.

Grant, Elizabeth. “The Incarceration of Australian Aboriginal Women and Children.” In Silent System: Forgotten Australians and the Institutionalisation of Women and Children, edited by Paul Ashton and Jacqueline Z. Wilson, 43-58. North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2014.

Harman, Kristyn, and Elizabeth Grant. “‘Impossible to Detain … without Chains’? The Use of Restraints on Aboriginal People in Policing and Prisons.” History Australia 11, no. 3 (2014): 157-76.

Harman, Kristyn. Aboriginal Convicts: Australian, Khoisan and Māori Exiles, UNSW Press, 2012.

Harman, Kristyn. “‘The Art of Cutting Stone’: Aboriginal Convict Labour in Nineteenth Century New South Wales & Van Diemen’s Land.” N. Fijn, I. Keen, C. Lloyd & M. Pickering (eds.), Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies II: Historical Engagements and Current Enterprises, ANU e-Press, Canberra, 2012.

Harman, Kristyn. “‘The Same Measure of Justice’: Aboriginal Convicts in the Australian Penal Colonies.” Australian Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2009, pp. 1-20.

Harman, Kristyn and Hamish Maxwell-Stewart. “Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in Colonial Australia, 1805 – 1860s.” Journal of Colonialism & Colonial History 13, no. 2 (2012): 157-176.

Haskins, Victoria. “‘A better chance’? Sexual Abuse and the apprenticeship of Aboriginal girls under the NSW Aborigines Protection Board.” Aboriginal History 28 (2004): 33-58.

Haskins, Victoria. “‘Down in the Gully and Just Outside the Garden Walk’: White Women and the Sexual Abuse of Aboriginal Women on a Colonial Australian Frontier.” History Australia 10, no. 1 (2013): 11-34.

Hunter, Ann. A Different Kind of ‘Subject’: Colonial Law in Aboriginal-European Relations in Nineteenth Century Western Australia 1829-61. North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2012.

Ireland, Haidee. “The Case of Agnes Jones: Tracing Aboriginal Presence in Sydney through Criminal Justice Records.” History Australia 10, no. 3 (2013): 236-51.

Kaladelfos, Amanda. ‘The “Condemned Criminals”: Sexual Violence, Race and Manliness in Colonial Australia.’ Women’s History Review, vol. 21, issue 5 (2012): 697-714.

Morris, John. “The Japanese and the Aborigines: An Overview of the Efforts to Stop the Prostitution of Coastal and Island Women.” Journal of Northern Territory History, no. 21 (2010): 15-36.

Pope, Alan. One Law for All?: Aboriginal People and Criminal Law in Early South Australia. Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2011.

Purdy, Jeannine M. Common Law and Colonised Peoples: Studies in Trinidad and Western Australia. Aldershot: Dartmouth Publishing; Brookfield: Ashgate, 1997.

Richards, Jonathan. “‘There Is No Truth Whatever as Regards Any Aboriginal Being Flogged by the Police’: Coen Police Camp, 1933, Cape York Peninsula.” In Land and Language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country, edited by Jean-Christophe Verstraete and Diane Hafner, 241-62. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016.

Robinson, Shirleene. “Race and Reformation: Treatment of Children in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Australia.” In Crime over Time: Temporal Perspectives on Crime and Punishment in Australia, edited by Robyn Lincoln and Shirleene Robinson, 61-81. (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2010.)

Rowse, Tim. “The moral world of the native mounted police.” law&history 5 (2018): 1-23.

Silverstein, Ben. “‘Possibly They Did Not Know Themselves’: The Ambivalent Government of Sex and Work in the Northern Territory Aboriginals Ordinance 1918.” History Australia 14, no. 3 (2017): 344-60.

Thomas, J. E. “Crime and Society.” In A New History of Western Australia, edited by C. T. Stannage, 636-51. Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press, 1981.

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