Crime & Offences

Workshop designed to educate and mobilize individuals to take a public stand and public action against violence against women. Slides to accompany workshop.

Contends that the current Canadian system to protect Indigenous women and girls is ineffectual and it is time for a new approach.

Describes the current state of crime and violence in Inuit communities and the programs and services that exist to reduce or eliminate violence against women and girls.

Two of factors that impede law enforcement's ability to respond to Indigenous missing person cases are a timely reporting of cases and the lack of community engagement. This article discusses the key elements in developing tribal community response plans. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to page 137.

Looks at the justification for colonial violence against Native Americans when twenty-one Native Americans were brutally murdered.

Examines how this novel about sexual abuse against Native women disrupts readers and scholars' expectations. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 25.

Social Work Thesis (M.S.W.)--University of Manitoba 2006.

Looks at review of research that has attempted to measure levels of rape and examines National Crime Victimization Survey for context of differences between ethnicities.

Independent civilian observer's mandate was to evaluate Montreal police force's investigation into allegations of sexual violence and abuse of power by the provincial police.

Identifies seven potential areas of improvement to the program including screening criteria and facilitator training.

Discussion about missing Aboriginal women from Saskatchewan and an actiion-call for a support group hoped for from the Saskatchewan Sisters in Spirit 2007 Family Gathering. Includes list of 17 women missing

Reports the results of qualitative interviews with 47 women involved in prostitution.

Family members of missing and murdered women and girls spoke before the Committee.

Senior Counsel for the Family, Children and Youth Section of the Department of Justice appeared before the Committee.

Superintendent, Aboriginal Policing Bureau, Ontario Provincial Police and representatives from National Aboriginal Circle Against Family Violence appeared before the Committee.

Representative from Task Force on Trafficking of Women and Girls in Canada, Canadian Women's Foundation appeared before the Committee.

Representatives from Human Rights Canada and the Zebra Child Protection Centre addressed the Committee.

Representatives from the Native Women's Transition Centre (Winnipeg), Families of Sisters in Spirit, and Carrier Sekani Family Services addressed the Committee.

Ending Violence Association of British Columbia, Ngwaagan Gamig Recovery Centre, and Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada spoke to the Committee.

Representatives from Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development , Department of Public Safety, and Statistics Canada appeared before the Committee.

Representatives from Status of Women Canada appeared before the Committee.

Representatives from the Native Women's Association of Canada spoke to the Committee about the issue of missing and murdered Aboriginal women.

President of the Native Women's Association of Canada and two representatives from the Community Holistic Circle Healing, Hollow Water First Nation appeared before the Committee.

President of the First Nations Chiefs of Police Association and Chief of Police of the Rama Police Service appeared before the Committee.

Author discusses her experience in Federal prison and gives an overview of the U.S. criminal justice system and Federal Indian law.

Criminology Thesis (M.A.)--Wilfrid Laurier University, 2019.

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

Examines the Tupiq program which provides culturally-appropriate treatment for Inuit sex offenders incarcerated in federal correctional facilities.

Reviews literature that may link HIV/AIDS to the legacy of residential schools. The article also outlines how HIV/AIDS is affecting the Aboriginal people and discusses the practices and challenges of attempting to combat the health issue.

Using data for Montreal on Aboriginal peoples' interaction with criminal justice system explores two central hypotheses: high rates of offending and recidivism/reoffending are related to over-reliance on use imprisonment compounded by lack of appropriate services and programing; and lack of targeted prevention approach which takes into account that more Aboriginal people fall into socioeconomic group most vulnerable to involvement in the system.

Discusses how Department of Indian Affairs (DIA) Secretary (1936-52), Thomas Robert Loftus (T.R.L.) MacInnes created and used racializing narratives to respond to Indigenous peoples’ resistance to assimilation and promoted “Indian executions” as a means to address “the problem.”

Confidential report gives background information on the Cypress Hills Massacre. On June 1, 1873 American wolf hunters and whisky traders attacked an Assiniboine camp and killed at least 20 men, women children. The event precipitated the formation of the North-West Mounted Police.

Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2014.

Gathers crime data and information from cases belonging to Athapascan villages in Alaska.

Sociology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 1997.

Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2017.

Canadian Plains Thesis (M.A.)--University of Regina, 2001.

Summarizes the contents of papers submitted to the Department of Justice Canada by Larry K. Bremner, Andrea L.K. Johnston, Gladys Rowe, and Jo Lee Saskamoose.

Social Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Regina, 2004.

Saskatoon portion of study found that Aboriginal people, lone-parents and low income families were vulnerable to violent and major property crimes. High Crime Areas were clustered on west side of inner city.

Looked at clients of the Native Clan Organization's Forensic Behavioral Management Clinic located in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Historical data from closed treatment files reviewed from 1987-1999.

Law Thesis (L.L.M.)--University of Alberta, 1997.