Sentencing

Law Thesis (LL.M.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2014.

Events leading up to a healing circle and description of the process in a Labrador community. Note: This is a sample article from the publication. Subscriptions are available from the Native Law Centre.

Looks at the case R v. O'Connor, the Appeal Court's decision to overturn the original conviction and the Indigenous Healing Circle sentence.

Criminology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Ottawa, 1996.

Looks at the family assault case involving Liam Jurrah, an AFL star-player. Community Elders in the community of Yuendumu suggested traditional punishment.

Book review of: History of Canada by Scott W. See.

Focuses on the hunger strike of three female Aboriginal prisoners being held at the men's penitentiary in Springhill, Nova Scotia in February 2003.

Discusses Australian context; crime levels; policing interventions carried out by communities; programs for violent crime; sentencing alternatives; education, drug and alcohol, support and community supervision; and initiatives in Canada, United States, and New Zealand.

Review of current system and the movement to make alternate arrangements accessible to parolees and aboriginal communities under the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (CCRA).

Paper presented at the 3rd National Outlook Symposium on Crime in Australia, "Mapping the Boundaries of Australia's Criminal Justice System" held in Canberra, March 22-23, 1999.

Sociology and Equity Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2007.

Looks at the high rates of incarceration of Indigenous Australians and the economic and social costs of imprisonment, advocates for a holistic approach to reduce over-representation in the criminal justice system, and discusses possible initiatives and their cost.

Overview of the Gladue framework and implementation of Gladue principles and associated criticisms and challenges.

Book review of Indigenous People, Crime and Punishment by Thalia Anthony.

Looks at the use of Indigenous community representatives who talk to defendants about their offences and assist a judicial officer in sentencing.

Looks at services being offered to youth offenders by the Saskatoon Tribal Justice Program and extra judicial measures program staff.

Examines four prominent cases involving sexual violence perpetrated against Indigenous women and girls by white men to demonstrate how the Canadian legal system has failed both to protect Indigenous women and to properly punish those responsible. The four cases are: R v Edmondson, R v Jordan, R v Ramsay, and R v Ramsay. Chapter from Sexual Assault in Canada: Law, Legal Practice and Women's Activism edited by Elizabeth A. Sheehy.

Author uses the rape trial of Nangenutch as a case study to discuss the upheaval created by colonialism, and the imposition of foreign economies, cultures, and laws on Indigenous peoples.

Discusses tribal government's ability to exercise jurisdictional control. Sociology and Legal Studies Capstone Experience Manuscript--Commonwealth Honors College, 2011.

Psychology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2007.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Western Ontario, 1997.

Brief discussion of R v. Kokopenace, racial bias in jury decision-making, similarity-leniency bias, racial composition of juries and structural barriers which contribute to underrepresentation.

A registered nurse talks about her friendship with Malcolm Norris and the development of Friendship Centres in Prince Albert and Winnipeg and school integration in La Ronge.

Interview of the grandsons of Little Bear who discuss lifestyle. They tell stories about Cree raids on Blackfoot;the hanging of Little Bear and murder of a storekeeper's son by a medicine man. Interpreter by Alphonse Littlepoplar.

The interview includes a story of the Grandson of Little Bear who was hung for his part in the Frog Lake massacre. Other stories included the tale of Chuh Chuh,a warrior who scalped a Blackfoot Chief; stories of medicine men; a gambling tale involving a Cree and Blackfoot.

Interview includes a description of traditional life style and the life of settlers on the prairies. It also includes stories of theft and murder by Indians.

Mr. MacAuley tells of the changes that have taken place in Cumberland House including the increase in crime and alcoholism.

Discusses the findings of a study concerning judicial attitudes and experiences with restorative justice practices, and the use of sentencing circles appropriate in gender-violence cases.

Criminology Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 1990.

Book review of: Justice All Their Own by Ted Egan. Review located by scrolling to page 234.

Approaches the case of R v. Kikkik using three different stories of encounter: the trial transcript on statement given by Kikkik, the narrative account in a book by Farley Mowat's The Desperate People, three Inuit sculptures carved by Peggy Ekagina, and the documentary film Kikkik.

Expresses outrage at the not-guilty verdict in the murder trial of Gerald Stanley, and solidarity with Colten Boushie’s family. Chiefs also call for an appeal of the verdict and an inquiry into the way the case was managed by and in the justice system.

Describes the jail sentences given to 6 leaders of the Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) First Nation in Northern Ontario over mineral exploration on a disputed land claim area.

Documentary film of the trial of Kikkik charged with murder and criminal negligence and about her daughter's search for answers about her mother's past. Duration: 52:37.

Brief discussion of the issue in relation to the case of R. v. Stanley, which involved a farmer charged with the second-degree murder of Colten Boushie, a young man from the Cree Red Pheasant First Nation.

Ryerson University Rally supporting Robert Lovelace, KI Chief Donny Morris of the Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) community, (Ontario) and councillors who were jailed for protesting mining development on traditional land. Duration: 10:00.

Book reviews of: Black Eyes All of the Time by Anne McGillivray, Brenda Comaskey; Discrimination and Denial: Systemic Racism in Ontario's Legal and Justice Systems, 1892-1961 by Clayton James Mosher; Essays in the History of Canadian Law VIII in Honour of R.C.B. Risk edited by G. Blaine Baker and Jim Phillips; The Expanding Prison: The Crisis in Crime and Punishment and the Search for Alternatives by David Cayley; Final Appeal: Decision Making in Canadian Courts of Appeal by Ian Greene ...

Consists of an interview with George First Rider where he describes various punishments.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Calgary, 2002.

Law Thesis (LL.M.)--The University of British Columbia (Vancouver), 2012.

Public Policy Project (M.P.P.)--Simon Fraser University, 2017.

Response to conviction prompts Saskatoon Tribal Council to ask for resignation of FSIN Chief.