Abstract
The over representation of Aboriginal people in the criminal justice system is very well established. Further, the role of the police as an organ playing a key role in this over representation — as distinct from essentially passive respondents to a presumably criminal Aboriginal population — has also been widely accepted within the field of criminology This article is an attempt to form an understanding of the interaction between Aboriginal people and police by analysing the manner in which knowledge of the Aboriginal subject is constructed through material police practices in a particular context — the rural communities of North-West New South Wales. The paper emphasises the relationship between the structural imperatives of policing and the specific conditions of particular policed spaces, and the active role played by Aboriginal people in the creation of policing outcomes.
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