LAWS 3001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Solitary Confinement, Restorative Justice, Social Exclusion
15 Oct 2018
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Research paper (nov 27: research paper worth 25, choose a topic within the field of gender & the law (doesn"t have to be limited to. Canadian context: 8-10 pages (double-spaced, minimum of six academic sources (can use course texts, citation style: pick one & be consistent. Should there be alternatives: healing lodges, rehab centres. Hyper-gendering of prisons: transgender & gender non-conforming people are disproportionately poor/homeless/suffer from mental illness + disproportionately criminalized/imprisoned. Intersections btwn gender & race 47% of black transgendered persons have experiences of incarceration compared to 12% of white transgender persons (national transgender. Criminalization of indigenous women: number of federally sentenced indigenous women has increased 60% over past decade, bill c-41 enacted in 1996 focus was on sentencing reforms + to account for historical. 2: balfour judges continue to rely on common law principles of individual blame worthiness & deciding on a punishment proportionate to seriousness of the offence.
