Critical Reflections on the Operation of Aboriginal Night Patrols

Title
Critical Reflections on the Operation of Aboriginal Night Patrols
Publication Date
2018
Author(s)
Scott, John
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9027-9425
Email: jscott6@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:jscott6
Barclay, Elaine
Sims, Margaret
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4686-4245
Email: msims7@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:msims7
Cooper, Trudi
Love, Terence
Editor
Editor(s): Kerry Carrington, Russell Hogg, John Scott and Maximo Sozzo
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Springer
Place of publication
Cham, Switzerland
Edition
1
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-65021-0_50
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/26331
Abstract
Much has been written about Aboriginal night patrols in recent decades; this has typically been ethnographic or evaluative. However, little work has been done to situate night patrols against wider historic trends in criminal justice and theorize their contribution in relation to neoliberal regimes of justice. Drawing on data collected as part of an evaluation of Aboriginal night patrols in New South Wales, this paper develops a critical approach to understanding night patrols. We interrogate the notion of ‘community’ - central to the philosophy and practice of night patrols - examining the limitations of community forms of justice in challenging dominant understandings of crime and addressing the structural causes of crime.
Link
Citation
The Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and the Global South, p. 1031-1053
ISBN
9783319650203
9783319650210
3319650211
Start page
1031
End page
1053

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