Michael Bryden, PhD 🌱

Criminologist at UTS @Jumbunna_Inst | PhD from @Cambridge_Uni on police legitimacy | host of @RethinkDeviance podcast | Palawa descendant.

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Episode 1: Professor Lawrence W. Sherman, an esteemed criminologist and police educator at the University of Cambridge. #criminology

https://t.co/SYrfTUKe8V

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@TheIPA Finally, the “apartheid” claim is a loaded term that functions to delegitimise Indigenous peoples’ right to pursue collective self‑determination. It's a political move.

Price does not have to pursue it, but she does not have the right to deny it to others (see UNDRIP 2007).

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@TheIPA Price talks about "land being stripped away from everyday Australians", but that is precisely what was done to Indigenous people.

Yet, if you look and land/house ownership, Indigenous people have less of both.

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#5: Dr @EvelynSvingen discusses her work on Evolutionary Criminology.

Evelyn argues that understanding crime requires engaging all levels of analysis, and she calls for interdisciplinary empathy and epistemological humility.

https://t.co/ddnZIr6t7b

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@Anthonywodillon @BundooraBard Are English people marginalised, disadvantaged, and mass incarcerated in Australia?

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Calls for Special Issue proposals!

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@Anthonywodillon @BundooraBard Work of Harry Blagg, Thalia Anthony, Chris Cunneen, Juan Tauri, Antje Deckert. There's lots of others, too.

Are there any scholars you'd cite?

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@Anthonywodillon @BundooraBard Do you think this reflects a good understanding of the human experience? I don't think it does.

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@Anthonywodillon @BundooraBard Yeah, for example, the commissioner recognised VICPOLS role in the stolen generation and the 'ongoing systemic injustices'. Of course, this policy was tied to colonialism and a direct product.

See: ''Chief Commissioner's Apology to the Stolen Generations | Victoria Police''

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@Anthonywodillon @BundooraBard Yes, the police recognise the impact of colonialism and have it built into their policies.

You can find this on the VICPOL website, but happy to find a link for you.

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@Anthonywodillon @BundooraBard I think this (a) fails to consider the systemic and compounding impact of racism and (b) the impact of racism within communities, including on social disintegration and violence. E.g., alcohol to compensate for lifestyle conditions which have historical origins.

Can cite.

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@Anthonywodillon @BundooraBard I think it depends, but you're right that it's difficult to disentangle and measure its full impact.

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@BundooraBard @Anthonywodillon I'm not sure if you're from an older generation, but attitudes are increasingly changing in this direction.

To illustrate how far it's come, even the police, a relatively conservative institution, recognise these issues. See WAPOL & VICPOL.

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@Anthonywodillon @BundooraBard We've largely moved on from that type of rhetoric, but building resilience is important.

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@Anthonywodillon @BundooraBard Where are the 'full' blood Tasmanians? Where are their political systems? Where are their rights to the land and autonomy over the natural resources that immigrants use to create great wealth?

If they're gone, that's an ongoing impact.

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@Anthonywodillon @BundooraBard And an actual answer?

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@BundooraBard @Anthonywodillon As an analogy, if a country invaded Britain, taking all of its land, engaged in mass killings, suppressed British culture, and established foreign political systems, resulting in no 'full white' people left (i.e., Tasmania).

How long would it take Britian to recover?