ABSTRACT
This chapter begins by examining the impacts of colonialism, genocide, white supremacy, and the complicity of criminology with the colonial project. Using the frame of neoliberalism, criminalization, and marginalization, a critical analysis is offered of the complexity of the colonial – justice – project in the settler-colonial jurisdictions of Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. The intersection between crime control and social policy sectors is examined. Considering these intersections necessitates an analysis of the use of colonial smokescreens masked as policy and programming, resulting in the expansion of state control and the increased indigenization of justice policies and programming as stifling the potential for decolonial Nation-based solutions.
