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dc.contributor.authorFinnane, Mark
dc.contributor.authorFinnane, Kieran
dc.contributor.editorArlie Loughnan and Murray Lee
dc.date.accessioned2011-11-28
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-01T22:42:18Z
dc.date.available2017-03-01T22:42:18Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.date.modified2012-02-10T02:02:08Z
dc.identifier.issn1034-5329
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/41841
dc.description.abstractThe 2010 prosecution of five white men in Alice Springs following the death of an Aboriginal man resulted in their conviction on manslaughter and subsequent sentencing to custodial terms of up to six years each. This article reviews the circumstances of the death and its aftermath to question whether another recent account of the case as an instance of ‘white supremacist settler violence’ in Central Australia can be sustained. Far from being typical of Central Australian homicides, this case was exceptional in its inter-racial character, and far from being exceptional in its sentencing result, this article shows that the prosecution resulted in outcomes for the defendants that appear consistent with the principles in other manslaughter cases. It is argued that interpretation of these events demands an account sensitive to the changing political and social contexts of Central Australia, as well as a contextual account of sentencing practices and outcomes in the Northern Territory jurisdiction.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.format.extent310712 bytes
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherUniversity of Sydney
dc.publisher.placeAustralia
dc.publisher.urihttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10345329.2011.12035921
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom255
dc.relation.ispartofpageto271
dc.relation.ispartofissue2
dc.relation.ispartofjournalCurrent Issues in Criminal Justice
dc.relation.ispartofvolume23
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHistorical Studies not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCourts and Sentencing
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLaw and Legal Studies not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCriminology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSociology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLaw
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode210399
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode160203
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode189999
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1602
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1608
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1801
dc.titleA death in Alice Springs
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codec1
gro.facultyArts, Education and Law
gro.rights.copyright© 2011, Published by The Institute of Criminology, University of Sydney. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
gro.date.issued2011
gro.hasfulltextFull Text
gro.griffith.authorFinnane, Mark J.


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