Indigenous peoples in Canada are significantly overrepresented in the Canadian justice system. They make up approximately 30 per cent of all incarcerated...

overcriminalization, mass incarceration, and recidivism. Criminal justice reform can take place at any point where the criminal justice system intervenes in citizens’...

Indigenous overrepresentation in the criminal justice system as "injustice personified." It noted that this over-representation of Indigenous peoples...

The Canadian Indian residential school system was a network of boarding schools for Indigenous peoples. The network was funded by the Canadian government's...

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Indigenous Relatives (MMIR) or Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) is a human rights crisis of violence against Indigenous women in Canada and...

and Vancouver. Indigenous peoples have continuously inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French...

Empire), the French civil law system (inherited from its French Empire past), and Indigenous law systems developed by the various Indigenous Nations. The Constitution...

The Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA; French: Loi sur le système de justice pénale pour les adolescents) is a Canadian statute, which came into effect...

Denial of genocides of Indigenous peoples consists of a claim that has denied any of the multiple genocides and atrocity crimes, which have been committed...

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2008, with the purpose of documenting the history and lasting impacts of the Canadian Indian residential school system on Indigenous students and their families...

between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people has been tainted with suspicion that the running of the criminal justice system was against Indigenous Australians...

to help reduce the rate of Indigenous people entering the justice system. Section 718.2(e) of the criminal code is defined within the “Other sentencing...

35 [of the Canadian Constitution] and recognizing it as a full box of rights for Indigenous Peoples in Canada." In July 2016, Canadian Justice Minister...

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Population figures for the Indigenous peoples of the Americas prior to European colonization have been difficult to establish. By the end of the 20th century,...

by the criminal justice system, with nearly two million people incarcerated in state or federal prisons and local jails. The United States has the largest...

to harm, transformative justice imagines and puts into practice alternatives to the formal, state-based criminal justice system. As defined by American...

programming, and fostering alienation from the justice system by Indigenous people. These reports would lead the federal government to create the First Nations...

Stereotypes of Indigenous peoples of Canada and the United States of America include many ethnic stereotypes found worldwide which include historical misrepresentations...

within the criminal and juvenile justice systems, schools, social services and communities. Rather than privileging the law, professionals and the state...

Indigenous peoples once comprised an estimated 2,000 tribes and nations inhabiting what is now the country of Brazil, before European contact around 1500...

many Canadians. Indigenous peoples were removed from their traditional lands to make way for the CPR, including approximately 5,000 Indigenous people who...

interacted with. Indigenous peoples have had agency in their response to colonialism. They have employed armed resistance, diplomacy, and legal procedures...

The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls was a Canadian public inquiry from 2016 to 2019 that studied the Missing and...

incarcerated Indigenous peoples doubled in the period from 2005 to 2015. Indigenous women are more overrepresented in the Canadian federal correctional system than...

in the United States criminal justice system refers to the unique experiences and disparities in the United States in regard to the policing and prosecuting...

overrepresented and receive harsher sentences in the criminal justice system, and experience severe disparities in health and healthcare. Racism, oppression, and discrimination...