Part I – The Origins of Policing
Introduction: Australian policing in context
Mike Enders
The social construction of crime and policing
Mike Enders
Democratic control of police: How 19th-century political systems determine modern policing structures
Charles Edwards
Policing: Reflecting on the past, projecting into the future
Barbara Etter
Policing in the information age: Technological errors of the past in perspective
Benoît Dupont
Part II – Policing and Indigenous Peoples
Policing and indigenous peoples in Australia
Christine Jennett
Indigenous participation in policing
Jo Kamira
The native police at Callandoon: a blueprint for forced assimilation?
Mark Copland
Moreton Telegraph Station 1902: Native Police on Cape York Peninsula
Jonathon Richards
Part III – Policing and Deviance
Inventing juvenile delinquency and determining its cure (or how many discourses can you hide in one construct?)
Dr Leonora Ritter
A history of methadone treatment in Australia: The influence of social control arguments in its development
Dr Morag McArthur
Stupor in paradise: drunkenness, disorder and drug offences in the Northern Territory 1870 – 1926
Bill Wilson
The evolution of impaired driver law: Victoria
Snr Sgt Martin C Boorman
Part IV – Policing, Politics and Industrial Disputes
After Arthur: Policing in Van Diemen’s Land 1837 – 1846
Dr Stefan Petrow
Barricades and batons: A historical perspective of the policing of major industrial disorder
David Baker
Committees and commissions of inquiry into criminal justice agencies: A history repeating itself
Dr Desmond McDonnell
References/ Index