Indigenous Criminology

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 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 specializing in Indigenous people, the book argues for the importance of Indigenous knowledge 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. Prioritizing the voices of Indigenous peoples, the work will make a significant contribution to the development of a decolonizing criminology and will be of wide interest.