Type:	Book Chapter
Title:	Lessons from the mediation obsession: ensuring that sentencing 'alternatives' focus on Indigenous self-determination
Other Titles:	Restorative justice and family violence
Authors:	Behrendt, Larissa
Keywords:	Restorative justice;Indigenous issues
Year:	2002
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Notes:	Adopting an holistic approach, this chapter provides an overview of some of the ways in which dominant legal systems have discriminated and continue to discriminate against Indigenous communities, highlighting the manner in which it conflicts with traditional Aboriginal values and practices. Alternative forms of dispute resolution -- in particular, mediation -- are then examined as a possible mode of challenging the inherent bias of the mainstream legal system, and it is suggested that in many ways, restorative justice solutions are equally inadequate. Advocates a ‘ground up’ approach which enables communities to develop and implement their own responses to family violence and places greater emphasis on community empowerment and self-determination.
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/11191
ISBN:	9780521521659
Physical description:	xi, 288 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Appears in Collections:	Book Chapters

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