A review by justabean_reads
Peace and Good Order: The Case for Indigenous Justice in Canada by Harold R. Johnson

challenging informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

Short, snappy read. I only took a couple days to get through because I wanted to think about it. The author used to be a crown prosecutor and knows how to make an argument that's snappy, engaging and backed up by facts. In this case, he's arguing that when it comes to Indigenous people in Canada, the settler-imposed justice system is not only broken, but unfixable, that the law is often stacked against Indigenous people, and has been for hundreds of years, and that the best solution would be for the First Nations, Métis and Inuit to take back legal sovereignty and run their own justice systems based on redemption, not deterrence.

I was convinced.