
Handing Over the Keys
Indigenous Peoples and Carceral Injustice
$37.89
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2026
Summary
Generations of Indigenous people have experienced the injustices wrought by institutional confinement. Rates of Indigenous imprisonment are recognised in Australia as a national tragedy, and in Aotearoa New Zealand, the government itself has admitted that Maori people may be the most incarcerated in the world. Widespread criticism in Canada calls prisons ‘the new residential schools’. Handing over the Keys compares three countries with enduring records of confining Indigenous people.…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522882612 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522882617 |
| Author: | Linda Mussell |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm |
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About The Author
Linda Mussell
Linda Mussell is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Canterbury | Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha in Christchurch | Ōtautahi, New Zealand | Aotearoa.
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