CRJS 1013 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Helen Betty Osborne, Neil Stonechild, Winnipeg Police Service
7 Apr 2017
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Example of discrimination within the justice system. Chapter 5 being aboriginal in canada"s justice system: sociologist david stymeist studied (cid:498)ethnics and indians(cid:499) in (cid:498)crow. Over-classification of aboriginal offenders in terms of the security risk that: not evidence but is based on personal reflection of those who are working with them, sapers (2006) recommends = Implement security classification process that ends over- classification. Increase timely access to programs/services = reduce time in medium/max institutions. Judges may be skeptical = (cid:498)get out of jail(cid:499) cards gone down regardless of these courts being present: lacking specific instructions to the judges. Judge, opposing lawyer did not speak aboriginal language: travel to reserves by plane, difficult to communicate = 10s of thousands of aboriginals still speak to sentencing. Circuit courts and language problems their native language. The word (cid:498)guilty(cid:499) does not exist in their language.
