Aborigines: A Comparative Analysis of Institutionalized Racism and Violence (From The Australian Criminal Justice System: The Mid 1980s, P 34-56, 1986, Duncan Chappell and Paul Wilson, eds. -- See NCJ-110891)

• NCJ Number: 110893
• Author(s): C Stafford
• Date Published: 1986
• Length: 23 pages
• Sale Source: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This paper compares racially-based and minority-based police brutality in South Africa, Northern Ireland, and Australia.

Abstract

In South Africa, both law and practice give police broad discretion in the handling of detainees. Many blacks have died in police custody, and police have not been held accountable or responsible for the incidents. The police in Northern Ireland have both physically and psychologically tortured alleged members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army. Australia has a long history of discrimination against Aborigines, and this has manifested itself in their treatment by police. Aborigines have died under violent and suspicious circumstances while in police custody in the 1980's. The inquest has been used as the primary means for determining cause of death in these incidents, and the police are so closely associated with the inquest investigations that an unbiased result is unlikely. A primary means of reforming police racist actions is a police personnel selection procedure that screens out those with racist attitudes. 88 footnotes.