Every Mother's Son is Guilty: Policing the Kimberley Frontier of Western Australia 1882-1905 (2016)

The policing of Aboriginal people changed from protection under law to punishment and control. The subsequent violence of colonial settlement and the associated policing and criminal justice system that developed, often of questionable legality, was what Royal Commissioner Roth in 1905 termed a ‘brutal and outrageous state of affairs’.