HUMN2070 First Peoples and Criminal Justice - Assignment Help

Students will need to critically analyse, through reflective writing, a chosen topic from weeks 1 to 4. By using no more than 900 words, you will need to choose a topic, position yourself within the research and share your knowledge and experience. 

Topic Chosen: Policing & First Nations Historical Relations

Please do not over think this assessment - it is the first one and I would like to know where you are at in relation to issues impacting Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people and their community. In saying that, please forward think about your chosen topic and do not provide an overview or description of the reflective writing. 

It is only 900 words so please make every word count.

This assessment is due Friday 19 August 2022 at 23:59pm.

Tips for the assessment regarding terminology:

There is a number of ways that Aboriginal people are titled. However, there can be ways that we are written about that can or are offensive.

As a (personal) general rule, I always write Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people. Always capitalise the first letter in each: Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander etc.

Please never shorten to the acronym. Using it (which I will not be, so I am hoping you all understand what I am talking about), is really offensive as we are more than an acronym and it limits the diversity of cultures, implying that we are a monculture. Plus, it is just lazy writing.

Thanks to Pauline Hanson, the term Indigenous should try to be avoided, as it means someone born of the place. So, anyone born in this country is Indigenous. 

Please avoid adding Australian to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander as this too, comes across as insensitive to the past treatment. By this, it continues the ownership of us by Australia, which is a colonial name for this country and most Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people do not identify with being Australian due to colonisation.

Please refrain from pluralising Aboriginal. For example: Aboriginals - reasons are similar to why it is inappropriate to use the acronym.

If you are talking about a particular Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person, research who their mob is and use that, in lieu of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander.

****Please note***** 

When you are using a direct quote, you must use the words exactly as they are written, which means that everything I have stated above is void.

Please make sure your spelling is correct, and as I have already stated, capitalise the first letter of each word - again, unless you are using a direct quote.