RT Book
T1 Discourse of ‘Dysfunction’: Sentencing Narratives and the Construction of Indigenous Offending
A1 Bond, Christine
A2 Jeffries, Samantha
LA English
YR 2011
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1866585185
AB 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.Sydney Institute of Criminology; School of Social Sciences at the University of Western Sydne