CRCJ 3200
Indigeneity, Coloniality, and Crime
This course explores issues related to Indigenous peoples, the criminal justice system and community with an emphasis on Indigenous scholarship and perspectives on criminology and crime.
Topics
- issues related to Indigenous peoples
Course catalogue
2025
Readings
- Monchalin, Lisa. 2016. The Colonial Problem: An Indigenous Perspective on Crime and Injustice in Canada. University of Toronto Press: Toronto, Ontario.
- Monchalin, Lisa. 2016. Chapter 1 Introduction to Indigenous Peoples in Canada Pp 1-22. in The Colonial Problem: An Indigenous Perspective on Crime and Injustice in Canada.
- University of Toronto Press: Toronto, Ontario.
- Friedland, Hadley. 2018. Chapter 2 “The Wetiko as a Legal Concept or Category” Pp 20-49 in The Wetiko Legal Principles: Cree and Anishinabek Responses to Violence and Victimization.
- University of Toronto Press: Toronto, Ont.
- Monchalin, Lisa. 2016. Chapter 2 “Introduction to an Indigenous Perspective: Ideology and Teachings” in The Colonial Problem: An Indigenous Perspective on Crime and Injustice
- McAdam, Sylvia. 2015. Chapter 1 and 2 in Nationhood Interrupted: Revitalizing Nehiyaw Legal Systems. Pp 21-36.
- Cunnen, Chris; Tauri Juan. 2017. Chapter 1 “Towards a Critical Indigenous Criminology” Indigenous Criminology. Pp 23-43. Policy Press: Bristol, UK.
Prerequisites & course information
Prerequisite(s): CRCJ 1000 , INDG 1010 , or INDG 1011 , third year standing, and enrollment in a B.A. or Minor in Criminology and Criminal Justice, or by permission of the Institute. Lecture and discussion three hours per week.