Indigenous peoples and rural criminology

[Extract] This chapter explores the relationship between Indigenous people and rural criminology. The focus is centred on Indigenous people in Australia. The research and theoretical issues raised here also have some applicability to Indigenous people living in other Anglo settler colonial societies. However, the extent to which the experiences of Indigenous peoples across Australia, Canada, the USA and Aotearoa/New Zealand are comparable needs to be carefully contextualised by specific historical and contemporary political, social and economic developments within those nations