ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides a brief introduction to and overview of both critical race theory and prison abolition. It discusses the ineffectiveness of prison abolition scholarship produced within traditional criminology relative to the inroads made by critical race theory, and urges abolitionists in criminology to ground their research in critical frameworks, and critical race theory in particular. The book argues forcefully against increased Indigenous involvement in prisons, Indigenous programming, and the supposed Indigenizing of prisons as a solution to the settler colonial violence of incarceration. It presents the failure of incarceration to address global problems of sexual and domestic violence, and explores non-carceral and survivor-centric responses to gender-based violence through a transnational feminist lens.
