Crime & Offences

Survey findings indicate while violence is rare, daily harassment and verbal assaults are relatively common.

Interdisciplinary Program in American Indian Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Arizona, 2008.

A comprehensive statistical analysis of the effect and repercussions of violent crime among Native Americans as both victims and offenders.

Findings reveal that the rate of violent crime from self reported victimizations for Native Americans and Alaska Natives is more than twice the national average.

Explores printed media coverage of Native Americans to determine whether racial and or ethnicity profiling differs from others and whether it contributes to stereotyping.

Global and International Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2015.

Compilation of recommendations from reports dealing with missing and murdered Aboriginal women and assessment of actions taken in response to them. Related documents: Master List of Recommendations. Executive Summary.

Author argues that violence in Cherokee communities can be attributed to the combination social-structural problems found on reservations and the erosion of traditional cultural norms.

Social Work Thesis (M.S.W.)--The University of Manitoba, 2000.

Argues that methods of keeping and gathering statistics on crime may cause the nature of violence against Aboriginal women to be misunderstood and that the numbers continue to underestimated.

Investigates the experiences that Aboriginal victims have with the Canadian criminal justice system.

"This paper tells the history of many factors and events that finally resulted in the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement".

Discusses the 1956 murder trial of Steve Angulalik, one of the most famous and prosperous Inuk in the world.

Story of the Canadian activist who was murdered in 1976.

Reviews findings of 65 major studies, surveys, conference proceedings, inquiries and reports.

Systematic review of relevant Canadian literature found that subjects such as human trafficking and cyberbullying were significantly under-researched and research base was very narrow in scope due to lack diversity.

Annotated bibliography.

Interview with the respected storyteller and singer Antoine Lonesinger. Interview includes the Legend of Cut Knife Hill and stories of BlackRock and Chokecherry Wood.

Interview includes two stories: the first about a boy who saves a boy and wins a wife in the process; a second about a boy who upon returning to his band with a wife becomes chief.

Interview includes a biographical account of Antoine Lonesinger's life that includes stories about farming, trapping, house construction and the making of charcoal and lime. He also tells of the murder of an Indian Agent at the hands of a Blackfoot named Owl Eyes.

Questions divided into process and actions. Part of document Families First: A Manitoba Indigenous Approach to Addressing the Issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.

Brief overview of activities relating to missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. Part of Families First: A Manitoba Indigenous Approach to Addressing the Issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.

Lists names of Indigenous, national and international organizations, municipal and provincial/territorial governments and political parties, who they represent, and whether they were calling for an inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls or some alternate actions. Part of Families First: A Manitoba Indigenous Approach to Addressing the Issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.

Compilation of recommendations from reports of inquiries, committees, and nongovernmental organizations about the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. Appendix to Families First: A Manitoba Indigenous Approach to Addressing the Issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.

Lists type of process (commission, inquiry, inquest), report title, catalyst, purpose, recommendations, etc. Part of Families First: A Manitoba Indigenous Approach to Addressing the Issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.

Highlights five court cases involving violence against Aboriginals: Doe v Metropolitan Toronto(Municipality) Commissioners of Police, Odhavji Estate v Woodhouse, Hill v Hamilton-Wentworth Regional Police Services Board, Thompson v Webber, and Patrong v Wayne Banks and Others. Part of Families First: A Manitoba Indigenous Approach to Addressing the Issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

Law Thesis (LL.M.)--York University, 2014.

Describes how aboriginal cultural ethics of non-interference have negatively impacted the Aboriginal experience in the criminal justice system.

Discussion of feedback that developed between researchers of the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (CIS), Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) and people from First Nations Child and Family Services Agencies (FNCFS Agencies).

Comments on the application of the model to a topic in for a first year sociology class on crime and deviance.

Book review of: Arctic Justice: On Trial for Murder by Shelagh D. Grant.

Book review of, Arctic Justice: On Trial For Murder, Pond Inlet, 1923 by Shelagh D. Grant.

Collection of primary documents relating to first Inuit tried and executed for murder under Canadian law.

Comments on a two-year study of abuse and neglect of Native American and Native Alaskan children based on records from the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS).

Looks at the impact and response to the Getting it Together conference. While there has been changes in regards to restorative justice initiatives, conditional sentences, and reduced imprisonment for fine defaults, the continued over-incarceration of Indigenous people remains a concern.

Arrest in the murder of Anna Mae Pictou Aquash a member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) who was murdered on the Pine Ridge reserve in 1976.

Native Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 2020.

Art Davis, a professor of sociology, hired Jim Brady as a research technician/interviewer for work in the north. Davis discusses Brady's work, his personality, his politics and compares Brady to Malcolm Norris.

Radio program covers the stories of four women: Sarah Skunk, Shelly Tannis Dene, Maisy Marie Odjick, Claudette Priscilla Osborne.

Provides overview of society including spirituality, organization. kinship, culture, customs, ceremony, ritual, and law. Chapter 2 from: Aboriginal Benchbook for Western Australia Courts by Stephanie Fryer-Smith. Chapter 2 located by scrolling to page 2:1.

Discussion of the Community Intervention Scale (CIS) and Community Risk/Needs Management Scale (CRNMS) which were primarily designed for use with male and Caucasian prison population.

Provides synopsis of limited information available on this specific population. Appendix includes Review of the Literature on Aboriginal Sex Offenders of Canada, New Zealand, and Australia by Christopher Lobanov-Rostovsky.

Psychology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Regina, 2002.