{"product_id":"common-law-and-colonised-peoples-jeannine-m-purdy-9781138612334","title":"Common Law and Colonised Peoples: Studies in Trinidad and Western Australia","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeannine M. Purdy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1138612332\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781138612334\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/30\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 309\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Jeannine M. Purdy","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48087752802559,"sku":"9781138612334","price":170.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5f896904-418d-42e5-aac8-735ef5204709.jpg?v=1769101202","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/common-law-and-colonised-peoples-jeannine-m-purdy-9781138612334","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}