ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book discusses that criminology plays a small role in the mutual constructions of race and criminal justice, its impact on the mutual construction process is disproportionately large. The emergence of the Risk Need Responsivity Model (RNRM) of offender classification and treatment in correctional literature allowed the literature to become the key source of texts that have provided correctional agencies with the principles, techniques and approaches they now use in the development of practice. The programs and practices created by correctional institutions to address racialized offenders' offending behaviour make racialized offenders responsible for their future in location-specific ways, and according to the negotiated frameworks of knowledge and experience of correctional agencies and their racialized staff. The Department of Justice's actions legitimized the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC) suggestion that Western frameworks of knowledge were mistaken in their understanding of Aboriginal peoples up until that point.
