Radzinowicz prize for best BJC article in 2022
The author of an article on domestic violence policing of First Nations women in Australia has been awarded the prestigious Radzinowicz Prize.
The Radzinowicz Prize is awarded annually by the Editors of the British Journal of Criminology to the article they judge has contributed most to knowledge of criminal justice and criminology.
This year’s prize goes to Emma Buxton-Namisnyk, for her article ‘Domestic Violence Policing of First Nations Women in Australia: “Settler” Frameworks, Consequential Harms and the Promise of Meaningful Self-Determination’.
In her article, Emma Buxton-Namisnyk argues that:
in a high proportion of fatal domestic violence cases, police failed to respond effectively and in some cases, at all, to First Nations victims who experienced abuse... However... even when police actively responded to First Nations women who experienced violence... these interactions were frequently harmful. Police interventions were identified as eroding women’s agency through paternalistic practice, exposing First Nations women and their families to increased state surveillance, and contributing to the further enmeshment of First Nations women victims of violence in the criminal justice system as ‘offenders’.
More information on this, and other Radzinowicz Prize articles, here.