CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: 1969 White Paper, Intensify, Red Power Movement
17 Apr 2017
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The need for radical change in the canadian criminal justice. System: applying a human rights framework in d. long & o. patricia dickason, eds. , visions of the. Spirit matters: aboriginal people and the corrections and. Mandatory to read the executive summary, recommended to read the whole report. Outline: indigenous people & the cjs: an overview, colonial development of the cjs, post-confederation, post-rebellion, rcap, oka, previous reports, rcap overview, findings & recommendations, systemic failures. In fact, the subsequent decade registered an increase in the rates of aboriginal over-representation in canada"s criminal justice system. As noted in a report from the office of the correctional investigator (2009, 6:: aboriginal over-representation has grown in recent years: between 1998 and 2008, the federal aboriginal population increased by 19. 7%. Moreover, the number of federally sentenced aboriginal women increased by a staggering 131% over this period.
