CRI343H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Restorative Justice, Social Inequality, Prison Abolition Movement
9 Jan 2018
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Week 6 indigenous criminal justice systems and the issue of resistance. But in the renewed interest, different aspects of indigenous justice have came back, like restorative justice. In the second diagram, the arrow looking backwards is what we are talking about. The idea that the history of modernization is looked back upon, what was replaced often resurges. Resurgence of interest in indigenous cjs, turns modernization on its head: note that there is a lot of diversity among different indigenous groups/tribes. Indigenous cjs in north america are generally oral, unwritten systems. Law is found in ceremonies, teachings, oral tradition. Indigenous cjs tend to govern many aspects of peoples" lives, not just theft or murder, but people"s life in general. We saw this in africa, and later in islamic systems: we can see divergence in cjs where they tend not to be adjudicated. The law tends not to be known by scholars and judges.
