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Book SynopsisIn Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice Kent Roach critically reconstructs the Gerald Stanley/Colten Boushie case to examine how it may be a miscarriage of justice. Drawing on both trial transcripts and research on miscarriages of justice, Roach provides historical, legal, political, and sociological background to the case.
Trade Review"Timely, useful, and authoritative, Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice offers a thoughtful and balanced discussion of the evidence and the issues behind a highly controversial topic. A worthy and important study." Ken S. Coates, University of Saskatchewan and co-author of Land of the Midnight Sun
"Highly readable and very timely, Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice exposes a court system that, when it comes to Indigenous people, gets it relentlessly and repeatedly wrong and struggles in vain to end generations of hostility, bias, and alienation." Kirk Makin, former Globe and Mail justice reporter and author of Redrum the Innocent
"Meticulous detail is presented on the pernicious reality of racism, colonialism, and Indigenous 'injustice.' Professor Roach dissects the trial process for Gerald Stanley and draws from a series of similar cases. He identifies the persistence of dropped threads, missed opportunities, and decisions to set aside deeper issues of historic injustice and systemic discrimination." Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond (Aki-Kwe), director of the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre and professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia
"In a meticulously researched and documented analysis of the trial of Gerald Stanley for the killing of Boushie in 2016, Roach exposes a whole system designed to maintain inequality between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians." The Tyee
"This was a book that needed to be written. Roach, despite various reasons to be pessimistic about the future, offers practical suggestions on how the situation of Canadian justice and Indigenous injustice can be improved. But he admits himself that even these suggestions do not go far enough in rectifying the situation; this instead will take a wholescale shift in Canadian norms and values, not just in the judicial system. I wholeheartedly recommend this book to readers, both expert and general." British Journal of Canadian Studies
