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Title: Discourse of ‘Dysfunction’: Sentencing Narratives and the Construction of Indigenous Offending
Authors: Jeffries, Samantha
Bond, Christine
Sydney Institute of Criminology
Keywords: dysfunction
Indigenous offending
critical criminology
Issue Date: 17-May-2011
Publisher: Sydney Institute of Criminology
Series/Report no.: ANZCCC2010
Abstract: Using a narrative analysis of judges sentencing remarks in South Australian higher courts, we explore whether broader discourses ‘dysfunction’ ‘disorganisation’, ‘deprivation’ and ‘pathology’ impact understandings of Indigenous offending and subsequent constructions of Indigenous defendants in the sentencing process.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7375
ISBN: 978-1-74210-224-5
Department/Unit/Centre: Sydney Institute of Criminology
Appears in Collections:The Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference Proceedings 2010

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