“They were treating me like a dog”: The colonial continuum of state harms against indigenous children in detention in the Northern Territory, Australia

Anthony, T

“They were treating me like a dog”: The colonial continuum of state harms against indigenous children in detention in the Northern Territory, Australia

Anthony, T

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Citation:: State Crime Journal, 2018, 7 (2), pp. 251 - 277
Issue Date:: 2018-09-01

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dc.contributor.author	Anthony, T https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0652-0731	en_US
dc.date.issued	2018-09-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	State Crime Journal, 2018, 7 (2), pp. 251 - 277	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	2046-6056	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/131142
dc.description.abstract	© 2018 Pluto Journals.All right reserved. The analytic lens of state crime can inform our understanding of the mistreatment of Indigenous children and young people in settler-colonial state institutions. Based on a critical analysis of the proceedings and findings of the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory (2016-2017), this article identifies state crimes of torture and abuse inflicted on Indigenous children in carceral and non-carceral institutions. These crimes breach international human rights laws but are more than a set of individual harms. They are also part of a pattern of ongoing structural violence that reasserts the settler-colonial state's sovereign position. This article identifies that the Royal Commission itself is complicit in reproducing state sovereignty. It argues that redressing state crimes against Indigenous children requires challenging the structural injustice of the settler-colonial state.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	State Crime Journal	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.13169/statecrime.7.2.0251	en_US
dc.title	“They were treating me like a dog”: The colonial continuum of state harms against indigenous children in detention in the Northern Territory, Australia	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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utslib.citation.volume	7	en_US
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utslib.for	1602 Criminology	en_US
utslib.for	1606 Political Science	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Law
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - SIC - Strengthening Indigenous Communities
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© 2018 Pluto Journals.All right reserved. The analytic lens of state crime can inform our understanding of the mistreatment of Indigenous children and young people in settler-colonial state institutions. Based on a critical analysis of the proceedings and findings of the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory (2016-2017), this article identifies state crimes of torture and abuse inflicted on Indigenous children in carceral and non-carceral institutions. These crimes breach international human rights laws but are more than a set of individual harms. They are also part of a pattern of ongoing structural violence that reasserts the settler-colonial state's sovereign position. This article identifies that the Royal Commission itself is complicit in reproducing state sovereignty. It argues that redressing state crimes against Indigenous children requires challenging the structural injustice of the settler-colonial state.

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