Aboriginal Victimization and Offending: The Picture From Police Records
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Jacqueline Fitzgerald
Don Weatherburn
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 26, no. 4, July/August 2002, pp. 26-28
Description
Investigates the over-representation of Aboriginal people as victims of crime in Australia. The majority of the violent offending against Aboriginal women and children is committed by Aboriginal men.
Social Justice, vol. 29, no. 1/2, Globalization and Environmental Harm, 2002, pp. 144-160
Description
Examines the historical domination and continued oppression created and continued by Western nations and its relation to the perpetuation of crime and injustice in Aboriginal communities.
Summarizes findings from a prototype study of the feasibility of obtaining crime statistics for reserves policed by the RCMP and converting those statistics into Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) format and discusses the difficulty in studying crime within the context of socio-economic conditions.
Aboriginal Law Bulletin, vol. 2, no. 49, April 1991, p. 18
Description
Argues that the legal system operating in Queensland, Australia was not dealing appropriately with the problems in Aboriginal communities and as a result there was uncontrolled violence.
Buffalo Criminal Law Review, vol. 5, no. 2, January 2002, pp. 451-495
Description
Looks at social and cultural inequalities between Aboriginal and non-aboriginal persons in the criminal justice system. Discusses the Indian Act, the White Paper of 1969 and Constitution Act of 1982.
Overview of some factors that show correlation between ciminality and living conditions, and compares Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal invovement in the criminal justice system.
Document intended to provide police with a "guide to using the problem-oriented policing approach" in communities as a method of establishing cooperative working relationships to identify and address problems.
Research Report (Correctional Service of Canada); 2002, no. R-122
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lawrence A. Ellerby
Paula MacPherson
Description
Looked at clients of the Native Clan Organization's Forensic Behavioral Management Clinic located in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Historical data from closed treatment files reviewed from 1987-1999.
Canada and International Humanitarian Law: Peacekeeping and War Crimes in the Modern Era
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Roland D. Chrisjohn
Tanya Wasacase
Lisa Nussey
Andrea Smith
Marc Legault ... [et al.]
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Suggests that the genocide of Aboriginals in Canada has never stopped, but continues to exist in altered form.
Excerpt from Canada and International Humanitarian Law: Peacekeeping and War Crimes in the Modern Era edited by Richard D. Wiggers and Ann L. Griffiths.
FORUM on Corrections Research, vol. 14, no. 3, Focusing on Aboriginal Issues, September 2002, pp. 58-60
Description
Research conducted to examine successful reintegration, development and maintenance of successful behaviours and make recommendations based on findings.
Argues that Canada's lack of support regarding First Nations issues, due to residential schools trauma, is simply a continuation of human rights violations.
Ottawa Law Review, vol. 23, no. 1, 1991, pp. 71-98
Description
Argues that impartiality is impossible when judge's personal biases are viewed as objective reality. Draws on 69 cases (47 from the Northwest Territories) to demonstrate instances where this has occurred and discusses impact on victim..
FORUM on Corrections Research, vol. 14, no. 3, Focusing on Aboriginal Issues, September 2002, pp. 20-24
Description
Argues these offenders are characterized by multiple problems including various types of abuse and identity problems. As such, they pose specific challenges for the corrections process. Information was gathered by study conducted in Vancouver.
Statistics include demographic information, most serious offences and charges, sentence length, responses to geographic questions, mobility patterns, and conclusions. National results as well as provincial and territorial.