Corrections & Healing

Explores reasons for the popularity of the concept, different theories of restorative justice, the constituencies involved and how they may affect its development and problems with implementation.

Examines how early experiences may effect later behaviours which lead to criminal offences and incarceration.

Author tells the story of his grandmother's death by the hand of a bushman.

Comments on how the primate of the Anglican Church of Canada and the Archbishop of Moosonee are disappointed over the Federal Government's refusal to issue an apology to former students of residential schools.

Discusses compensations the Anglican Church of Canada has paid out to former students of First Nations boarding schools under the old residential schools agreement and the revisions made to the agreement effective, Sept. 19, 2007.

Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Lethbridge, 1999.

Documentary on innovative program that brings the traditional form of Aboriginal justice-circle sentencing to the Canadian justice system as opposed to prison terms. Duration: 57:48.

Article from 1993 Conference proceedings, argues to have the confrontational, adversarial and antagonistic conventional justice system change and include control by Aboriginal peoples in select areas. Excerpt from Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice compiled by Richard Gosse, James Youngblood Henderson, Roger Carter.

Human Development Thesis (M.A.)--Laurentian University, Sudbury, 2013.

Abridged version: The Challenge of Collecting Information on the Involvement of Aboriginal People in the Canadian Criminal Justice System.

American Indian Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2015.

Looks at the effects of colonialism on the over representation of Indigenous people in the criminal justice systems of four countries.

Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 1998.

Sociology and Social Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--Dalhousie University, 2011.

Discusses traditional hearings, Elder assisted hearings and community hearings. Duration: 25:09.

Survey (done in 2000) of prisoners, their families, community representatives and service providers was conducted to discover what supports and services were needed while the men were incarnated and upon their release.

Focuses on reforms that could be make by provincial and/or federal government justice departments in the areas of policing, prosecutions, corrections, victim services, crime prevention, policy and legislation.

Examined pattern and impact of conditions imposed on 1,351 federal Indigenous and non-Indigenous offenders on their first conditional release between April 2013 and March 2017.

Discusses use of restorative justice as an alternative to retributive methods of dealing with offenders.

The author examines her own intellectual and personal colonization and the continued oppression of First Nations people and discusses how Aboriginal women need to be involved in restorative justice.

Looks at the similar issues discussed in the novel with the deaths of Sarah Lee Circle Bear on July 6, 2015 and Sandra Bland on July 13, 2015.

Federal government site providing links to Policy and Legislation, Families of Offenders Portal, Restorative Justice, Citizen's Advisory Committees, Parole and Community Corrections, and reintegration programs.

Study objectives included: development of protocols for participatory research, design and implementation of holistic process, assessment of success of financial investments relative to healing processes, and other unintended benefits to community.

Chapter fifteen from Setting the Agenda for Change, vol. 2, which is also vol. 2 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series.

Originally presented at the Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2002.

Looks at achieving a vision of justice within the principles of Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (IQ - Inuit knowledge).

Survey, conducted though interviews with community members, police occurrence reports, and court records, to assess the levels of disorder, found that crimes varied in frequency and severity across individual communities and opinions about how it should be dealt with differed, suggesting that solutions must be tailored to each individual community.

Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Windsor, 2004.

Discusses traditional justice systems, systemic discrimination and cultural clashes in the present act and its application of criminal law, new initiatives in law enforcement, court systems, corrections and rehabilitation, and recommendations for change.

Criminology Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 1992.

Shows how processes and restrictions of government affected the inclusion/exclusion of certain information based on interviews of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people who worked for the Commission.

Focuses on over-incarceration and criminalization, new approachs to prostitution, murdered and missing women inquiry, inequalities in education, and sex discrimination in the Indian Act.

Book review of Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada edited by Christine Kim, Sophie McCall, and Melina Baum Singer. Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 139.

Some statistics Aboriginal-specific.

Study group consisted of nine men and four women recruited from two minimum security healing lodges, a psychiatric treatment centre, and a medium security institution, who took part in focus groups or individual interviews. All had decreased or ceased engaging in self-harming behavior.

Study includes 13 Indigenous offenders and 14 corrections staff who participated in focus groups or personal interviews about non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) and its treatment. Responses are analyzed using a culturally informed qualitative approach. Culturally-informed and culturally-based interventions appear fundamental in reducing NSSI.

Psychology Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 2003.

Discusses aspects of undergraduate psychiatric nursing practicums done in correctional facilities and implications of the co-existence of concepts of "custody and caring" in such institutions.

Discusses problems training health workers to recognize changes in behavior and personality.

Discusses the colonization, decolonization and healing experiences of Indigenous peoples in four countries.

Law and Justice Thesis (LL.D.)--Southern Cross University, 2009.

Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Manitoba, 2011.

Examines the question of whether most crimes are committed by residents of villages. Data collected through interviews conducted at the Fairbanks Correctional Facility and Spring Creek Correctional Facility in the winter of 1997, as well as examination of pre-sentence investigation reports.

Overview of some factors that show correlation between ciminality and living conditions, and compares Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal invovement in the criminal justice system.

Educational Psychology and Special Education Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2015.

Examines the discrimination and devaluation of Métis and other Aboriginal persons in Canada, especially those in the correctional system, and includes recommendations for changes to the justice system.

Criminology Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 1986.

Criminal Justice Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Albany, State University of New York, 2001.