CRI491H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Mass Incarceration, Public Safety Canada, 1969 White Paper
Document Summary
Part 1 colonial continuities and the history of the present. To understand the past is to understand the conditions that have resulted in shaping & informing our contemporary moment. Histories can gives us sense of foundations & structures of the state of canada. Enable us to identify how racism, inequality, exclusion were built in to these structures. Helps us see how they operate in the present. Ex. indigenous peoples comprise approx 4-5% of national adult pop in canada but approx 30% of national adult pop in penitentiaries. Sometimes also refers to current situation as disproportionate representation . Approach that implies critique of disproportion btw national pop & penitentiary. Approach that connects indigenous over incarceration in canada to mass incarceration in us, particularly of black people. Division of powers in canada related to justice & criminal law. Definition of crimes & codification via criminal code of canada first code dates back to 1892.
