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1 results foundAuthor: Turner-Walker, Jennifer Title: Clash of the Paradigms: Night Patrols in remote central Australia Summary: This research examines the crucial crime and violence prevention role of Aboriginal Night and Community Patrols in the 20 plus remote Aboriginal settlements of the Northern Territory region south of Tennant Creek. The research focuses on the period from the early 1990s with the appearance of the first remote settlement Night Patrols in the Northern Territory, to their demise as community owned services with the Howard Liberal government's Northern Territory Emergency Response (the Intervention) and the implementation of a Shire system of local NT government. These measures removed the last vestiges of remote Aboriginal community ownership of Patrols and other Aboriginal initiatives, thereby undermining the Aboriginal cultural and family imperatives that were the basis of functional Night and Community patrols. Though there are some similarities to community safety initiatives in other cultural and geographic areas, Aboriginal Night and Community Patrols in remote regions of Australia are very locally and culturally specific. The intention of this thesis is to explore some of the enormous range of roles, strategies, and methodologies of remote Patrols during the time when they could have been viewed as stellar examples of Aboriginal self-determination in action, a genuinely grassroots wholly Aboriginal initiative to improve the safety of their families and settlements where the non-Aboriginal domain had so clearly failed. The Patrols’ local and cultural specificity has disadvantaged the patrols in their interactions with non-Aboriginal organisations such as police and government agencies, as their strategies and actions are largely opaque to the nonAboriginal administrative, regulatory and social domains. The tendency is to try to understand Patrols in terms of equivalence to non-Aboriginal community policing initiatives such as Neighbourhood Watch, or security services. This does the Patrols a great disservice, and fails to recognise the extraordinary complexity of Patrol functions and strategies. It also overlooks the skill, commitment and determination of the Patrollers in undertaking to protect their families and make a difference to quality of life and safety in their home settlements. Night and Community Patrols’ major strengths are in harm minimisation, crime prevention and dispute mediation. As cultural insiders, they have a deep and intimate knowledge of the intricacies of family and individual relationships that comprise the remote Aboriginal political and socio-cultural milieu. This enables them to identify, manage and mediate potentially dangerous disputes and situations before they escalate to unregulated violence. Preventative activities are notoriously difficult to quantify, which has affected attempts by funding bodies and others to "benchmark" Patrol activities, and to implement appropriate and effective Patrol reporting systems . Details: Crawley WA: University of Western Australia, 2012. 132p. Source: Internet Resource: Thesis: Accessed December 21, 2016 at: http://fare.org.au/wp-content/uploads/research/Thesis+complete+2.pdf Year: 2012 Country: Australia URL: http://fare.org.au/wp-content/uploads/research/Thesis+complete+2.pdf Shelf Number: 147765 Keywords: Aboriginal CommunitiesAlcohol Related Crime, DisorderNight PatrolsPolice Patrols |