The colonial problem : an Indigenous perspective on crime and injustice in Canada /
In the Canadian criminal justice system, Aboriginal peoples are overrepresented as both victims and offenders. The Aboriginal incarcerated population in Canada is rising each year and Aboriginal people are twice as likely to become victims of assaults when compared to non-Aboriginal people. In respo...
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction to indigenous peoples in Canada
- Introduction to an indigenous perspective : ideology and teachings
- Indigenous governance and methods of addressing crime
- Historical and contemporary colonialism
- Canadian legal history : the interpretation of indigenous treaties and rights
- Indigenous peoples and the state : legal manipulation and Indian legislation
- The impact of assimilation : residential schools and intergenerational trauma
- Crime affecting indigenous peoples : over-representation, explanations, and risk factors
- Violence affecting indigenous women : struggle, sexualization, and subjugation
- The real criminals : governments and their corporate priorities and failed agreements
- Modern agreements and land claims : the government's desire for "economic certainty"
- Euro-Canadian "justice" systems and traditional indigenous justice
- Moving forward : lighting the eighth fire.