LCP4804 Advanced Indigenous Law

LCP4804 Advanced Indigenous Law ___% of federally sentenced women are Ab. - ANSWER-34% .2 examples of government policies for regulation and assimilation of Ind. peoples - ANSWER-1) forced removal of Ind. kids from families and placed in residential schools 2) gov't fraud and corruption .2011, grade 12 completion rate for FN communities - ANSWER-49%, more likely to go to jail than graduate .4 arguments of understanding overrepresentation in CJS? - ANSWER-1) differential criminal justice processing and discrimination 2) focus on higher Ind. offending levels 3) focus on types of offences committed: more serious, more likely to result in jail time 4) CJ policies and practices that have differential impact on Ind. offenders due to SES conditions impacting lives .Canadian Council on Social Development and racism findings - ANSWER-Racism has impact on people's ability to get a job or earn the same amount as white people .Categories of marginalization of Indigenous peoples - ANSWER-1) high residential mobility and poor living conditions 2) poor health, suicide, addiction 3) education and academic advancements 4) employment and income 5) family environment and child welfare .Chandler and Lalonde - ANSWER-Kids and YA's whose identities are weakened or challenged by essential or drastic individual or cultural change are put at huge risk of suicide .Coloniality of power definition - ANSWER-By Quijano: the way how colonial relations are reproduced in modern worn through different institutional processes .Correlation between education and occupation and crime? - ANSWER-Yes, more education/high job position = less likely to commit crimes and be arrested .Criminal law a tool for? (2 things) - ANSWER-1) legitimizing the use of force (criminalizing Ind. protests) 2) imposing different cultural, social and institutional values and processes (residential schools) .Did they accomplish anything from HR complaint? - ANSWER-Yes, ruled in favour, ordered immediate increase in funding .Differential CJ processing: what is overrepresentation attributed to? - ANSWER-1) racial discrimination from CJS agents 2) disconnect between traditional Ind. modes of conflict resolution and Western ways (culture clash) .Differential Treatment Hypothesis - ANSWER-Structural inequality in administration of justice causes overrepresentation in CJS .Does Winnipeg have an Ind. court/Gladue court? - ANSWER-Nope .Example of how colonialism is criminogenic - ANSWER-Cultural dislocation or poverty .Fitzgerald and Carrington's Winnipeg study - ANSWER-High rates of Ind. representation in CJS due to structural characteristics of neighbourhoods they live in .High Residential Mobility - ANSWER-Moving from place to place more often - linked to higher rates of crime .Human rights complaint against Canadian gov't done by? - ANSWER-Cindy Blackstock, First Nations Child and Family Caring Society and AFN .Ind. Americans vs. African Americans killed by cops rate? - ANSWER-Ind. Americans more likely to be killed than African Americans .Ind. peoples make up ___% of Canada, but ___% of federal adult prison population - ANSWER-2%, 17% .Indigenous female inmates represent about 1 in ___ inmates in Canada - ANSWER-1/10 .Indigenous rate of unemployment vs. non-Indigenous peoples - ANSWER-13% vs. 5% .Indigenous youth are ___% more likely to be charged when apprehended than non-Indigenous youth - ANSWER-20% .Is the overrepresentation rate higher or lower for Ind. women compared to men - ANSWER-Higher for women .Issue with Gladue rights? - ANSWER-Not able to reduce overrepresentation, inconsistent use across CJS