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Criminal Law and Colonial Subject

Paula Jane Byrne

出版	Cambridge University Press, 2003-12-18
主題	History / Australia & New ZealandPolitical Science / Colonialism & Post-ColonialismLaw / Criminal Law / GeneralSocial Science / Sociology / General
ISBN	05215229439780521522946
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=WgXNzAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

This book explores the relationship of a colonial people with English law and looks at the way in which the practice of law developed among the ordinary population. Paula Jane Byrne traces the boundaries among property, sexuality and violence, drawing from court records, dispositions and proceedings. She asks: What did ordinary people understand by guilt, suspicion, evidence and the term "offense"? She illuminates the values and beliefs of the emerging colonial consciousness and the complexity of power relations in the colony. The book reconstructs the legal process with great tetail and richness and is able to evoke the everyday lives of people in the colonial NSW.