CRIM 2652 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Restorative Justice, Cultural Genocide, Indian Act
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1. R. v. Gladue (1999)
a. Section 718. 2( e )
2. Aboriginal encounters with the CJS
a. Who is a Aoigial offede?
b. Snapshot of the stats
c. Discriminatory practices
3. Historical overview
4. Restorative Justice
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R. v. Gladue
Section 718 2 E
- Purpose of sentencing is to contribute, along with crime prevention initiatives, to respect for the
law and the maintenance of a just, peaceful and safe society by imposing just sanctions that
have one or more of the following objectives:
o To denounce unlawful conduct
o To deter the offender and other persons from committing offences
o To separate offenders from society, where necessary
o To assist in rehabilitating offenders
o To provide reparations for harm done to victims or to the community
o To promote a sense of responsibility in offenders, and acknowledgment of the harm
done to victims and to the community.
- Imprisonment should be the last resort
Historical Background
1. Royal Commission on Aboriginal peoples (1996)
a. First version of the truth convention
b. Drew our attention to the
c. Account for the broader context of colonialism
2. Report of the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry of Manitoba (1999)
a. Creation was in response to 2 events
i. Helle ett osoe’s ude to hite men.
1. Trial only sentenced one of the men
2. Bett did’t get the justie os oe of he pepetatos ee ot
sentenced for the crime of her murder
ii. 1988 – murder of JJ Harper (chief of Island Lake Tribal Council)
1. To popos udeed hi; the ee eoeated padoed
2. Popos did’t ee go ito tial
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