Indictment: The Criminal Justice System on Trial

Event Description:

Faculty Book Launch - Indictment: The Criminal Justice System on Trial with Prof. Benjamin Perrin
 
Do we need more cops or to defund police? Harm reduction or treatment? Tougher sentences or prison abolition?
 
The debate about Canada’s criminal justice system has rarely been so polarized – or so in need of fresh ideas.
 
Join Prof. Benjamin Perrin as he shares about the existential challenges facing the criminal justice system and fresh ideas for a new transformative justice vision from his upcoming book Indictment: The Criminal Justice System on Trial (University of Toronto Press, October 2023) and behind-the-scenes podcast.
 
Indictment has been hailed as “revolutionary” and named one of Indigo’s Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2023.

Please contact burchill@allard.ubc.ca for a Zoom link. 

Speaker:

Benjamin Perrin

Ben Perrin researches and teaches in the areas of criminal law and international law. He joined UBC in 2007 after serving as a law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada and advising judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and Special Court for Sierra Leone. Ben was lead criminal justice advisor and in-house legal counsel to the Prime Minister of Canada.

In recent years, Ben was confronted with childhood and intergenerational trauma, addiction, mental health challenges, and disability in the lives of people close to him and his own. In this journey, he found freedom and peace in Jesus Christ. He is an advocate for compassionate, evidence-based approaches to pressing criminal justice and societal issues.

Ben is the author of policy papers, journal articles, and several books including Indictment: The Criminal Justice System on Trial (UTP, forthcoming October 2023), Overdose: Heartbreak and Hope in Canada’s Opioid Crisis (Penguin Random House, 2020), Victim Law: The Law of Victims of Crime in Canada (Thomson Carswell, 2017) and Criminal Law: Canadian Law, Indigenous Laws & Critical Perspectives (CanLII, 2023) – a free open-access textbook for law students. 

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