The Northern Territory, more than any other jurisdiction, has had to confront a world where a substantial percentage of offenders are Indigenous, and where, until recently, Aboriginal people have had a closer empathy with traditional tribal law than with the imposed Western criminal law. The result is criminal law which differs in a number of important respects from both the Criminal Codes and from the common law. Stephen Gray has written a clear, concise account, covering procedure, all the major offences, and evidentiary issues, and including a notable chapter dealing with some very difficult sentencing issues.

The book is sufficiently "black letter" to be useful to Territory practitioners and sufficiently contexualised to attract a wider readership.

Table of Contents

Foreword - Jenny Blokland, SM

CHAPTER 1: Introduction
CHAPTER 2: History of Northern Territory criminal law
CHAPTER 3: Indigenous people and Northern Territory criminal law
CHAPTER 4: Investigation, process and procedure
CHAPTER 5: Criminal responsibility under the Territory Code
CHAPTER 6: Homicide and dangerous act
CHAPTER 7: Partial defences: provocation and diminished responsibility
CHAPTER 8: Self-help defences
CHAPTER 9: Mistake
CHAPTER 10: Complicity and inchoate offences
CHAPTER 11: Offences against the person
CHAPTER 12: Sexual offences
CHAPTER 13: Property offences
CHAPTER 14: Public order
CHAPTER 15: Sentencing

Table of Cases
Table of Statutes
Index