SOC224 Lecture Notes - Homicide
26 Apr 2013
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Lawyers: a lot of marginalized kids don"t have homes or parents to go home to. In canada, we figure the best way to deal with marginalized populations and teaching them how to behave is through the cjs: most of those who are taken in by the police are the aboriginals. Govt reports and investigations suggest: aboriginals are 20% more likely to be charged when apprehended, more likely to be denied bail. Those who are denied bail and held in pre-trial detention are more likely to be found guilty and receive harsher sentences: to spend more time in pre-trial detention, to be charged with multiple offences (often for administrative violations). Violence: aboriginal lives are often overburdened by violence, aboriginal women are 3x more likely to be victims of domestic violence, the homicide rate for aboriginal people grossly exceeds that of other. Canadians: between 1997 and 2000, the aboriginal homicide rate was 7x that of non aboriginal peoples.
