1st Edition

Justice, Indigenous Peoples, and Canada A History of Courage and Resilience

Edited By Kathryn M. Campbell, Stephanie Wellman Copyright 2024
370 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

370 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

370 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Justice, Indigenous Peoples, and Canada: A History of Courage and Resilience brings together the work of a number of leading researchers to provide a broad overview of criminal justice issues that Indigenous people in Canada have faced historically and continue to face today. Both Indigenous and Canadian scholars situate current issues of justice for Indigenous peoples, broadly defined, within... Read more

Table of Contents


List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Foreword by The Honourable Murray Sinclair

Acknowledgements


Introduction: Kathryn M. Campbell

Part 1: Questions of Theory and Justice

Chapter 1: Justicia Canadiana. By Jean Teillet

Chapter 2: Settler Colonialism and the Criminalization of Indigenous People in Canada. By Adam J. Barker and Emma Battell Lowman

Chapter 3: Frail Legitimacies: Examining the Settler-Colonial Legal-Politics Underlying the Wet’suwet’en Crisis. By Jeremy Patzer

Chapter 4: A Strategy for Achieving Indigenous Justice: A Seven “Rs” Plan. By Irwin Cotler and Kathleen Mahoney

Part 2: Features of the Criminal Justice System

Chapter 5: A Commentary on First Nations Policing: By Chief Peacekeeper Dwayne Zacharie

Chapter 6: Swimming Upstream in the Criminal Justice System: The Role of the Bail System in the Over-representation of Indigenous Peoples in Canadian Correction Facilities. By Megan Mitchell and Chery Marie Webster

Chapter 7: Attempts at Reconciliation Through Criminal Law: Tracing the Historical Applications of the Gladue Principles. By Jacob Medvedev, Michael A. Crystal and Gilbert Terrance Jr.

Chapter 8: Criminal Justice Reform and the Mass Imprisonment of Indigenous People in Canada. By Jane B. Sprott, Cheryl Marie Webster and Anthony N. Doob

Chapter 9: Indigenous Women: Living in a State of Injustice: Reflections on the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry of Manitoba and the Continued Legacy of Injustice for Indigenous Women in Canada. By Aimée Craft

Part 3: In/Justice in Practice

Chapter 10: Family Matters: Home is the Heart of the Indigenous Prison Crisis. By Ryan Beardy

Chapter 11: Indigenous Identity and Correctional Programming: The Effects of a Contemporary Colonial Project. By Stephanie Wellman

Chapter 12: Leaving the Iron House: The Red Road out of Prison. By Danny Homer and Melissa Munn

Chapter 13: The Duty to Do Better: Trauma-Informed Lawyering. By Myrna Lynne McCallum

Chapter 14: Indigenous Peoples' Courts: Practitioners' Views from Eastern Ontario. By Neha Chugh and Anne-Marie McElroy

Appendix A: First Nations Policing in Canada

Appendix B: Estimating the Indigenous Imprisonment Rate

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Kathryn M. Campbell is a Full Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She holds a BA in Psychology (McGill), an MPhil in Criminology (Cantab), a PhD in Criminologie (Université de Montreal) and a BCL/LLB (McGill). Professor Campbell has long been interested in studying issues of social justice, including questions of equality and rights under the law, for various individuals and groups. Professor Campbell has published extensively in the areas of miscarriages of justice, young persons and criminal law and Indigenous justice issues.

Stephanie Wellman is Manitoba Métis from Treaty One Territory, now residing on the traditional unceded, unsurrendered Territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation. She holds an MA in Criminology from the University of Ottawa; her research focused on Indigenous over-incarceration in Canadian prisons and issues of identity. She is currently the Director of Social Development at the Assembly of First Nations.