Roundtable: There is Nothing Just About it: Enhancing Disadvantage Through the Criminal Legal System

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract/Description

Bringing together leading scholars on policing, courts, corrections, and re-entry this session reflects on the ways marginalization is experienced and compounded at every stage of the criminal legal process in Canada. This discussion aims to challenge misconceptions that justice is equitable in the North. Examining the interwoven and often overlooked mechanisms that enhance rather than mitigate disadvantage across criminal justice professionals, spaces, and socio-legal contexts we challenge the possibilities of justice in a system that aggravates, rather than mitigates marginalization. Drawing on insights from diverse research projects that employ a variety of methodological approaches we develop our understanding of the interplay between the criminal justice process, race, Indigeneity, poverty, mental health and the criminalization of substance use.

Sub Unit

• Area XIV. Roundtables

Chair

• Nicole Myers, Queen's University

Discussants

• Kanika Samuels-Wortley, Ontario Tech University

• Scot Wortley, University of Toronto

• Justin EC Tetrault, University of Alberta Augustana