Every Mother's Son is Guilty: Policing the Kimberley Frontier of Western Australia 1882-1905

by Chris Owen

In Every Mother's Son is Guilty, Chris Owen provides a compelling account of policing in the Kimberley district from 1882, when police were established in the district, until 1905 when Dr. Walter Roth's controversial Royal Commission into the treatment of Aboriginal people was released.

Owen's achievement is to take elements of the pre-existing historiography and test them against a rigorous archival investigation. In doing so a fuller understanding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1742586686
• ISBN13: 9781742586687
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: University of Western Australia Press
• Length: 648 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"