To Right Historical Wrongs
Race, Gender, and Sentencing in Canada
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2013
- Category
- Penology, Sentencing, Native American Studies
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774824972
- Publish Date
- Oct 2013
- List Price
- $35.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774825009
- Publish Date
- Oct 2013
- List Price
- $32.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774824989
- Publish Date
- Jul 2014
- List Price
- $32.95
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Description
Following the Second World War, liberal nation-states sought to address injustices of the past. Canada’s government began to consider its own implication in various past wrongs, and in the late twentieth century it began to implement reparative justice initiatives for historically marginalized people. Yet despite this shift, there are more Indigenous and racialized people in Canadian prisons now than at any other time in history. Carmela Murdocca examines this disconnect between the political motivations for amending historical injustices and the vastly disproportionate reality of the penal system – a troubling contradiction that is often ignored.
About the author
Carmela Murdocca is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at York University and a member of York's graduate programs in Sociology, Socio-Legal Studies, and Social and Political Thought. She is the author of To Right Historical Wrongs: Race, Gender, and Sentencing in Canada (2013).
