Neo-Colonial Injustice and the Mass Imprisonment of Indigenous Women

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Introduction

   • Lily George, Adele N. Norris, Antje Deckert, Juan Tauri

   Pages 1-11

3. Stigmatising Gang Narratives, Housing, and the Social Policing of Māori Women

   • Cassandra Lewis, Adele N. Norris, Waimirirangi Heta-Cooper, Juan Tauri

   Pages 13-33

4. The Relationship Between Restorative Justice and Prison Abolition

   • Naomi Sayers

   Pages 35-52

5. Colonial Policies and Indigenous Women in Canada

   • Dawn M. Smith

   Pages 53-78

6. The Mass Incarceration of Indigenous Women in Canada: A Colonial Tactic of Control and Assimilation

   • Olga Marques, Lisa Monchalin

   Pages 79-102

7. Transcending Colonial Legacies: From Criminal Justice to Indigenous Women’s Healing

   • Thalia Anthony, Gemma Sentance, Lorana Bartels

   Pages 103-131

8. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women in Australian Prisons

   • Hilde Tubex, Dorinda Cox

   Pages 133-154

9. Mana Wahine Leadership After Prison

   • Helena Rattray-Te Mana, Te Atawhai Nayda Te Rangi

   Pages 155-171

10. What Was My Crime? Being an American Indian Woman

    • Stormy Ogden

    Pages 173-191

11. Trauma, Healing, and Justice: Native Hawaiian Women in Hawaii’s Criminal Justice System

    • Toni Bissen

    Pages 193-222

12. Prison as Destiny? Descent or Dissent?

    • Tracey McIntosh, Maja Curcic

    Pages 223-238

13. Te Piringa Poho: Healing, Potential and Transformation for Māori Women

    • Lily George, Elaine Ngamu

    Pages 239-267

14. Back Matter

    Pages 269-279

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This book closes a gap in decolonizing intersectional and comparative research by addressing issues around the mass incarceration of Indigenous women in the US, Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand. This edited collection seeks to add to the criminological discourse by increasing public awareness of the social problem of disproportionate incarceration rates. It illuminates how settler-colonial societies continue to deny many Indigenous peoples the life relatively free from state interference which most citizens enjoy. The authors explore how White-settler supremacy is exercised and preserved through neo-colonial institutions, policies and laws leading to failures in social and criminal justice reform and the impact of women’s incarceration on their children, partners, families, and communities. It also explores the tools of activism and resistance that Indigenous peoples use to resist neo-colonial marginalisation tactics to decolonise their lives and communities. Withmost contributors embedded in their indigenous communities, this collection is written from academic as well as community and experiential perspectives. It will be a comprehensive resource for academics and students of criminology, sociology, Indigenous studies, women and gender studies and related academic disciplines, as well as non-academic audiences: offering new knowledge and insider insights both nationally and internationally.

• imprisonment
• prison
• race and crime
• crime and ethnicity
• cultural politics
• restorative justice
• aboriginal
• trauma
• crime and gender
• women and prison
• Maori
• native american
• colonial oppression
• victims
• ethnicity, class, gender and crime

• Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

  Lily George

• University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

  Adele N. Norris, Juan Tauri

• Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand

  Antje Deckert

Lily George is Adjunct Research Fellow with Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She serves as Chair of the New Zealand Ethics Committee. Of the Te Kapotai/Ngāpuhi tribes, her research interests include Māori youth development, incarceration of Māori and Indigenous women, and she specialises in Indigenous community-based health and wellbeing research.


Adele N. Norris is Senior lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. Adele’s scholarship engages black feminist methodologies to explore state-sanctioned violence against black and brown bodies.


Antje Deckert is Senior Lecturer of Criminology at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. Her research examines academic and media crime discourses and their interactions with Indigenous peoples and epistemologies. Antje is co-editor of both the Palgrave Handbook of Australian and New Zealand Criminology, Crime and Justice (2017) and the peer-reviewed journal Decolonization of Criminology and Justice.


Juan Tauri (Ngati Porou tribe) is Senior Lecturer in the Sociology and Social Policy programme at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Juan’s research projects focus on a diverse range of topics, including youth gangs, domestic violence, Indigenous experiences of prison, and the globalisation of restorative justice, and is co-editor of Decolonization of Criminology and Justice. 

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