The 'Civilizing Mission': Race And The Construction Of Crime
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Pages: Good
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A rigorous work of critical criminology and postcolonial scholarship, The 'Civilizing Mission': Race and the Construction of Crime argues that the concept of crime itself was deliberately constructed as a tool of racial domination throughout the history of European colonialism. Greta Bird uncovers how colonial legal systems and ideologies were deployed to pathologize Indigenous and non-white populations, framing their resistance and cultural practices as criminal in order to justify imperial control. With unflinching academic authority, the work details the mechanisms by which law, race, and power intersected to produce enduring structures of inequality that persist in contemporary criminal justice systems. Drawing on historical and sociological analysis, Bird illustrates how the so-called civilizing mission was never a benevolent project but rather a calculated apparatus of surveillance, punishment, and dispossession. This essential text challenges readers to reconsider the foundational assumptions of criminology through the lens of race and colonial history.
Author: Greta Bird
Format: Paperback
Published: 1987, Faculty of Law, Monash University
Genre: Society & culture
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A rigorous work of critical criminology and postcolonial scholarship, The 'Civilizing Mission': Race and the Construction of Crime argues that the concept of crime itself was deliberately constructed as a tool of racial domination throughout the history of European colonialism. Greta Bird uncovers how colonial legal systems and ideologies were deployed to pathologize Indigenous and non-white populations, framing their resistance and cultural practices as criminal in order to justify imperial control. With unflinching academic authority, the work details the mechanisms by which law, race, and power intersected to produce enduring structures of inequality that persist in contemporary criminal justice systems. Drawing on historical and sociological analysis, Bird illustrates how the so-called civilizing mission was never a benevolent project but rather a calculated apparatus of surveillance, punishment, and dispossession. This essential text challenges readers to reconsider the foundational assumptions of criminology through the lens of race and colonial history.