POLS 2200 Study Guide - Final Guide: Canadian Bar Association

• School: York University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2200
• Professor: Naomi Couto

Document Summary

The royal commission on aboriginal peoples (rcap) recognized that the relationship between. Aboriginal peoples and the justice system is unfair and biased. Almost all policies directed at aboriginal peoples in canada are designed and implemented by federal, provincial and territorial governments and a variety of related bodies. Extreme overrepresentation of aboriginals as incarcerated individuals. A(cid:271)o(cid:396)igi(cid:374)als (cid:373)ake up (cid:1007)% of the total ca(cid:374)adia(cid:374) populatio(cid:374) (cid:271)ut (cid:373)ake up (cid:1006)5% of ca(cid:374)ada"s p(cid:396)iso(cid:374) population (2007/08) Immediate effects of over-incarceration is the negative impact on incarcerated individuals. Structural problems that lead to the social and economic marginality of aboriginal people media income for non-aboriginal population was ,394 and the median for aboriginals was. The colo(cid:374)ial e(cid:454)pe(cid:396)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)e. a(cid:272)(cid:272)o(cid:396)di(cid:374)g to rcap (cid:862)the (cid:396)elatio(cid:374)ship of (cid:272)olo(cid:374)ialis(cid:373) p(cid:396)o(cid:448)ides a(cid:374) overarching conceptual and historical link in understanding much of what has happened to. An early link between colonialism and overrepresentation was in a 1988 report by michael.