Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP
Description
Investigation examined conduct relating to policing of pubic intoxication, cross-gender searches, missing persons and domestic violence reports, use of force, and handling of files involving youth.
Includes links to complaint, interim and final report, and Commissioner's response.
Research Report (Correctional Service of Canada) ; no. R-391
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Dean Derkzen
Aileen Harris
Kaitlyn Wardrop
Description
Looks at enrollment, completion and attrition rates, and makes profile comparisons for each five programs: Aboriginal Women's Engagement Program, Aboriginal Women's Moderate Intensity Program, Aboriginal Women's High Intensity Program and Aboriginal Women's Self-Management Program-Institution.
Overall sample consisted of 549 federally sentenced women, primarily Indigenous.
Focuses on funding agreements used in different levels of government including: land claims/modern treaties, territorial formula financing, international agreements and treaties, block funding, transfer payments, municipal transfer payments, and institutional authorities.
Found that 60% of unexpected deaths were accidental (motor vehicle crashes, overdose, downing and fire), 33% were due to suicide, and 5% were the result of homicide. Identified three key areas to prevent deaths and support wellness and well-being: connectedness to peers, family, community and culture; access to services; and culturally safe and trauma-informed care.
Saskatchewan History, vol. 34, no. 2, 1981, pp. 57-73
Description
Author examines some of the factors surrounding Riel’s trial for treason concluding that in spite of perceptions of injustice, the trial was fair and in line with the standards of the time
Entire issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 57
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 51, no. 3, Autumn, 2017, pp. 697-724
Description
Author explores the response from French-Canadian peoples living in the United States in the mid-1870s to the execution of Louis Riel; argues that the reaction can help to understand religious and ethnic transnationalism, and resistance to social and political forces in the Canada and the U.S. in the late nineteenth century.
Includes Saskatoon City Council minutes from a meeting on Monday February 9, 1981 discussing a request for the appointment of Rodney Soonias to the Board of Police Commissioners representing the Native and Non-Native community. The matter was referred to the Committee on Committees.
Website contains links to all documents relating to the inquiry: the seven-volume report, transcripts, exhibits, submissions, counsel notebooks, correspondence, etc.
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 46, no. 3, Spring, 2021, pp. 561-587
Description
Reviews three Indigenous visual artistic projects, created in response to the arrest of serial murderer Robert Pickton, and their representations of Indigenous women's historical mistreatment.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 51, no. 3, Fall, 2017, pp. 547-570
Description
Author examines Igloolik Isuma's film as a formal and deliberate illustration of Inuit legal culture, legal practitioners, and legal principles; argues that Isuma places these elements of the Inuit legal system in conversation with the systems of contemporary justice in Canada.
United States Attorney's Bulletin, vol. 69, no. 2, Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons: Legal, Prosecution, Advocacy and Healthcare, March 2021, pp. 209-250
Description
An explanation and breakdown of the process to register sex offenders in the United States.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to page 209.
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 6, no. 1, 2017, pp. 37-63
Description
Reports some findings from a larger research project that focused on post-genocide healing practices in Rwanda. Advocates for community-based and traditional methods for solving socio-economic problems and rebuilding social relations; examines implications for social work education and practice.
Case comment on Brown v Canada (Attorney General), the class action suit in Ontario involving the removal of children from their families on reserve, and placing them with non-Indian adoptive families, and foster and group homes. At issue was whether the Federal government had breached fiduciary or common law duties to prevent loss of identity in post-placement period.
Girlhood Studies, vol. 10, no. 2, Summer, 2017, pp. 97-113
Description
Discusses how the technology, particularly Facebook, has increasingly become a tool to recruit and keep underage girls in the sex trade. Research conducted with 19 staff members of Prince Albert Outreach and 5 survivors indicated the importance of recognizing early signs of exploitation so that intervention could take place, family-based prevention and education, and using survivors as educators.
Describes and compares the politics of land, sovereignty, labour, race relations and law enforcement enacted in the two countries by settler governments. Details general practices and events which illustrate the politics described.
Presents results of six weeks of fact-finding conducted from January to July 2016, interviews and correspondence with police, and complaint mechanisms from August 2016 to January 2017.
Reports findings of survey which asked 23 questions about the Calls to Justice. Topics were: culture, health and wellness, policing, corrections, media and social influencers, education, child welfare, natural resource extraction, human security, and rights.
Novel tells the story of the nineteen-year-old Cree girl from Norway House Cree Nation who was murdered near The Pas, Manitoba on November 13, 1971. Recommended for use with students Grade 10 or above.