Unsettling Colonialism in the Canadian Criminal Justice System

The development of the Canadian criminal justice system has been central to the dispossession of Indigenous populations and the safeguarding of colonial relations of power. Through the mechanisms of surveillance, segregation, and containment, the justice system ensures that Indigenous peoples remain in a state of economic deprivation, social isolation, and political subjection.

Contributors to this volume examine historical expressions and ongoing reinforcement of settler colonialism with a...