SOC 3710 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Observational Error, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3710
• Professor: Bill O' Grady

Document Summary

Canada"s indigenous people: first nations (status or non-status) or metis, diverse and distinct people with unique histories, young population, the youth justice system perhaps even more than the adult criminal justice system, is failing aboriginal families . Indigenous people are 58% more likely to be victims of crime: indigenous women are victimized at a rate three times greater than non indigenous women. In 1980 and 2012, 1017 indigenous women and girls were killed and 164 went missing (rcmp) Understanding indigenous youth involvement in the criminal justice system: two factors must be considered, shared experience of indigenous peoples in their relations with settlers, continued impact of intergenerational trauma. Indigenous youth fare worse than non-indigenous youth on all measures of inequality: lower rates of educational attainment, higher rates of unemployment, higher rates of mortality, higher levels of family instability, higher rates of violent death.