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Sep 20, 2019 · There is powerful evidence that the colonization of Indigenous people was and is a crime, and that that crime is on-going. Achieving historical colonial goals often meant committing acts that were criminal even at the time.
Viewing colonialism as a crime is not simply about recognising that the land was stolen and the original inhabitants harmed; it is about law’s power to define who is to be considered a worthy victim (Christie, 1986), and who can get away with murder.
May 9, 2006 · While the national liberation movements of the post-World War II era brought formal colonization to an end in many parts of the world, Indigenous peoples still live in settler-colonial states, and there are on-going struggles to reclaim control of traditional territories.
Nov 13, 2023 · Mere decades ago, the United States forcefully sterilized citizens of these nations 3 and removed a quarter or more of Native children from their families. 4 At the same time, the Supreme Court stripped these governments of the ability to police crimes in their own communities, 5 unleashing widespread sexual violence and leaving more than one ...
Mar 1, 2017 · I argue that a colonial criminology perspective assists in identifying power distinctions that construct notions of difference, thus providing a more nuanced understanding of crime, violence, and criminalization as a response to oppression and alienation.
- Sanna King
- 01 March 2017
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- 11, Issue3
Aug 24, 2020 · Few theories of justice have addressed the ongoing problems posed by the historical reality of colonialism. Cases relating to colonial crimes have fallen outside contemporary understandings of atrocity crime or law as an institution itself.
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Although a first step towards colonization had already been made in 1822, when Liberia was acquired thanks to the support of the American Colonial Society, a systematic colonial policy was not pursued until 1898, when, inter alia, Cuba and the Philippines were taken away from Spain.
