This article will illustrate a brief summary of two chapters and provide a critical analysis of the readings. Additionally, I will conclude the article by briefly discussing my opinion on the readings. In the featured novel “Crimes of colour: racialization and the criminal justice system in Canada,” authors Wendy Chan and Kiran Mirchandani illustrate their views on Canada's criminal justice system. The criminal justice system and how race and crime are linked. The first chapter, "From Race and Crime to Racialization and Criminalization," addresses the connection that "race" in Canadian criminal law is not truly defined but rather considered a "trait" possessed by individuals and groups (12). The authors wish to argue the transition from “race” to racialization and from “crime” to “criminalization”. They want to focus on the racial process and “highlight the historical influences of colonization and conquest in the formation of the ideological frameworks developed around racial categories” (12). This concept of racialization provides an understanding of racial meanings and other social forces such as political, economic, and religious factors. Also defines groups that were not previously defined as "races" and are now able to take into account different