Review of the Literature on Aboriginal Sex Offenders of Canada, New Zealand, and Australia
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Dewey J. Ertz
[Christopher Lobanov-Rostovsky]
Description
Provides synopsis of limited information available on this specific population.
Appendix includes Review of the Literature on Aboriginal Sex Offenders of Canada, New Zealand, and Australia by Christopher Lobanov-Rostovsky.
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 187, no. 16, November 03, 2015, pp. E463-E464
Description
Reports on the relationship between child sexual abuse and youth suicide in Nunavut which has a suicide rate nearly 10 times greater than the rest of Canada.
Reports about the years of neglect by professionals and the social care system that led to the death of a young Aboriginal woman, Paige Gauchier, from a drug overdose on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
Duration: 21:13.
Report by the BC Representative for Children and Youth Paige's Story: Abuse, Indifference and a Young Life Discarded.
Years of neglect by professionals and the social care system led to the death of a young Aboriginal woman from a drug overdose in Vancouver's downtown eastside. This report is her story.
Related documentary A Life Discarded.
Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, vol. 27, no. 2, After Equality, 2015, pp. 311-335
Description
"This article examines the role this figure [an abused Aboriginal child] has played in assertions of Australian law's violent jurisdictions, in the past and in the present".