Indigenous Criminology Flashcards
Describe the challenges faced with alternative sentencing options for Indigenous offenders?
Not regularly used outside Indigenous courts.
What is the “indigenization” of the Justice System?
Introduces Indigenous principles into the structure of services and programs.
Name the three movements of the indigenization process?
- Hiring more Indigenous justice professionals
- Incorporate Indigenous justice processes within the Canadian system.
- Indigenous parallel systems with the focus on community accountability and restorative justice.
What are the three principles of Indigenous Criminology?
- Committed Objectivity
- Need to Give Back by “Speaking Truth and Power”
- Knowledge must come from within Indigenous peoples and communities.
What was the result of the Gladue Principles?
Judges are required to take into account systemic background factors before sentencing an Indigenous offender.
What does the Defecit Discourse ignore?
History of systemic racism and intergenerational trauma.
What does the Defecit Discourse refer to in relation to Indigenous peoples?
Blames the Indigenous for their problems.
How are Indigenous people viewed in the eyes of the Canadian criminal Justice system?
Overrepresented due to biases leading to being seen as less worthy victims.
Less likely to be involved in use of force incidents.
What did treaties preserve?
Indigenous sovereignty, culture, and right to self-government.
