Close to Shore by Michael Capuzzo

Close to Shore by Michael Capuzzo

In a break from the contemporary focus on the law's response to inter-racial crime, Heather Douglas and Mark Finnane examine the foundations of criminal law's response to the victimization of one Indigenous person by another. Against the changing background of settler encounters with Australian Indigenous peoples, they show that the question of Indigenous amenability to imported British criminal law in Australia was not resolved in the nineteenth century and remains surprisingly open. Through a study of the policing and prosecution of Indigenous homicide, the book demonstrates how criminal law is consistently framed as the key test of sovereignty, whatever the challenges faced in effecting its jurisdiction. Drawing on a wealth of archival and case material, the authors conclude that settlers and Indigenous peoples still live in the shadow of empire, yet to reach an understanding of each other.

Michael Capuzzo is the bestselling author of Close to Shore and a former feature writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Miami Herald. His work has appeared in Esquire, Sports Illustrated, and Life, among other publications. He has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize four times and was a nominee for the National Magazine Award. He resides in the Philadelphia suburbs.

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ISBN 13	9780767904131
ISBN 10	0767904133
Title	Close to Shore
Author	Michael Capuzzo
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Broadway Books
Year published	2001-05-08
Number of pages	336
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