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.
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.
Looks at the high rates of incarceration of Indigenous Australians and the economic and social costs of imprisonment, advocates for a holistic approach to reduce over-representation in the criminal justice system, and discusses possible initiatives and their cost.
Sexual Assault in Canada: Law, Legal Practice and Women's Activism
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Tracey Lindberg
Priscilla Campeau
Maria Campbell
Description
Examines four prominent cases involving sexual violence perpetrated against Indigenous women and girls by white men to demonstrate how the Canadian legal system has failed both to protect Indigenous women and to properly punish those responsible.
The four cases are: R v Edmondson, R v Jordan, R v Ramsay, and R v Ramsay.
Chapter from Sexual Assault in Canada: Law, Legal Practice and Women's Activism edited by Elizabeth A. Sheehy.
Aboriginal History, vol. 41, no. 1, December 2017, pp. 23-45
Description
Uses the prosecution of Henry Valette Jones and Henry Thomas Morris for the murder of an Aboriginal man to illustrate the shortcomings of the colonial legal system in Australian when it came to prosecuting settlers for violence towards Indigenous peoples.
Indigenous Law Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, Spring, 2002, pp. 113-152
Description
Explores the differences in the delivery of justice between the "Bush Courts" in the Northern Territory and Western Australia with those of Australian town-courts.
Law and History Review, vol. 20, no. 1, Spring, 2002, pp. 59-96
Description
Purpose of the article is to compare how legal regulation of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal girls overlapped and differed based on race, class, and gender oppression.