Crime & Offences

Displaying 301 - 350 of 1739

A Compendium of Recommendations for Action on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada: Justice-Related Recommendations from Government and Community Reports between 2003-2015

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Manitoba Justice
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.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Con(TEXT) 1: A Project Fact (A) Update for 26 April 2018

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Project Fact (a)

Plain language explanation of legal principles involved in analysis of R. v. Stanley, the case in which Gerald Stanley, a Saskatchewan farmer, was charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of a 22-year-old Cree man, Colton Boushie, and was subsequently acquitted.

Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women: Canada

Alternate Title
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Forty-second Session, 20 October-7 November 2008
United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
For materials relevant to Aboriginal women, see points 17-20 (matrimonial real property) and 29-32 (violence and missing or murdered).
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Conference Draws Attention to Cases of Missing Women

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Chelsea Jones
Eagle Feather News, vol. 11, no. 9, September 2008, p. 1,3
Looks at a conference held in Regina, Saskatchewan to discuss the disturbing number of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada and Mexico. Article located on page 1 and by scrolling to page 3.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Conflicting Perspectives on the Role of the Village Public Safety Officer in Native Villages in Alaska

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Otwin Marenin
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 3, Summer, 1994, pp. 297-319
Study uses information from surveys of villagers and service providers—including VPSO coordinators, Alaska State Troopers, business owners, social services workers, BIA employees—conducted in two different villages to contrast the different perceptions of Village Public Safety Officers (VPSOs).
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Confronting Australian Genocide

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Colin Tatz
Aboriginal History, vol. 25, Special Section: Genocide?: Australian Aboriginal History in International Perspective, 2001, pp. [16]-36
Comments on genocide denialists and their reasonings.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Conquest: "Sexual Violence & American Indian Genocide"

Alternate Title
Community Media Center's Media & Democracy Lecture Series ; Feb.7, 2006
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Andrea Smith
Presents a video lecture given by a scholar/activist on the topic of her book. Duration: 1:16:30.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Considering Young Aboriginal Women, Family and Legal Issues

Alternate Title
FLEW: Family Law Education for Women Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Tamar Witelson
Emily Hill
Webinar includes topics such as: young aboriginal women in the family law system, laws affecting Aboriginal families and family property, and more. Duration: 1:12:10.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

The Contextual Nature of American Indian Criminality

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Donald E. Green
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 17, no. 2, 1993, pp. 99-119
Reviews selected studies in Aboriginal criminality and criminal justice, and presents additional crime data from the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR).
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women: Interim Report in Follow-up to the Review of Canada's Sixth and Seventh Reports

Alternate Title
[United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women]
E-Books
Author/Creator
Government of Canada
Government's response to Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women's recommendation about investigation of cases of missing or murdered Aboriginal women.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Court Upholds U.S. Extradition Order

Articles » General
Whitehorse Star, June 27, 2007, p. 7
Order from the Appeal Court that John Graham be returned to the United States to face charges relating to the 1975 murder of Anna Mae Pictou Aquash.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

[Cree Traditional Cultural Teachings]

Alternate Title
A Sacred Lodge of Learning: First Nations University of Canada
Breaking the Laws
Human Birth
Land Prophecy
Mossbag and Women's Teachings
Our Treaty Relatives
Pipe Laws
Protocol and Smudging
Spiritkeepers
Suicide
The Sound of the Universe and the Creation of Mother Earth
Treaties
Uncle's Four Laws
Wesakechak
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Sylvia McAdam
Series of 15 short videos (approx. 5 min. each) on a variety of topics.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Crime and Control in Three Nishnawbe-Aski Communities: An Exploratory Investigation

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Donald J. Auger
Anthony N. Doob
Raymond P. Auger
Paul Driben
Canadian Journal of Criminology, vol. 34, no. 3-4, July-October 1992, pp. [317]-338
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.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Crime and Justice in American Indian Communities

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lisa M. Poupart
Social Justice, vol. 29, no. 1/2, Globalization and Environmental Harm, 2002, pp. 144-160
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.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Crime Crisis Spurs Quest For Traditional Answers

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
StarPhoenix, February 3, 2006, p. A11
Explains why customary laws are being abandoned and argues that there is a need to find traditional methods of control and punishment in order to deal with the rising crime rate.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Crime in Aboriginal Communities: Saskatchewan, 1989

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lee Wolff
Summarizes findings from a prototype study of the feasibility of obtaining crime statistics for reserves policed by the RCMP and converting those statistics into Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) format and discusses the difficulty in studying crime within the context of socio-economic conditions.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Crime Prevention in Aboriginal Communities

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Rick Linden
Report submitted to the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry Implementation Commission. Summarizes various reduction strategies and gives examples of successful programs.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

[Crime Report re Little Pine Reserve Indians ... Alleged Sun Dance]; [Re: Indian Sundance, Rocky Mountain House District, Alberta]

Alternate Title
[Selected RCMP Documents Regarding the Sun Dance]
Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
W. Kingston
A. H. McCormack
Native Studies Review, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 93-95

First document is a report written by Kingston, dated July 6, 1928, asks for instructions regarding whether or not participants should be charged given the fact that the event did not appear to violate the Indian Act. Second document is a letter by McCormack, describing ceremonies which took place at Rocky Mountain House and Hobbema, Alberta.

Login or Register to create bookmarks.

The Criminal Code and Aboriginal People

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Leonard Mandamin
Dennis Callihoo
Albert Angus
Marion Buller
University of British Columbia Law Review, Special Edition: Aboriginal Justice, 1992, pp. 5-40
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.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

The Criminal Code of Canada: A Review Based on the Minister's Reference

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
H. Archibald Kaiser
University of British Columbia Law Review, Special Edition: Aboriginal Justice, 1992, pp. 41-146
Lengthy review (100 pages), is a background study for the Law Reform Commission of Canada's report on Aboriginal Peoples and Criminal Justice; covers wide range of topics, both historical and contemporary, concerning the Canadian justice system's treatment of Aboriginal peoples.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Criminal Jurisdiction in Indian Country

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
M. Brent Leonhard
United States Attorney's Bulletin, vol. 69, no. 2, Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons: Legal, Prosecution, Advocacy and Healthcare, March 2021, pp. 45-78
An examination of the complexity of overlapping criminal jurisdictions between tribal, municipal, state, and federal officials that could impede the solving of murdered and missing Indigenous females. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to page 45.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Criminal Jurisdiction in Indian Country: The Solution of Cross Deputization

Alternate Title
Indigenous Law & Policy Center Occasional Paper Series
Indigenous Law & Policy Center Working Paper ; 2008-01
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Hannah Bobee
Allison Boisvenu
Anderson Duff
Kathryn E. Fort
Wenona T. Singel
Indigenous Law & Policy Center Working Paper
Analyzes the issues of cross deputization by covering federal Indian law, state criminal jurisdiction, law enforcement structure, use of cross-deputization, cooperative agreements, and solutions for streamlined law enforcement.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.
Subscribe to Crime & Offences