Racialized Correctional Governance: The Mutual Constructions of Race and Criminal Justice

Racialised Correctional Governance provides comparative, theoretical and empirical accounts of the location specific and historically informed approaches towards Indigenous population management that are currently relayed through the correctional system. Using the case examples of Australian and New Zealand correctional approaches towards Indigenous offenders, the book traces the population specific practices of offender rehabilitation that have grown organically in different jurisdictions, and presents how these approaches descend from long histories of distinctly local approaches to the management and security of populations. In doing so, the book not only marks a break from the dogma of the correctional literature, but also provides an account of the complicated and complex ways that Indigenous peoples within settler-colonial societies have been asked to enter the correctional sphere as authorities on the management of Indigenous offenders.