[Anthropgrad] CAEPR Sem: THURSDAY 13 Nov 2008: Kate Sullivan: Indigenous relations with the Justice System in NSW"

[Katarina Ferro]

Thursday 13^th November, CAEPR Seminar Room, Hanna Neumann Building, 
12.30pm.

Indigenous relations with the Justice System in NSW

Pre-field Seminar by Kate Sullivan, PhD Scholar, CAEPR

 
Aboriginal people are imprisoned at 15 times the rate of non-Indigenous 
people.  A great deal the over-representation of Indigenous people in 
prison is a result of re-offence. Much of the literature has focused on 
the why this over representation occurs most often relying on broad 
statistical analysis.  Some post colonial analysis has placed emphasis 
on resistance theories. There has been little or no attempt to 
understand Aboriginal pathways into and out of the criminal justice 
system from the perspective of Aboriginal offenders themselves. Despite 
the high levels of offence and re-offence most people cease offending by 
the time they reach 40 years of age.  The aim of the project is to 
understand the circumstances and motivations of serial offenders' 
desistance from crime. This seminar will briefly review the literature 
about desistance from crime drawing out some themes for exploration in 
the field and explore how an anthropological methodology including 
recording the life histories of ex-offenders (located in a regional 
centre of NSW) might inform policy development and the largely 
structuralist approaches of criminology. This ethnographic approach is 
designed to record the lived experience of offenders and their families, 
to reveal the nature of their sociality and to add richness to 
criminological explanations.

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