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Book Federal Prisons Journal

Download or read book Federal Prisons Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Forum on Corrections Research

Download or read book Forum on Corrections Research written by and published by . This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reintegration of Indigenous Prisoners

Download or read book Reintegration of Indigenous Prisoners written by Frank Morgan and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The overrepresentation of Indigenous Australians in prison has long been one of the major challenges facing the criminal justice system. To date, there has been no national study of the extent to which Indigenous people reoffend and are returned to prison. Using data from all Australian jurisdictions, and covering 8,938 males incarcerated for violent offences and released from prison over a two-year period, this paper clearly shows that Indigenous offenders are readmitted to prison sooner and more frequently than non-Indigenous offenders. Analysis shows that Indigenous prisoners are nearly twice as likely to have been readmitted to prison within two years and more than twice as likely to return to prison for assault. Half of the Indigenous prisoners remained in prison until the expiry of their sentence, which makes post-release support particularly challenging. A key theme that emerged from stakeholder consultations was the need to improve support during transition back into the community through the involvement of family and community, and increased capacity to undertake throughcare, especially in remote settings. While there is a range of Indigenous-specific initiatives and programs in prisons and in the community, including those that target violent offending and substance abuse, an ongoing need is to increase participation in mainstream services and to include Indigenous cultural specificity without negatively impacting on program integrity, and to evaluate the outcomes of reform over time.

Book Final Report

    Book Details:
  • Author : Canada. Task Force on Aboriginal Peoples in Federal Corrections
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 124 pages

Download or read book Final Report written by Canada. Task Force on Aboriginal Peoples in Federal Corrections and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although aboriginal people comprise 2.5 per cent of Canada's population, they comprise approximately nine per cent of federally incarcerated inmates. This report discusses the requirement for aboriginal-specific approaches, and the correctional context. It includes a statistical profile of federal aboriginal offenders and their conditional release, and information on case decision making. It examines programs and services, and the aboriginal community. It contains a summary of recommendations.

Book The Challenge for Change

Download or read book The Challenge for Change written by Charlene Lafreniere and published by Canadian Centre Policy Alternatives. This book was released on 2005 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A commentary on : "Final report and recommendations" of the Manitoba Aboriginal Justice Implementation Commission. Report supports a goal of reducing the numbers of Aboriginal women involved in the criminal justice system by strengthening ties to their children, families and communities with a restorative justice approach based on a holistic approach to healing rather than simply building a new prison. Additional keywords : Indians, Native peoples, First Nations, incarceration, prisons, prison, healing lodges, law.

Book Canadian Corrections

    Book Details:
  • Author : Curt Taylor Griffiths
  • Publisher : Thomson Nelson
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780176224769
  • Pages : 504 pages

Download or read book Canadian Corrections written by Curt Taylor Griffiths and published by Thomson Nelson. This book was released on 2003 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadian Corrections offers a comprehensive introduction to correctional practices in Canada. This user-friendly text combines description, analysis of critical issues, current research and case students to teach students the inner-workings of the Canadian correction system. The second edition includes all current research findings and up-to-date statistical material as well as new information on trends in Canadian corrections, the challenges of probation in the 21st century and the privatization of corrections in Canada.

Book Examining Aboriginal Corrections in Canada

Download or read book Examining Aboriginal Corrections in Canada written by Carol Laprairie and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Imprisoning Our Sisters

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  • Author : Stephanie Hayman
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2006-07-11
  • ISBN : 0773582371
  • Pages : 436 pages

Download or read book Imprisoning Our Sisters written by Stephanie Hayman and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2006-07-11 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using extensive interviews and previously unexplored archival material, Hayman examines the work of the Task Force on Federally Sentenced Women and assesses the opening of the first three prisons. She questions the notion that prisons can simultaneously "heal" and punish, suggesting that the power of "the prison" inevitably triumphs over the good intentions of reformers.

Book A Framework for Sentencing  Corrections and Conditional Release

Download or read book A Framework for Sentencing Corrections and Conditional Release written by Canada. Solicitor General Canada and published by Gouvernement du Canada. This book was released on 1990 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses the central issues pertaining to sentencing, corrections and conditional release and sets general directions for the federal government to work on.

Book Enhancing the Role of Aboriginal Communities in Federal Corrections

Download or read book Enhancing the Role of Aboriginal Communities in Federal Corrections written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The laws that govern federal corrections include specific provisions that encourage the involvement of Aboriginal communities in the correctional process. Two sections of the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (CCRA) provide the opportunity for Aboriginal communities to become active partners in the care and custody of Aboriginal offenders and the provision of correctional services.

Book Punishment in Disguise

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  • Author : Kelly Hannah-Moffat
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2001-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780802082749
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Punishment in Disguise written by Kelly Hannah-Moffat and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at some current forms of penal governance in Canadian federal women's prisons and a suggestion that the prison system itself, given its primary functions of custody and punishment, is consistent in thwarting attempts at progressive reform.

Book Justice Reinvestment

Download or read book Justice Reinvestment written by David Brown and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Justice reinvestment was introduced as a response to mass incarceration and racial disparity in the United States in 2003. This book examines justice reinvestment from its origins, its potential as a mechanism for winding back imprisonment rates, and its portability to Australia, the United Kingdom and beyond. The authors analyze the principles and processes of justice reinvestment, including the early neighborhood focus on 'million dollar blocks'. They further scrutinize the claims of evidence-based and data-driven policy, which have been used in the practical implementation strategies featured in bipartisan legislative criminal justice system reforms. This book takes a comparative approach to justice reinvestment by examining the differences in political, legal and cultural contexts between the United States and Australia in particular. It argues for a community-driven approach, originating in vulnerable Indigenous communities with high imprisonment rates, as part of a more general movement for Indigenous democracy. While supporting a social justice approach, the book confronts significantly the problematic features of the politics of locality and community, the process of criminal justice policy transfer, and rationalist conceptions of policy. It will be essential reading for scholars, students and practitioners of criminal justice and criminal law.

Book Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada  Volume One  Summary

Download or read book Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Volume One Summary written by The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the Final Report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its six-year investigation of the residential school system for Aboriginal youth and the legacy of these schools. This report, the summary volume, includes the history of residential schools, the legacy of that school system, and the full text of the Commission's 94 recommendations for action to address that legacy. This report lays bare a part of Canada's history that until recently was little-known to most non-Aboriginal Canadians. The Commission discusses the logic of the colonization of Canada's territories, and why and how policy and practice developed to end the existence of distinct societies of Aboriginal peoples. Using brief excerpts from the powerful testimony heard from Survivors, this report documents the residential school system which forced children into institutions where they were forbidden to speak their language, required to discard their clothing in favour of institutional wear, given inadequate food, housed in inferior and fire-prone buildings, required to work when they should have been studying, and subjected to emotional, psychological and often physical abuse. In this setting, cruel punishments were all too common, as was sexual abuse. More than 30,000 Survivors have been compensated financially by the Government of Canada for their experiences in residential schools, but the legacy of this experience is ongoing today. This report explains the links to high rates of Aboriginal children being taken from their families, abuse of drugs and alcohol, and high rates of suicide. The report documents the drastic decline in the presence of Aboriginal languages, even as Survivors and others work to maintain their distinctive cultures, traditions, and governance. The report offers 94 calls to action on the part of governments, churches, public institutions and non-Aboriginal Canadians as a path to meaningful reconciliation of Canada today with Aboriginal citizens. Even though the historical experience of residential schools constituted an act of cultural genocide by Canadian government authorities, the United Nation's declaration of the rights of aboriginal peoples and the specific recommendations of the Commission offer a path to move from apology for these events to true reconciliation that can be embraced by all Canadians.

Book Canada s Residential Schools  The Legacy

Download or read book Canada s Residential Schools The Legacy written by Commission de vérité et réconciliation du Canada and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country. Government officials and missionaries agreed that in order to “civilize and Christianize” Aboriginal children, it was necessary to separate them from their parents and their home communities. For children, life in these schools was lonely and alien. Discipline was harsh, and daily life was highly regimented. Aboriginal languages and cultures were denigrated and suppressed. Education and technical training too often gave way to the drudgery of doing the chores necessary to make the schools self-sustaining. Child neglect was institutionalized, and the lack of supervision created situations where students were prey to sexual and physical abusers. Legal action by the schools’ former students led to the creation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada in 2008. The product of over six years of research, the Commission’s final report outlines the history and legacy of the schools, and charts a pathway towards reconciliation. Canada’s Residential Schools: The Legacy describes what Canada must do to overcome the schools’ tragic legacy and move towards reconciliation with the country’s first peoples. For over 125 years Aboriginal children suffered abuse and neglect in residential schools run by the Canadian government and by churches. They were taken from their families and communities and confined in large, frightening institutions where they were cut off from their culture and punished for speaking their own language. Infectious diseases claimed the lives of many students and those who survived lived in harsh and alienating conditions. There was little compassion and little education in most of Canada’s residential schools. Although Canada has formally apologized for the residential school system and has compensated its Survivors, the damaging legacy of the schools continues to this day. This volume examines the long shadow that the residential schools have cast over the lives of Aboriginal Canadians who are more likely to live in poverty, more likely to be in ill health and die sooner, more likely to have their children taken from them, and more likely to be imprisoned than other Canadians. The disappearance of many Indigenous languages and the erosion of cultural traditions and languages also have their roots in residential schools.