The ideas in this article owe a great deal to my unpaid teachers, the students in law and legal studies at La Trobe University. I wish particularly to thank Charander Singh and Luan Danaan, whose generously shared expert knowledges continue to push my thinking much further in directions it might otherwise not go. To critical colleagues, Helen Brown, Brendan Cassidy, Sandy Cook, Sue Davies, Ian Duncanson, Judith Grbich, Adrian Howe, Kate Lappin, Rob McQueen and Margaret Thornton, I owe thanks, for their intelligence and willingness to promote equality in every aspect of their professional practice, for the example of their intellectual and personal risk-taking and for their lessons about the costs of not taking these risks. I am (again) indebted to Judith Grbich, Ian Duncanson and Anne Orford for their insightful comments and their encouragement; I hasten to emphasise that I have taken a tack of my own here.
I borrow the idea from Maurice Schatzman and from Patricia Williams: WilliamsP.J., The Alchemy of Race and Rights, Harvard University Press, 1991.
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Crime and Criminology has been team taught by a number of critical teachers over the last eight or so years. This course, once a full unit, has recently been cut, without consultation with the lecturers, to a half unit. The course has arguably provided the grounding for the outstanding feminist poststructuralist research done by the majority of the School's high achieving and Honours and postgraduate students over this time.
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I am talking about the radical difference between the representations students get from mainstream human science workers, criminal justice personnel, or academics writing from a liberal perspective, and representations made by people who are at liberty to control the content and form of the representations of their own experience of the criminal justice system. Performances by ex-prisoners from Somebody's Daughter theatre company, and writing by Aboriginal activists and scholars are examples of the latter.
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DuncansonI., ‘Review Essay: Sexual Harassment and the Politics of Culture: Incident(ally) at Ormond College’, (1998) 10Australian Feminist Law Journal, pp.149–60; ScottJ., ‘The Campaign Against Political Correctness: What's Really at Stake’, in WilliamsJ. (ed.), PC Wars: Politics and Theory in the Academy, Routledge, 1995, pp.22–43.
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See, for example, Muller-HillB., Murderous Science: Elimination by Scientific Selection of Jews, Gypsies and Others, Germany, 1933–1945, Oxford University Press, 1988.
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BergerJ., Ways of Seeing, BBC and Penguin, 1979; TheweleitK., Male Fantasies Vol I: Women, Floods, Bodies, History (trans. ConwayStephen with CarterErica and TurnerChris), University of Minnesota Press, 1987; TheweleitK., Male Fantasies Vol II: Male Bodies, Psychoanalysis and the White Terror, (trans. TurnerChris and CarterErica), Polity, 1989.
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SaidE., Culture and Imperialism, Vintage, 1994.
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HooksBell, Killing Rage: Ending Racism, Henry Holt, 1995.
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A path-breaking work is SaidE., Orientalism, Vintage, 1979; the literature is now vast. See the Australian Feminist Law Journal for cultural studies perspectives on law.
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A good introduction to the representation of Aboriginal people in Australia is LangtonM., ‘Well, I heard it on the radio and I saw it on the television …’, Australian Film Commission, 1993.
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FoucaultM., The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences, Tavistock, 1986.
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Rhodes-LittleA., ‘Confidentiality (con fides: To keep faith) Keeping Faith? With Whom? A Poststructural Analysis of the Issue of Confidentiality for Violent Men’, Just Policy(forthcoming); DonzelotJ., The Policing of Families, Hutchinson, 1979.
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HooksBell, Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representation, Routledge, 1994; YoungA., ‘In the Eyes of the Law: The Look of Violence’, (1997) 8Australian Feminist Law Journal9–26; BergerJ., About Looking, Writers and Readers, 1980; BergerJ., Ways of Seeing, BBC and Penguin, 1979; KappelerS., The Pornography of Representation, Polity Press, 1986; de LauretisT., ‘The Violence of Rhetoric: Considerations on Representation and Gender’, in ArmstrongNancy and TennenhouseLeonard (eds), The Violence of Representation: Literature and the History of Violence, Routledge, 1989, pp. 239–59.
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Early, path-breaking courses have been Grbich'sJudithGender, Law and Society, Howe'sAdrianSex, Violence and Criminality, Duncanson'sIanLegal History, Orford'sAnnePublic International Law, Bird'sGretaAborigines and the Law, Tomlins'ChrisCritical Legal Studies, Jones'KelvinLaw and Economics and Coventry'sGaryDeviance and the Law.
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Who Killed Malcolm Smith?Videorecording, Linfield, NSW, Film Australia; Report of the Inquiry into the Death of Malcolm Smith by Commissioner WoottonJ.H., 1989. Canberra, Australian Government Publishing Service.
OrfordA., ‘The Politics of Collective Security’, (1996) 17Michigan Journal of International Law, 373.
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Rhodes-LittleA., Sovereign/Body: Towards a Theory of Deviant Writing as a Domain of Constraint on Civil Subjects, Unpublished Doctoral Thesis, 1996; OrfordA., ‘The Uses of Sovereignty in the New Imperial Order’, (1996) 6Australian Feminist Law Journal63–86.
