Handing Over the Keys by Linda Mussell - ISBN: 9780522882612
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Indigenous hyper-imprisonment: seeking keys to transformative change.
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Handing Over the Keys

Indigenous Peoples and Carceral Injustice

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  • Paperback

    304 pages

  • Release Date

    15 September 2026

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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
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
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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