Chapter 3. A Systems View of the Legal System

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. List of Tables ix
4. Introduction xi
5. PART I. OBSERVATIONS
6. Chapter 1. Sentencing the Newborn 1
7. Chapter 2. Automatic Separation in Canada 19
8. PART II. THEORY
9. Chapter 3. A Systems View of the Legal System 35
10. Chapter 4. The Colonial Lens: Seeing the “Savage” and the “Dying” 51
11. Chapter 5. Case Study: The Stanley Acquittal 63
12. PART III. ANALYSIS: SPATIAL DEFINITIONS IN COLONIAL IDEOLOGY
13. Chapter 6. The Instrumentalized Stereotype of the Unfit Indigenous Mother 83
14. Chapter 7. Courts as the Gateway to Indigenous Over-Incarceration 95
15. Chapter 8. Prison Wastelands and the Removal of Children 131
16. PART IV. ANALYSIS: OTHER ASPECTS OF THE SYSTEM
17. Chapter 9. Law through the Androcentric Lens 147
18. Chapter 10. Factors that Buffer the Legal System from Change 163
19. PART V. SOLUTIONS
20. Chapter 11. The Illegality of Shackling a Pregnant Person in Labour 175
21. Chapter 12. How the Law Protects a Newborn from Automatic Separation from Their Mother 195
22. Conclusion 209
23. Acknowledgements 219
24. Appendix. Canadian Federal/Provincial/Territorial Ministers of Justice (2023) 221
25. Bibliography 223
26. Notes 265
27. Index 303
28. About the Author 310