Re-imagining youth justice: Cultural contestation in the Kimberley region of Australia since the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody

Theoretical Criminology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 481-498

  Blagg, Harry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aboriginal justice; contestation; cross cultural comparison; cultural; decolonizing; post colonization; youth

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869993066     PISSN: 13624806     EISSN: 14617439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1362480611436360     Document Type: Article

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