LAWS 1000 Study Guide - Chief Operating Officer, Structural Inequality
Document Summary
Canada and first nations: millions of aboriginals across canada originally, canada"s history is broken into 4 stages (limiting) - caveats, foolish to summarize such complex history into simplistic categories, separation. Huge physical separation between aboriginals and new comers: contact/cooperation. Several hundred years of peace between aboriginals and new comers: many aboriginals taught new settlers, mass illness (aboriginals not previously exposed to brought by the settlers, assimilation and displacement. Overrepresentation: of aboriginals within correctional facilities (ie. jails, the scale of incarceration for aboriginals is massive. Predetermined outlook on an individual on a group that is negative: individual bias - towards a particular person, systemic bias - as a more generalized look- group. Profiling - generalize information that disadvantage certain groups. October 17, 2013: structural inequality and poverty. Aboriginals are substantially more likely to be poverty conditions: systemic poverty enforcement available (increase in crimes caught) Overrepresentation cont"d: these conflict with one another.
