'Every Mother's Son is Guilty': Policing the Kimberley Frontier of Western Australia, 1882-1905Apollo Books, 2016 - 632 páginas "This is a marvellous contribution by Chris Owen to the understanding of the role the Western Australian police force played in the colonial expansion into the Kimberley district of Western Australia."--Senator Patrick Dodson, Yawuru Elder ***Chris Owen provides a compelling account of policing in the Kimberley district from 1882, when police were established in the district, until 1905 when Dr. Walter Roth's controversial Royal Commission into the treatment of Aboriginal people was released. Owen's achievement is to take elements of all the pre-existing historiography and test them against a rigorous archival investigation. In doing so, a fuller understanding of the complex social, economic, and political changes occurring in Western Australia during the period are exposed. The policing of Aboriginal people changed from one of protection under law to one of punishment and control. The subsequent violence of colonial settlement and the associated policing and criminal justice system that developed, often of questionable legality, was what Royal Commissioner Roth termed a 'brutal and outrageous state of affairs.' Every Mother's Son is Guilty is a significant contribution to Australian and colonial criminal justice history. Subject: History, Aboriginal Studies, Criminal Justice, policing] |
Índice
The Only Remaining Portion of the Large Continent | 68 |
Arrival | 110 |
Aboriginal Outlaws | 273 |
New Methods of | 370 |
In No Other country are the Aborigines | 428 |
Appendices | 457 |
Bibliography | 599 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Aboriginal groups Aborigines Department Aborigines Protection Board Alexander Forrest allegations April Armitage arrest August Australian History Bolton Broome Bunuba Canberra cattle killing Clement colonists Commissioner of Police Commissioner Phillips Cons Constable December Derby Police Station Derby Station Durack early East Kimberley European February File Fitzroy River Fremantle frontier gaol Gazette goldfields Government Resident Governor Halls Creek Hesperian Press horses ibid Jandamarra John Forrest July kilometres Kimberley District Kimberley Pastoral Industry Kimberley police land Lennard River Letterbook massacre Melbourne murder native assistants native police Native Question Noongar North West Northern Territory November numbers Occurrence Book October Ord River parliament pastoral stations pastoralists patrol Payne Perth Pilmer police party police records Prinsep Queensland Resident Magistrate Roebourne Roth Report Sergeant settlers sheep shooting shot spears SROWA Sub Inspector Drewry Sydney Troy UWA Press WAPD West Australian Western Australia Western Australian government Western Australian police Western Mail wrote