Overview: The Critical Perspectives: Transforming Justice 2025 conference took place May 14th to 16th, 2025. Transforming Justice offered a space for critical dialogue about transforming conceptions of justice and how justice is upheld and undermined under current systems in Canada. Scholars who study the Canadian legal and prison system argue that present practices create and sustain inequalities, as reflected by the large numbers of Indigenous, Black, gender diverse, disabled, socio-economically marginalized, and other oppressed peoples behind bars. Transforming Justice created a space for those working across academic and community settings to exchange ideas and weave diverse understandings of how practices of justice might be transformed across law, policing, sentencing, incarceration, politics, and community organizing. The conference was brought to you by the departments of Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Victoria (UVic) and the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies’ (CAEFS) Centre for Research into the Processes & Outcomes of Incarceration (CRPOI), in collaboration with the Critical Perspectives: Criminology and Social Justice national committee and the University of Winnipeg’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Justice Studies (CIJS).
Call for submissions: The Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research (IJR) will publish a thematic issue on the conference theme. The IJR invites conference participants to submit academic, artistic, cinematic, or other visual contributions for consideration. The IJR is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal that publishes works from across the disciplines on issues in justice. More information about the journal—along with downloadable past issues—can be found on the website: https://www.cijs.ca/ijr-volume-15-call-for-papers
