CRIM 2652 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Neil Stonechild, Saskatoon Freezing Deaths, Crown Attorney
24 Jul 2020
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The 1994 p4w riots and aftermath in kingston prison for women. Overincarceration of indigenous peoples: more likely to be stopped by police, more likely to be denied bail, spend more time in pre-trial detention, more likely to plead out, more likely to be charged with multiple offences. Socio-historic context: the impact of colonization has had impacts on indigenous peoples even till now, the child welfare system which also took indigenous children from their families and. It continues the cycle of poverty and powerlessness brought them into white families the scooping sixties. In 1996 the government introduced the first comprehensive set of criminal code amendments regarding sentencing: the amendments in section 718 of the cc introduced a degree of restriction on judge decision-making by imposing legislated sentencing guidelines. The aim of these was to reduce carceral sentences - discretion: the meaning of s. 718. 2 remained somewhat vague until the gladue decision.
