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Black Lives, White Law
Black Lives, White Law
Black Lives, White Law
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Black Lives, White Law
Black Lives, White Law
Black Lives, White Law
Black Lives, White Law
Black Lives, White Law
Black Lives, White Law
Black Lives, White Law
Black Lives, White Law
Black Lives, White Law
Black Lives, White Law
Black Lives, White Law
Black Lives, White Law
Black Lives, White Law
Black Lives, White Law
Black Lives, White Law
Black Lives, White Law

Russell Marks’ book is a timely reminder that law is politics and that it is seared into the bodies of First Nations people. 
—Kate Auty

Black Lives, White Law: Locked Up and Locked Out in Australia

Awards for Black Lives, White Law

  • Shortlisted, Australian Political Book of the Year Award 2023
  • Shortlisted, Prime Ministers Literary Award for Australian History 2023

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About the author

Russell Marks

Russell Marks is a criminal defence lawyer and an Adjunct Research Fellow at La Trobe University, where he completed a PhD in Australian political history. He is the author of Crime and Punishment: Offenders and Victims in a Broken Justice …

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Praise for Black Lives, White Law

‘This passionate, timely book shines a critical light on First Nations’ incarceration rates in Australia, bringing history into the present with a sense of urgency and purpose ... Powerfully interventionist while avoiding polemic, this book reminds us that frontier violence has a present as well as a past.’ —Judges’ comments, Prime Minister’s Literary Awards

‘Russell Marks unravels a national tragedy. From the frontline he delivers a first-rate, first-hand account of how so many First Nations people end up in jail, again and again.’ —Patrick Dodson, Labor Senator for Western Australia

‘Russell Marks’ book is a timely reminder that law is politics and that it is seared into the bodies of First Nations people.’ —Kate Auty

‘Such a powerful and compelling exposé of how the so-called justice system actually does absolutely nothing for either offenders or victims.’ —Olga Havnen

‘Russell Marks’s new book, Black Lives, White Law, can be seen as an identification, and a powerful investigation, of persistent narratives about the incarceration of First Nations people in Australia.’ —Kate Rossmanith, Inside Story

‘Reading Black Lives, White Law reminds me that this apocalypse cannot be reformed. And that we must collectively will each other towards abolishing carceral societies’ —The Saturday Paper

‘Marks is a terrific journalist … this is engagingly written, in a way that emotionally and intellectually engages the reader.’ —Jo Case, In Daily

‘Russell Marks’ Black Lives, White Law brings history into the present; a masterful indictment of more than 200 years of incarceration regimes in Australia.’ —Clare Wright, The Saturday Age ‘The words that won our hearts’

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