Systemic Press Inc.
Publishing what institutions have refused to document.
Systemic Press publishes rigorous nonfiction that examines the structural failures of legal, health, and social institutions, including the therapeutic and administrative practices that often harm the people they are meant to protect.
Featured Title
The Invisible Architecture of Abuse
A Study of Systemic Failure
A forensic examination of how institutional structures - legal, healthcare, therapeutic, administrative, and social - are designed in ways that make domestic and sexual violence statistically invisible. Written for researchers, advocates, policymakers, and survivors who have experienced the gap between what institutions promise and what they deliver.
Research Questions
Questions Worth Asking
Research and analysis of the systems responsible for protecting people in Canada.
- Criminal Law What happens when police do not lay charges in a domestic violence case? When There Are No Charges
- Family Court What is coercive control, and why can leaving an abusive relationship be so difficult? Entrapment Without Bruises
- Family Court When can a child have their own lawyer in family court? The Child’s Own Lawyer
- Social Services How can domestic abuse be recognized before a crisis develops? Before the Crisis
The Imprint
We publish books that hold systems accountable - not individuals, but the structures that govern how institutions see, record, and respond.
Systemic Press is an Alberta corporation dedicated to nonfiction that draws on primary evidence, institutional records, and structural analysis. Our titles are written for readers who want to understand not just what happened, but why the system was arranged to allow it.
About the Imprint