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Every Mother's Son is Guilty: Policing the Kimberley Frontier of Western Australia 1882-1905
Contributor(s): Owen, Chris (Author)

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ISBN: 1742586686     ISBN-13: 9781742586687
Publisher: University of Western Australia Press
OUR PRICE: $36.10  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: November 2016
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | Australia & New Zealand - General
- History | Modern - 19th Century
- History | Modern - 20th Century
Dewey: 994.140
LCCN: 2017304091
Physical Information: 1.44" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" L (2.17 lbs) 648 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Australian
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
 
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Publisher Description:
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]
 
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