Dying from Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries Into Indigenous Deaths in Custody

by Sherene H. Razack

No matter where in Canada they occur, inquiries and inquests into untimely Indigenous deaths in state custody often tell the same story. Repeating details of fatty livers, mental illness, alcoholic belligerence, and a mysterious incapacity to cope with modern life, the legal proceedings declare that there are no villains here, only inevitable casualties of Indigenous life.

But what about a sixty-seven-year-old man who dies in a hospital in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 144262891X
• ISBN13: 9781442628915
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher