Descriptive analysis provides several important findings centered on risky life style factors, work in sex trade, addictions, homelessness, and elapsed time before disappearance was reported.
Journal of Aboriginal Health, vol. 5, no. 2, First Nations Communities in Crisis, November 2009, pp. 61-87
Description
Looks at the stressors such as poverty, child welfare, youth gangs, policing and domestic violence and suggests that a realistic plan must be developed to foster healthy communities.
Mapping the Boundaries of Australia's Criminal Justice System
National Outlook Symposium on Crime in Australia ; 3rd, 1999
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Byron Davis
Description
Paper presented at the 3rd National Outlook Symposium on Crime in Australia, "Mapping the Boundaries of Australia's Criminal Justice System" held in Canberra, March 22-23, 1999.
Broadcast discusses after-effects of ruling in the Donald Marshall, Jr. case and concerns about aggressive lobster fishing. Includes synopsis and "Did You Know?" section.
Duration: 7:30.
Looks at an amendment to the Sentencing Act 1995 in Australia that requires a mandatory minimum prison sentences for adults convicted of property offenses.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 12, no. 7, July 2009, p. 10
Description
Looks at a coast to coast bike tour, by members of Peacekeepers Pedaling for Aboriginal Diabetes (PPAD), to raise awareness of Type 2 Diabetes.
Article located by scrolling to page 10.
Report on finding of investigation by RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) members for complaints against other members involving injuries or death in Canada between April 1, 2002 and March 1, 2007.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 2, 1999, pp. 27-52
Description
Examines the United States government's case against American Indian Movement activist, Leonard Peltier and the FBIs unofficial agenda taken against AIMs political activism.
Dismissed charges against Donald Keepness, and the judge denounced the actions of the Saskatchewan conservation officers in an area of Treaty 4 that is the Muscowpetung First Nation in the Fort Qu'Appelle area.
Law Thesis (LL.M.)--University of Ottawa, 1999.
"This thesis compares and contrasts the current legal protections provided to sexually abused, non-Aboriginal children with that afforded to Aboriginal children of Canada."
Presents a brief synopsis and interpretation of the issues presented at the inquest, the verdict, and recommendations made by the jury. The two men died while in custody on January 8, 2006, when a fatal fire broke out in the cellblock area of the Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service ("NAPS") detachment in Kashechewan.
History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 1999. Presents a Cree perspective on contact and relationships with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).
Australian Indigenous Law Reporter, vol. 4, no. 3, 1999, p. 114
Description
Discusses how 'zero tolerance policing' may generate more police Aboriginal contacts and in doing so might potentially increase Indigenous incarceration rates