JUSTICE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES CANADA

ISBN-13: 9780367074555 / Twarda / 2023

Opis

This book complies the work of leading researchers to provide a broad overview of criminal justice issues that Indigenous people in Canada have faced historically and continue to face today. It is essential reading for those interested in the struggles of the Indigenous peoples in Canada as well as anyone studying race, crime and justice.

Spis treści

Introduction.  Part 1: Questions of Theory and Justice.  Chapter 1. Justicia Canadiana.  Chapter 2. Settler Colonialism and the Criminalization of Indigenous People in Canada.  Chapter 3. Frail Legitimacies: Examining the Settler Colonial Legal-Politics Underlying the Wet’suwet’en Crisis.  Chapter 4.  A Strategy for Achieving Indigenous Justice: A Seven “R” Plan.  Part 2: Features of the Criminal Justice System.  Chapter 5. A Commentary on First Nations Policing.  Chapter 6. Swimming Upstream in the Criminal Justice System: The Role of the Bail System in the Over-representation of Indigenous Peoples in Canadian Correction Facilities.  Chapter 7. Attempts at Reconciliation Through Criminal Law: Tracing the Historical Applications of the Gladue Principles.  Chapter 8. Criminal Justice Reform and the Mass Imprisonment of Indigenous People in Canada.  Chapter 9. Indigenous Women: Living in a State of Injustice. Reflections on the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry of Manitoba and Continued Injustices faced by Indigenous women in Canada.  Part 3:  In/Justice in Practice.  Chapter 10. Family Matters: Home is the Heart of the Indigenous Prison Crisis.  Chapter 11. Indigenous Identity and Correctional Programming: The Effects of a Contemporary Colonial Project.  Chapter 12.  Leaving the Iron House: The Red Road Out of Prison.  Chapter 13. The Duty to Do Better: Becoming a Trauma-Informed Lawyer.  Chapter 14.  Indigenous People Courts: A Commentary.

O autorze

Kathryn M. Campbell is a Full Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.  She holds a B.A in psychology (McGill), an M.Phil in Criminology (Cantab), a Ph.D. in criminologie (Université de Montreal) and a BCL/LLB (McGill).  Professor Campbell has long been interested in studying issues of social justice, including questions of equality and rights under the law, for various individuals and groups. Professor Campbell has published extensively in the areas of  miscarriages of justice, young persons and criminal law, and Indigenous justice issues. 

 

Stephanie Wellman is Manitoba Métis from Treaty One Territory, now residing on the traditional unceded, unsurrendered Territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation. She holds an M.A. in Criminology from the University of Ottawa; her research focused on Indigenous over-incarceration in Canadian prisons and issues of identity. She is currently the Director of Social Development at the Assembly of First Nations.