INST 348: Aboriginal Justice (Rev. C2 & C3) Report a Broken Link

It has long been recognized that Indigenous people make up a disproportionately large segment of the prison population in Canada. In this course, we discuss the reasons for this over-representation and some of the strategies Indigenous nations and communities are developing to address it.

Unit 1: Aboriginal Peoples’ Over-representation in the Criminal Justice System


Read

  • Introduction (pp. 1–11)
  • Chapter 1, Aboriginal Concepts of Law and Justice—The Historical Realities (pp. 12–25)
  • Chapter 2, Current Realities (pp. 26–81)

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Unit 2: Canadian Justice


Read pages 5–39 of the Special Edition.

Read pages 367–426 of the Special Edition.

Unit 3: Aboriginal People and the Police


Reproduced with permission.

Unit 4: Gendered Differences


Read pages 475–509.

Aboriginal Justice Implementation Commission Website: http://www.ajic.mb.ca/

Read pages  39–57.

Unit 5: Racism and the Criminal Justice System


Unit 6: The Sentencing of Aboriginal People


Read pages 389–430.

Aboriginal Justice Implementation Commission Website: http://www.ajic.mb.ca/

Unit 8: Improving the Canadian Criminal Justice System


Read pages  58–77.

Unit 9: Justice as Self-determination


Read pages 205–242, 274–275.