{"product_id":"common-law-and-colonised-peoples-studies-in-trinidad-and-western-australia-9781138612365","title":"Common Law and Colonised Peoples: Studies in Trinidad and Western Australia","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jeannine M. Purdy\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Sociology - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished in 1997. It is well known in Australia that Aboriginal people are currently massively over-represented amongst the prison population. Although it is not officially acknowledged to the same degree in Trinidad, it is also well-known that Afro-Trinidadians are over-represented in the prisons of that county. The disproportionate criminalisation of Aboriginal Australians and Afro-Trinidadians is interpreted by the author as a continuation and concretion of the myth of the barbaric, uncivilised and ungoverned 'savage; in opposition to which Western legal systems and societies have created their own identities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book departs from much contemporary analysis in this area by drawing strongly upon a historical analysis of the operations of the common law in Trinidad and Western Australia. By doing so, the book illustrates that race\/ethnicity and criminalisation are not necessarily contiguous. What such analysis does reveal is another and more constant dimension to criminalisation; and that is economic basis of many of the legal relations instituted under British derived legal systems with respect to colonised peoples. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46931443581079,"sku":"9781138612365","price":2988.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781138612365.webp?v=1771613466","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/common-law-and-colonised-peoples-studies-in-trinidad-and-western-australia-9781138612365","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}