Bridging the cultural divide

Canada.Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. (Added Author).

Summary: It is rare today to read a newspaper, listen to the radio or watch television without being confronted with issues of crime and punishment, whether in news reports, documentaries or dramatizations. However, the criminal justice system and its effects on the aboriginal people of Canada reveal themselves in places far removed from the glare of television camers and reporters' microphones. For aboriginal people the criminal justice system is not the stuff of drama, real or imagined, but a system in which they, more than any other Canadians, are more likely to become involved, both as victims of crimes and as offenders. The over-representation of aboriginal people in federal, provincial and territorial court systems and prisons casts a long shadow over Canada's claim to be a just society.

Record details

ISBN: 9780660162836
ISBN: 0660162830
Physical Description: print
315 p ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Ottawa, ON : Canada Communication Group, 1996.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Issued also in French, under title: Par-dela les divisions culturelles : un rapport sur les autochtones et la justice penale au Canada. A report on Aboriginal people and criminal justice in Canada.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Aboriginal concepts of law and justice: the historical realities -- Current realities -- Current aboriginal justice initiatives -- Creating conceptual and constitutional space for aboriginal justice systems -- Reforming the existing justice system -- Summary of major findings, conclusions and recommendations.
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note:	Donation (copy 2 only) ; 2005/05.