Abstract
The bulk of criminological research in relation to Indigenous people has
been narrowly confined to "Indigenous crime" and traditionally sees state
criminal justice responses as the more or less technical application of laws,
policies and procedures to control crime. Most government-employed
"administrative" criminologists steer as far away as possible from the issue
of human rights.
This chapter argues that bringing a human rights perspective to criminology and
Indigenous people is an important task. It opens up a new level of research,
analysis and theory building, and can directly contribute to identifying and
remedying human rights abuses.