Abstract

In the mid-2010s, New South Wales (NSW) introduced statutory reforms responding to prominent fatal one-punch assaults in public and publican spaces – introducing mandatory sentences for a new class of offenses, and summary offenses – that to date appear to have targeted predominately young minority men. This paper argues that the reforms, inspired in NSW and other Australian states by one-punch assaults by intoxicated minority men against affluent young white men, are expressions of an proprietary right to larrikinism (a colonial-era cultural tradition of drunken, irreverent masculinity) in criminal law, rather than gestures to prevent or punish public violence at large. It further posits that the reforms are an expression of Australian criminal laws’ tendency to protect young white men and their interests, through benevolently safeguarding their exclusive right to mutual social violence and public recreational space and punishing others who use that violence and that space. It concludes that the reforms create white patriarchal rights to public space and the exclusive use of violence within it.

摘要

在2010年代中期，新南威尔士州（NSW）进行了法定改革，以应对在公共场所和公共场所发生的致命致命一拳袭击–对新的一类犯罪和即席犯罪引入了强制性刑罚–迄今为止看来都是针对性的主要是年轻的少数民族男子。本文认为，这项改革是在新南威尔士州和其他澳大利亚州受到醉酒的少数族裔男子对富裕的年轻白人一拳打法的启发而进行的，体现了独裁权（劳累主义的殖民时代文化传统，顽强的男子气概）在刑法中，而不是在总体上预防或惩罚公共暴力的手势。它进一步认为，这些改革体现了澳大利亚刑法保护白人青年及其利益的趋势，通过仁慈地维护他们对相互的社会暴力和公共娱乐场所的专有权，并惩罚使用这种暴力和空间的其他人。结论是，改革创造了白人对公共空间的重男轻女的权利，并在其中专有使用了暴力。