Thalia Anthony
Biographic Data
| ID | 222359 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thalia Anthony |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thalia |
| FAMILY NAME | Anthony |
| SIGNATURE | ANTHONY T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Technology Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0652-0731 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Palgrave Handbook of Racial Injustice and Resistance
Colonial-Carceral Violence: The Pains of Imprisonment for First Nations Women
This article explores the structural violence that the colony inflicts on Aboriginal women in prisons. Based on two large-scale NSW studies, it highlights the impacts of imprisonment on Aboriginal women’s health, families and social, cultural and emotional wellbeing. The stories of Aboriginal women in prison are more than a glimpse into the ‘pains of imprisonment’. The walls, bars and cages do not define the totality of the pains imposed on Abori…
The Dreamworld deaths: Corporate crime and the slumber of the law
On Tuesday
J. Balint, Keeping Hold of Justice-Encounters Between Law and Colonialism
Back Off! Stop Making US Illegal: The Criminalisation of Homelessness in Australia
In Australia, vagrancy and public order laws have been used to criminalise homelessness since colonisation. Such laws have never provided an effective deterrent against ‘offending’ because most crimes committed by homeless people are survival-related or otherwise associated with their homeless status. It is generally agreed that a welfare-oriented rather than a punitive approach is needed if these ‘crimes’ are to be prevented, however the perspec…
Indigenous Housing Rights and Colonial Sovereignty: Self-Determination and Housing Rights beyond a White Possessive Frame
Through the lens of Aileen Moreton-Robinson's ‘white possessive logics’, this article addresses a series of legal cases concerning inhumane Aboriginal housing in the Northern Territory of Australia. It critiques successive government policies in relation to First Nations people since the colonisation of the Northern Territory in the nineteenth century, setting the cases in their historical context of ongoing subordination of First Nations people …
Hyper-policing the Homeless: Lived Experience and the Perils of Benevolent and Malevolent Policing
Drawing on interviews with 164 people experiencing homelessness across Australia, this article discusses the concept of hyper-policing to account for excessive police interventions. Hyper-policing is exhibited in the sheer numbers of police apprehensions of people experiencing homelessness (quantitative aspect) and the extreme use of force (qualitative aspect). By deploying Wacquant’s (Daedalus 139(3):74–90, 2010) notion of hyper-incarceration in…
Unsettling Colonial Automobilities: Criminalisation and Contested Sovereignties
Exploring the vehicle’s role in imposing colonialism on Indigenous people, this book proposes an Indigenous automobility that reclaims sovereignty over place and centricity.
Culture, Strengths, and Risk: The Language of Pre-Sentence Reports in Indigenous Sentencing Courts and Mainstream Courts
Pre-sentence reports (PSRs) provide important information about an individual’s background and circumstances to assist judicial officers in the sentencing process. The present study analyzed PSRs for 63 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people sentenced by either an Indigenous sentencing court or a mainstream court in the Australian State of Victoria. Using natural language processing techniques, our analyses revealed few differences between …
Indigenous Experience Reports: Addressing Silence and Deficit Discourse in Sentencing
The hyper-incarceration of Indigenous Australians urges analysis of unconscious bias, the application of criminogenic risk assumptions, and structural impediments to consideration of Indigenous experience in sentencing. Disrupting deficit-based discourses requires new approaches to sentencing, in which First Nations voices are heard. This article examines all 149 sentences delivered in the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory between…
An Anti-Colonial Approach to Abolition: Building Intentional Relations
Anti-Colonial Abolitionism: International Context
is a First Nations woman born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She is currently serving a life sentence. Sheri served approximately 17 years inside and has an incredible amount of lived experience under her belt. She has been free on full parole for over 10 years and is a great mother to a 9-year-old son. She is also a senior member of the Indigenous Support Workers Project (ISWP) -a grassroots organization based in Montr al, Qu bec. Sheri makes fried/bake…
Introduction to special edition: Covid-19, Criminal Justice and Carceralism – Critical Reflections and Change
This piece provides an introduction to the special issue on COVID-19, Criminal Justice and Carceralism – Critical Reflections and Change. It highlights the backdrop of recent events, including the pandemic and Black Lives Matter movement, before articulating both the problems with penalty in the pandemic and the possibilities for justice
Anti-colonial Carceral Abolition
Anti-colonial Carceral Abolition
The perils of positivism in the NT Royal Commission into youth detention: The case for a post-positivist frame for First Nations justice
The Royal Commission into the Detention and Protection of Children in the Northern Territory (2016–17) was set up by the Australian Government following a national television broadcast of guards inflicting tear gas, physical attacks, mechanical restraint chairs, hooding and indefinite segregation on First Nations children. Through an examination of the Royal Commission's establishment, proceedings and outcomes, this article identifies how First N…
Introduction to the Griffith Law Review Commission of Inquiry special issue
These introductory remarks outline the themes and articles that comprise this special issue of the Griffith Law Review on ‘Commissions of Inquiry’. The guest editors explain how the work collected
Transcending Colonial Legacies: From Criminal Justice to Indigenous Women’s Healing
Decolonising Criminology: Imagining Justice in a Postcolonial World
Restorative Justice or Indigenous Justice
This chapter tests the boundaries between mainstream justice and Indigenous justice. We suggest that Restorative Justice and Indigenous justice have to be understood as distinct and fundamentally different projects. Restorative Justice, at least in its present incarnation, may not survive a decolonising turn because, despite claims to the contrary, it is a modernist, Euro-north American concept concerned with reforming what remains an essentially…
Travelling our way or no way: The collision of automobilities in Australian Northern Territory judicial narratives
The regulation of driving and cars has taken on increasingly criminal guises. Apart from the role of insurance companies and motor vehicle registries, criminal law has stepped in to penalise drivers and car owners through more draconian measures. This article examines the problems that this presents for Indigenous drivers whose concepts of automobility are at odds with those of the nation state. It details the judicial narratives of this collisio…
They Were Treating Me Like a Dog”: The Colonial Continuum of State Harms Against Indigenous Children in Detention in the Northern Territory, Australia
The analytic lens of state crime can inform our understanding of the mistreatment of Indigenous children and young people in settler-colonial state institutions. Based on a critical analysis of the proceedings and findings of the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory (2016–2017), this article identifies state crimes of torture and abuse inflicted on Indigenous children in carceral and non-carcera…
Who are the Experts Here: Recognition of Aboriginal women and community workers in research and beyond
This paper explores how Indigenous-centred methodologies are crucial to the design and conduct of research projects that seek to have meaningful outcomes for Indigenous women and communities. We draw on experiential observations of an advisory group led by Indigenous experts that was part of the Social and Cultural Resilience and Emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal Mothers in prison (SCREAM) research project. From their experience we identify lesso…
Indigenous People, Crime and Punishment
Indigenous People, Crime and Punishment examines criminal sentencing courts’ changing characterisations of Indigenous peoples’ identity, culture and postcolonial status. Focusing largely on Australian Indigenous peoples, but drawing also on the Canadian experiences, Thalia Anthony critically analyses how the judiciary have interpreted Indigenous difference. Through an analysis of Indigenous sentencing remarks over a fifty year period in a number …
STOP in the Name of Who's Law? Driving and the Regulation of Contested Space in Central Australia
This article emerges from a study of the incidence of Indigenous driving offending conducted by the authors in the Northern Territory (NT) from 2006 to 2010 on two central Australian communities. It demonstrates how new patterns of law enforcement, set in train by an 'Emergency Intervention' in 2007, ostensibly to tackle child sexual abuse and family violence, led to a dramatic increase in the criminalisation of Indigenous people for driving-rela…
STOP in the Name of Who's Law? Driving and the Regulation of Contested Space in Central Australia
This article emerges from a study of the incidence of Indigenous driving offending conducted by the authors in the Northern Territory (NT) from 2006 to 2010 on two central Australian communities. It demonstrates how new patterns of law enforcement, set in train by an 'Emergency Intervention' in 2007, ostensibly to tackle child sexual abuse and family violence, led to a dramatic increase in the criminalisation of Indigenous people for driving-rela…
Who are the Experts Here: Recognition of Aboriginal women and community workers in research and beyond
This paper explores how Indigenous-centred methodologies are crucial to the design and conduct of research projects that seek to have meaningful outcomes for Indigenous women and communities. We draw on experiential observations of an advisory group led by Indigenous experts that was part of the Social and Cultural Resilience and Emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal Mothers in prison (SCREAM) research project. From their experience we identify lesso…
Reconciliation and Conciliation: The Irreconcilable Dilemma of the 1965 'Equal' Wage Case for Aboriginal Station Workers
The Commonwealth Arbitration and Reconciliation Commission in 1965 presided over a landmark case concerning the inclusion of Indigenous workers in the Cattle Industry (Northern Territory) Award 1951. The success of the Australian beef industry during the previous hundred years, especially in the Northern Territory, depended almost entirely upon the work of Indigenous cattle workers but they had rarely been paid. The Commission decided to include …
Indigenous Housing Rights and Colonial Sovereignty: Self-Determination and Housing Rights beyond a White Possessive Frame
Through the lens of Aileen Moreton-Robinson's ‘white possessive logics’, this article addresses a series of legal cases concerning inhumane Aboriginal housing in the Northern Territory of Australia. It critiques successive government policies in relation to First Nations people since the colonisation of the Northern Territory in the nineteenth century, setting the cases in their historical context of ongoing subordination of First Nations people …
They Were Treating Me Like a Dog”: The Colonial Continuum of State Harms Against Indigenous Children in Detention in the Northern Territory, Australia
The analytic lens of state crime can inform our understanding of the mistreatment of Indigenous children and young people in settler-colonial state institutions. Based on a critical analysis of the proceedings and findings of the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory (2016–2017), this article identifies state crimes of torture and abuse inflicted on Indigenous children in carceral and non-carcera…
Back Off! Stop Making US Illegal: The Criminalisation of Homelessness in Australia
In Australia, vagrancy and public order laws have been used to criminalise homelessness since colonisation. Such laws have never provided an effective deterrent against ‘offending’ because most crimes committed by homeless people are survival-related or otherwise associated with their homeless status. It is generally agreed that a welfare-oriented rather than a punitive approach is needed if these ‘crimes’ are to be prevented, however the perspec…
Criminal justice and transgression on northern Australian cattle stations
The remote interior of northern Australia represented a site of transgression for both pastoral colonisers and Aborigines alike.From the northern frontier period in the late nineteenth century until the 1966 Equal Pay decision, a unique relationship existed on cattle stations in which pastoralists and their Aboriginal workers deviated from government control.Despite Aboriginal protection legislation that prevailed elsewhere in northern Australia,…
Reconciliation and Conciliation: The Irreconcilable Dilemma of the 1965 'Equal' Wage Case for Aboriginal Station Workers
The Commonwealth Arbitration and Reconciliation Commission in 1965 presided over a landmark case concerning the inclusion of Indigenous workers in the Cattle Industry (Northern Territory) Award 1951. The success of the Australian beef industry during the previous hundred years, especially in the Northern Territory, depended almost entirely upon the work of Indigenous cattle workers but they had rarely been paid. The Commission decided to include …
Police Care for the Mentally Ill: The Restricted Vision of the High Court in Stuart v Kirkland-Veenstra
Encounters with people suffering from mental illness are a common occurrence for Australian police, and the way these interactions are handled can have profound consequences for all involved. In this comment an examination is made of the differing approaches taken by the High Court of Australia and the Victorian Court of Appeal to a situation in which the police came upon a person who was contemplating suicide. After questioning the person the po…
Manifestations of Moral Panics in the Sentencing of Palm Islander Lex Wotton
This Comment considers the sentencing of Palm Islander man, Lex Patrick Wotton, for his involvement in the protest following the death in custody of Mulrunji. It examines the protest as a response to the police role in the death and the police mishandling of the consequent investigation. The Comment critiques the media trial that paralleled Wotton's court trial. The mainstream media, along with the Queensland Government and police union, produced…
Crime, Aboriginality and the Decolonisation of Justice , Harry Blagg
Crime, Aboriginality and the Decolonisation of Justice, Harry Blagg." Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 20(3), pp. 490–491
Quantum of strategic litigation — quashing public participation
The focus of human rights scholars in recent times has been on the state's coercive powers to curtail civil liberties (Fitzpatrick 2003; Roberts 2004, 721–49; Hamilton and Maddison 2007). However, less attention has been given to the increasing role of large corporations in containing resistance. This article will discuss the corporate use of private civil actions to deter and punish protesters. These are known as Strategic Lawsuits Against Publi…
Sentencing Indigenous Riot Offenders in a Spatial Fantasy
© 2008, Routledge. All rights reserved. There is precedent in Australian criminal sentencing to consider Indigenous group membership as a mitigating factor, including for Indigenous riots against racist acts or deaths in custody. When mitigation has been invoked, it is based on the reduced moral culpability of the Indigenous offender. A number of higher courts, particularly in the 1980s and 1990s, pointed to the stress caused by racism that provo…
Indigenous People, Crime and Punishment
Indigenous People, Crime and Punishment examines criminal sentencing courts’ changing characterisations of Indigenous peoples’ identity, culture and postcolonial status. Focusing largely on Australian Indigenous peoples, but drawing also on the Canadian experiences, Thalia Anthony critically analyses how the judiciary have interpreted Indigenous difference. Through an analysis of Indigenous sentencing remarks over a fifty year period in a number …
STOP in the Name of Who's Law? Driving and the Regulation of Contested Space in Central Australia
This article emerges from a study of the incidence of Indigenous driving offending conducted by the authors in the Northern Territory (NT) from 2006 to 2010 on two central Australian communities. It demonstrates how new patterns of law enforcement, set in train by an 'Emergency Intervention' in 2007, ostensibly to tackle child sexual abuse and family violence, led to a dramatic increase in the criminalisation of Indigenous people for driving-rela…
Who are the Experts Here: Recognition of Aboriginal women and community workers in research and beyond
This paper explores how Indigenous-centred methodologies are crucial to the design and conduct of research projects that seek to have meaningful outcomes for Indigenous women and communities. We draw on experiential observations of an advisory group led by Indigenous experts that was part of the Social and Cultural Resilience and Emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal Mothers in prison (SCREAM) research project. From their experience we identify lesso…
Travelling our way or no way: The collision of automobilities in Australian Northern Territory judicial narratives
The regulation of driving and cars has taken on increasingly criminal guises. Apart from the role of insurance companies and motor vehicle registries, criminal law has stepped in to penalise drivers and car owners through more draconian measures. This article examines the problems that this presents for Indigenous drivers whose concepts of automobility are at odds with those of the nation state. It details the judicial narratives of this collisio…
They Were Treating Me Like a Dog”: The Colonial Continuum of State Harms Against Indigenous Children in Detention in the Northern Territory, Australia
The analytic lens of state crime can inform our understanding of the mistreatment of Indigenous children and young people in settler-colonial state institutions. Based on a critical analysis of the proceedings and findings of the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory (2016–2017), this article identifies state crimes of torture and abuse inflicted on Indigenous children in carceral and non-carcera…
Decolonising Criminology: Imagining Justice in a Postcolonial World
Restorative Justice or Indigenous Justice
This chapter tests the boundaries between mainstream justice and Indigenous justice. We suggest that Restorative Justice and Indigenous justice have to be understood as distinct and fundamentally different projects. Restorative Justice, at least in its present incarnation, may not survive a decolonising turn because, despite claims to the contrary, it is a modernist, Euro-north American concept concerned with reforming what remains an essentially…
Anti-colonial Carceral Abolition
Anti-colonial Carceral Abolition
The perils of positivism in the NT Royal Commission into youth detention: The case for a post-positivist frame for First Nations justice
The Royal Commission into the Detention and Protection of Children in the Northern Territory (2016–17) was set up by the Australian Government following a national television broadcast of guards inflicting tear gas, physical attacks, mechanical restraint chairs, hooding and indefinite segregation on First Nations children. Through an examination of the Royal Commission's establishment, proceedings and outcomes, this article identifies how First N…
Introduction to the Griffith Law Review Commission of Inquiry special issue
These introductory remarks outline the themes and articles that comprise this special issue of the Griffith Law Review on ‘Commissions of Inquiry’. The guest editors explain how the work collected
Transcending Colonial Legacies: From Criminal Justice to Indigenous Women’s Healing
Introduction to special edition: Covid-19, Criminal Justice and Carceralism – Critical Reflections and Change
This piece provides an introduction to the special issue on COVID-19, Criminal Justice and Carceralism – Critical Reflections and Change. It highlights the backdrop of recent events, including the pandemic and Black Lives Matter movement, before articulating both the problems with penalty in the pandemic and the possibilities for justice
An Anti-Colonial Approach to Abolition: Building Intentional Relations
Anti-Colonial Abolitionism: International Context
is a First Nations woman born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She is currently serving a life sentence. Sheri served approximately 17 years inside and has an incredible amount of lived experience under her belt. She has been free on full parole for over 10 years and is a great mother to a 9-year-old son. She is also a senior member of the Indigenous Support Workers Project (ISWP) -a grassroots organization based in Montr al, Qu bec. Sheri makes fried/bake…
Unsettling Colonial Automobilities: Criminalisation and Contested Sovereignties
Exploring the vehicle’s role in imposing colonialism on Indigenous people, this book proposes an Indigenous automobility that reclaims sovereignty over place and centricity.
Culture, Strengths, and Risk: The Language of Pre-Sentence Reports in Indigenous Sentencing Courts and Mainstream Courts
Pre-sentence reports (PSRs) provide important information about an individual’s background and circumstances to assist judicial officers in the sentencing process. The present study analyzed PSRs for 63 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people sentenced by either an Indigenous sentencing court or a mainstream court in the Australian State of Victoria. Using natural language processing techniques, our analyses revealed few differences between …
Indigenous Experience Reports: Addressing Silence and Deficit Discourse in Sentencing
The hyper-incarceration of Indigenous Australians urges analysis of unconscious bias, the application of criminogenic risk assumptions, and structural impediments to consideration of Indigenous experience in sentencing. Disrupting deficit-based discourses requires new approaches to sentencing, in which First Nations voices are heard. This article examines all 149 sentences delivered in the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory between…
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