Unsettling Colonialism in the Canadian Criminal Justice System

• Other Authors: Chartrand, Vicki (Editor), Savarese, Josephine (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Canada Athabasca University Press 2023
• Subjects: Legal system: general; Legal; law; convictions; justice; supreme court; Indigenous, jury, jurors, commission; Charter of Rights and Freedoms; legal reform; policy; socio-legal studies, sociology, settler colonialism, criminal law, criminology, Canadian law, police, incarceration
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Canada's criminal justice system reinforces dominant relations of power and further entrenches the country in its colonial past. Through the mechanisms of surveillance, segregation, and containment, the criminal justice system ensures that Indigenous peoples remain in a state of economic depriv...