a Black life in Victoria's white justice system
- Written by Alana Piper, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney
William King circa 1890.Public Records Office, VictoriaThe Black Lives Matters movement in the United States and Australia has drawn welcome attention to Black deaths in the criminal justice system. Such fatalities are extreme manifestations of a long history of excessive punishment of Black bodies: from the use of neck chains on Indigenous...





