Aboriginal Criminology and the Postmodern Condition: From Anomie to Anomaly

摘要: The high rates of Aboriginal overrepresentation in the criminal justice systems white "settler" societies are conventionally explained terms pervasive effects cultural dispossession as well social and economic disadvantage dislocation. These have been recently cited to account for wide regional variations offending patterns countries such Canada Australia; however, these approaches more attuned pathologies transition into modernity rather than current environment postmodernity, which is characterized by unstable identity, indeterminate processes, a global national positioning people. This paper explores possibility reconciling classical postmodern perspectives through some insights Baudrillard (1988, 1993), whose thinking derives from distinctive Durkheimian tradition pathology (Gane, 1995), together with neo-Durkheimian theories Mary Douglas (1970, 1978) on processes identity order. reconstruction rests argument that anomaly has replaced anomie generative dynamic people's encounter mainstream system. objective this exercise produce model positions postmodernist interactions between patterns, spatial representations culture against founding assumptions immediate post-assimilationist era, represented most clearly socio-political formation "welfare colonialism." As such, article addresses theoretical implications sociological arguments developing new directions criminology under emerging tensions anomalies postmodernization.