Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice write by Kent Roach. This book was released on 2019-01-21. Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In August 2016 Colten Boushie, a twenty-two-year-old Cree man from Red Pheasant First Nation, was fatally shot on a Saskatchewan farm by white farmer Gerald Stanley. In a trial that bitterly divided Canadians, Stanley was acquitted of both murder and manslaughter by a jury in Battleford with no visible Indigenous representation. In Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice Kent Roach critically reconstructs the Gerald Stanley/Colten Boushie case to examine how it may be a miscarriage of justice. Roach provides historical, legal, political, and sociological background to the case including misunderstandings over crime when Treaty 6 was negotiated, the 1885 hanging of eight Indigenous men at Fort Battleford, the role of the RCMP, prior litigation over Indigenous underrepresentation on juries, and the racially charged debate about defence of property and rural crime. Drawing on both trial transcripts and research on miscarriages of justice, Roach looks at jury selection, the controversial “hang fire” defence, how the credibility and beliefs of Indigenous witnesses were challenged on the stand, and Gerald Stanley's implicit appeals to self-defence and defence of property, as well as the decision not to appeal the acquittal. Concluding his study, Roach asks whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's controversial call to “do better” is possible, given similar cases since Stanley's, the difficulty of reforming the jury or the RCMP, and the combination of Indigenous underrepresentation on juries and overrepresentation among those victimized and accused of crimes. Informed and timely, Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice is a searing account of one case that provides valuable insight into criminal justice, racism, and the treatment of Indigenous peoples in Canada.
Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice
Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice write by Kent Roach. This book was released on 2019. Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An examination of the case involving twenty-two-year-old Cree man Colten Boushie from Red Pheasant First Nation who was fatally shot by white farmer Gerald Stanley on a Saskatchewan farm. Stanley was acquitted of both murder and manslaughter and the author puts forth the idea that it may have been a miscarriage of justice.
The Colonial Problem
The Colonial Problem - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Colonial Problem write by Lisa Monchalin. This book was released on 2016-03-08. The Colonial Problem available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Indigenous peoples are vastly overrepresented in the Canadian criminal justice system. The Canadian government has framed this disproportionate victimization and criminalization as being an "Indian problem." In The Colonial Problem, Lisa Monchalin challenges the myth of the "Indian problem" and encourages readers to view the crimes and injustices affecting Indigenous peoples from a more culturally aware position. She analyzes the consequences of assimilation policies, dishonoured treaty agreements, manipulative legislation, and systematic racism, arguing that the overrepresentation of Indigenous peoples in the Canadian criminal justice system is not an Indian problem but a colonial one.
Neo-Colonial Injustice and the Mass Imprisonment of Indigenous Women
Neo-Colonial Injustice and the Mass Imprisonment of Indigenous Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Neo-Colonial Injustice and the Mass Imprisonment of Indigenous Women write by Lily George. This book was released on 2020-09-26. Neo-Colonial Injustice and the Mass Imprisonment of Indigenous Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book closes a gap in decolonizing intersectional and comparative research by addressing issues around the mass incarceration of Indigenous women in the US, Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand. This edited collection seeks to add to the criminological discourse by increasing public awareness of the social problem of disproportionate incarceration rates. It illuminates how settler-colonial societies continue to deny many Indigenous peoples the life relatively free from state interference which most citizens enjoy. The authors explore how White-settler supremacy is exercised and preserved through neo-colonial institutions, policies and laws leading to failures in social and criminal justice reform and the impact of women’s incarceration on their children, partners, families, and communities. It also explores the tools of activism and resistance that Indigenous peoples use to resist neo-colonial marginalisation tactics to decolonise their lives and communities. With most contributors embedded in their indigenous communities, this collection is written from academic as well as community and experiential perspectives. It will be a comprehensive resource for academics and students of criminology, sociology, Indigenous studies, women and gender studies and related academic disciplines, as well as non-academic audiences: offering new knowledge and insider insights both nationally and internationally.
Truth and Conviction
Truth and Conviction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Truth and Conviction write by L. Jane McMillan. This book was released on 2018-11-01. Truth and Conviction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The name “Donald Marshall Jr.” is synonymous with “wrongful conviction” and the fight for Indigenous rights in Canada. In Truth and Conviction, Jane McMillan – Marshall’s former partner, an acclaimed anthropologist, and an original defendant in the Supreme Court’s Marshall decision on Indigenous fishing rights – tells the story of how Marshall’s fight against injustice permeated Canadian legal consciousness and revitalized Indigenous law. Marshall was destined to assume the role of hereditary chief of the Mi’kmaw Nation when, in 1971, he was wrongly convicted of murder. He spent more than eleven years in jail before a royal commission exonerated him and exposed the entrenched racism underlying the terrible miscarriage of justice. Four years later, in 1993, he was charged with fishing eels without a licence. With the backing of Mi’kmaw chiefs, he took the case all the way to the Supreme Court to vindicate Indigenous treaty rights in the landmark Marshall decision. Marshall was only fifty-five when he died in 2009. His legacy lives on as Mi’kmaq continue to assert their rights and build justice programs grounded in customary laws and practices, key steps in the path to self-determination and reconciliation.
