Krystal Batelaan is a critical theorist who uses a socio-criminological lens to examine colonial violence (particularly various manifestations of anti-Black racism within the CJS), with a focus on Canada's prison system and prison labour practices in Canada. In both her research and teaching, Krystal uses a theoretical lens to make sense of the every day sociological phenomenon that shapes one's lived experience through a deeper understanding of power, social order, and society.