SOC 3710 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fetus, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Inuit

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3710
• Professor: Ryan Broll

Document Summary

Indigenous people have a high rate of child abuse and neglect: between 1980 and 2012, 1017 indigenous women and girls were killed and. 164 went missing (according to rcmp: underestimate because this relies on reports submitted to the rcmp, over 200 of these cases were unsolved. Indigenous youth fare worse than non-indigenous youth on all measures of inequality: lower rates of educational attainment, higher rates of unemployment, higher rates of mortality, higher levels of family instability, higher rates of violent death. In june 2011, the prime minister, on behalf of the government of canada, apologized in the house of commons. Residential schools (video clip: about 3,000 died in the school system, survivors still traumatized. What can be done? (cid:498)for policy-makers, focusing on crime (managing the symptom) may be more practical than addressing the social problems(cid:499) )t doesn"t work to focus on the symptom (cid:523)crime(cid:524) than addressing the social problems, and the root of the problems.