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Unsettling colonialism in the Canadian criminal justice system / edited by Vicki Chartrand, Josephine Savarese.

Chartrand, Vicki. (Added Author). Savarese, Josephine. (Added Author).

Summary:

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 deprivation, social isolation, and political subjection. By examining the ways in which the Canadian justice system continues to sanction overtly discriminatory and racist practices, the authors in this collection demonstrate clearly how historical patterns of privilege and domination are extended and reinforced.

Record details

ISBN: 9781778290039 (pbk.)
Physical Description: ix, 413 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Publisher: Athabasca, AB : AU Press, [2023]
Copyright: ©2023

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Human to Human: A Poem Written for Pamela George / Chevelle Malcolm -- Part I. Settler Colonialism and Canadian Criminal Justice in Context -- 1. Memoryscapes: Canadian Chattel Slavery, Gaslighting, and Carceral Phantom Pain / Viviane Saleh-Hanna -- 2. The Destruction of Families: Canadian Indian Residential Schools and the Refamilialization of Indigenous Children / Andrew Woolford -- 3. Walking on a Settler Road: Days in the Life of Colonialism / Clint Augustine McIntosh -- 4. Colonial Mythmaking in Canadian Police Museums on the Prairies / Kevin Walby and Justin Piché -- 5. Original Savages / Stands with the Wolves (Nolan Turcotte) -- Part II. The Colonial Violence of Criminal Justice Operations -- 6. "You're Reminded of Who You Are in Canada, Real Quick": Racial Gendered Violence and the Politics of Redress / Carmela Murdocca -- 7. Clearing the Plains Continues: Settler Justice and the "Accidental" Murder of Colten Boushie / David B. MacDonald -- 8. Killing in the Name Of: Police Killings of Indigenous People in Canada / Jeff Shantz -- 9. Elders in Prison and Cycles of Abuse / Paul Hachey -- 10. Gendered Genocide: The Overincarceration of Indigenous Women and Girls / Pamela Palmater -- Part III. The Bureaucratic Trappings of Colonial Justice -- 11. Moral Culpability and Addiction: Sentencing Decisions Two Decades After R. v. Gladue / Gillian Balfour -- 12. Cookie-Cutter Corrections: The Appearance of Scientific Rigour, the Assumption of Homogeneity, and the Fallacy of Division / Jeff Ewert -- 13. To Be Treated as Human: Federally Sentenced Women and the Struggle for Human Rights / Kim Pate -- 14. Earth and Spirit: Corrections Is Not Another Word for Healing / Charles Jamieson -- 15. Shit: A Poem Dedicated to All Incarcerated Sisters / El Jones -- 16. Incompatible or Congruent? Can Indigenous and Western Legal Systems Work Together? / Lorinda Riley -- Part IV. Creative Resistances and Reimagining Settler-Colonial Justice -- 17. Countering the Legal Archive on the Death of Neil Stonechild: Analyzing David Garneau's Evidence (2006) as an Aesthetic Archive / Josephine Savarese -- 18. Ethics of Representation : Ethics and Representation: Dads Doin' Time, Incarcerated Indigenous Writers, and the Public Gaze / Jillian Baker -- 19. In the Name of the Native Brother and Sisterhood / James Delorme -- 20. Spirit of the Stolen: MMIWG2S+ People and Indigenous Grassroots Organizing / Vicki Chartrand -- 21. Critique's Coloniality and Pluriversal Recognition: On the Care as the Ecological Ground of Justice / Mark Jackson.