CRM 3318 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Finding Dawn, The Roots, Chinese Head Tax In Canada
29 Sep 2016
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Current abuses with the criminal justice system that violate contemporary human rights can include: Racial discrimination and failures to ensure a fair trial: treated unfairly and concern for dignity. Failure to exercise an appropriate duty of care for those in custody. Failure to use arrest and imprisonment as sanctions of last resort. Failure to ensure freedom, from cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment. The roots of the crisis of indigenous people in the criminal justice system can be found in colonial dispossession. The politics and outcomes of colonization are not just historical. The contemporary relationship between indigenous people and crime and punishment are structured by these long term relationships: governed by society where the very foundation is illegal. Wednesday, september 28, 2016: not allowing the jurisdiction of aboriginal law. There were indigenous communities and had a way of governing themselves. Some communities had annual meetings to see how to deal with problems.
