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Coronial Inquests, Indigenous Suicide and the Colonial Narrative
Critical Criminology ( IF 2.109 ) Pub Date : 2021-07-16 , DOI: 10.1007/s10612-021-09578-w
Belinda Carpenter 1 , Megan Harris 1 , Steph Jowett 1 , Gordon Tait 1 , Rebecca Scott Bray 2
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This article explores the over-representation of Indigenous people in suicide statistics internationally as indicative of the broader impacts of colonialism. The purpose of this discussion in a special issue of critical criminology is to widen the focus beyond criminal justice over-representation and to explore the ways in which research, social policy, and legal institutions align to transform systematically the colonial condition into a medical one. This transformation occurs in three ways. First, a lower evidentiary standard of proof for suicide determination by coroners when the victim is Indigenous is based on a coronial supposition that Indigenous Australians cannot produce a workable response to their disadvantage. Suicide is then interpreted as an understandable response, if not a reasonable one. Second, a focus by suicide researchers on individual risk factors is treated by coroners as an indication of vulnerability to suicide and ignores the collective rates of risk among Indigenous people that cannot equate with the pathological weaknesses of the individual. Third, a paternalistic approach to Indigenous people and communities in social policy positions them as failing subjects of modernity, supposedly requiring a range of government interventions to ensure Indigenous wellbeing. Based on interviews with thirty-two coroners across Australia, as well as an exploration of inquests into clusters of Indigenous suicide in Australia, we argue that differential treatment of Indigenous people in coronial practice is a contemporary feature of the Australian legal, policy, and social landscape, and that the insights are as relevant to criminal justice jurisdictions, as they are to coronial or medico-legal ones.



中文翻译:

死因调查、土著自杀和殖民叙事

本文探讨了土著人在国际自杀统计数据中的过度代表,以表明殖民主义的更广泛影响。在批判犯罪学的特刊中进行的讨论的目的是将焦点扩大到刑事司法的过度代表性之外,并探索研究、社会政策和法律机构如何协调以系统地将殖民条件转变为医学条件的方式。这种转变以三种方式发生。首先,当受害者是原住民时,验尸官确定自杀的证据标准较低,这是基于一个死因假设,即澳大利亚原住民无法对他们的劣势做出可行的回应。自杀然后被解释为一种可以理解的反应,如果不是一个合理的反应。第二,自杀研究人员对个人风险因素的关注被验尸官视为易受自杀的迹象,而忽略了无法等同于个人病理弱点的土著人的集体风险率。第三,在社会政策中对土著人民和社区采取家长式的方法将他们定位为现代性的失败主体,据称需要一系列政府干预来确保土著人民的福祉。基于对澳大利亚 32 名验尸官的采访,以及对澳大利亚土著自杀集群调查的探索,我们认为在死因实践中对土著人的区别对待是澳大利亚法律、政策和社会的当代特征。风景,

更新日期:2021-07-16
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