Juan Tauri

While scholars restorative justice have acknowledged problems such as over-representation and bias in their research, there has been little adequate theory on how restorative practices either contributes to, or mitigates one of the most defining problems for criminal justice, namely the growing evidence that justice remains structured along lines of race, ethnicity and indigeneity. This book addresses the intersection of restorative justice and race, ethnicity, and indigeneity as they pertain to criminal justice within Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the United States. This book critically evaluates the lack of attention to questions of race, ethnicity and indigeneity within restorative justice literature on policy and practice, and presents empirical research on the question of who gets access to restorative justice. Its develops a critical analysis of the intersections between restorative justice and race, ethnicity and indigeneity within the movement’s practices and theories, as well as an assessment of ways that restorative justice has ignored the problems related to the "colour line" of justice.

Indigenous Criminology is the first book to comprehensively explore Indigenous people’s contact with criminal justice systems in a contemporary and historical context. Drawing on comparative Indigenous material from North America, Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, it addresses both the theoretical underpinnings to the development of a specific Indigenous criminology, and canvasses the broader policy and practice implications for criminal justice. Written by leading criminologists specialising in Indigenous justice issues, the book argues for the importance of Indigenous knowledges and methodologies to criminology, and suggests that colonialism needs to be a fundamental concept to criminology in order to understand contemporary problems such as deaths in custody, high imprisonment rates, police brutality and the high levels of violence in some Indigenous communities. Prioritising the voices of Indigenous peoples, the work will make a significant contribution to the development of a decolonising criminology and will be of wide interest.

Indigenous Criminology is the first book to comprehensively explore Indigenous people’s contact with criminal justice systems in a contemporary and historical context. Drawing on comparative Indigenous material from North America, Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, it addresses both the theoretical underpinnings to the development of a specific Indigenous criminology, and canvasses the broader policy and practice implications for criminal justice. Written by leading criminologists specialising in Indigenous justice issues, the book argues for the importance of Indigenous knowledges and methodologies to criminology, and suggests that colonialism needs to be a fundamental concept to criminology in order to understand contemporary problems such as deaths in custody, high imprisonment rates, police brutality and the high levels of violence in some Indigenous communities. Prioritising the voices of Indigenous peoples, the work will make a significant contribution to the development of a decolonising criminology and will be of wide interest.