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Nunavut Law Program Research Guide: Indigenous Criminal Law
Selected Print Books in the NLP classroom
Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit : What Inuit Have Always Known to be True
Indigenous People and the Criminal Justice System: A Practitioner's Handbook
Peace and Good Order: The Case for Indigenous Justice in Canada by Harold R. Johnson
Clifford: A Memoir, A Fiction, A Fantasy, A Thought Experiment by Harold R. Johnson
Policing Indigenous Movements Dissent and the Security State by Andrew Crosby and Jeffrey Monaghan
Returning to the teachings: exploring aboriginal justice by Rupert Ross
Law's Indigenous Ethics by John Borrows
Implicating the System: Judicial Discourses in the Sentencing of Indigenous Women by Elspeth Kaiser-Derrick
Bad medicine: A Judge's Struggle for Justice in a First Nations Community by John Reilly
Bad Law: Rethinking Justice for a Postcolonial Canada by John Reilly
Racialized policing: Aboriginal People's Encounters with the Police by Elizabeth Comack
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People by Thomas King
Putting Trials on Trial
Resurgence and Reconciliation: Responsibilities for Shared Futures by John Borrows, Jim Tully & Michael Asch, eds.
At the End of the World: A True Story of Murder in the Arctic by Lawrence Millman
Inuit Laws: Tirigusuusiit, Piqujait, and Maligait
Thou Shalt Do No Murder: Inuit, Injustice, and the Canadian Arctic
Inuit Worldviews: an Introduction
Selected e-Books
Strange Things Done by Ken S. Coates & William R. Morrison
See Chapter 6: “To Make These Tribes Understand”: The Trial of Alikomiak and Tatamigana
Indigenous Men and Masculinities
See Chapter 11: Imprisonment and Indigenous Masculinity: Contesting Hegemonic Masculinity in a Toxic Environment
More book recommendations
Public Policy Documents
Examples of publications available in this collection:
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Guilty Pleas Among Indigenous People in Canada 'The overrepresentation of Indigenous people in custody is a serious challenge that confronts Canada’s justice system. One factor that may contribute to this overrepresentation is a higher rate of guilty pleas among Indigenous people. The Research and Statistics Division at the Department of Justice Canada interviewed justice system professionals to explore the circumstances under which Indigenous people plead guilty'--Executive summary, p. 5.
Statistics
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Statistics Canada, Juristat seriesThis publication provides in-depth analysis and detailed statistics on a variety of topics and issues related to justice and public safety. Topics include crime, victimization, homicide, civil, family and criminal courts, and correctional services. Issues related to community safety, and perceptions of safety are also covered. The publication is intended for those with an interest in Canada's justice and public safety systems as well as those who plan, establish, administer and evaluate programs and projects related to justice and public safety.
Featured Titles via WestlawNext Canada (personal password required - contact NLP Law Librarian for assistance)
Featured e-Looseleafs through USask Library
Native Law by Jack Woodward
See Chapter 17: Offences, Criminal Law, Sentencing and Young Offenders
Recommended Serials
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Criminal Law QuarterlyFrom the publisher: CLQ "features a section devoted exclusively to Criminal Appeals in the Supreme Court of Canada, taking into account recent judgments and appeals inscribed for hearing or reserved, and notices of appeal filed, or leave granted.
It also includes: editorial comments on current issues, well-researched and written scholarly articles, analysis of key decisions, and book reviews"
Access to CLQ via Hein Online (full text from 1958-2016) * 3 year embargo *
Acess to CLQ via WestlawNext Canada (full text from 1959 - present)
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Etudes inuit : Inuit studies.
"'Etudes/Inuit/Studies', a biannual scholarly journal, has been published since 1977. The Journal is devoted to the study of Inuit societies, either traditional or contemporary, in the general perspective of social sciences and humanities (ethnology, politics, archaeology, linguistics, history, etc.). The Journal has grown to become a major crossroad of information on northern endeavours."
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Criminal ReportsAccess via WestlawNext Canada. Personal password required. Contact the Librarian, Nunavut Law Program for assistance.
Summary from publisher: Reporter includes "judgments covering criminal offences, procedures and evidence from every court level. Includes annotations and articles by leading authorities in the field."
Recommended e-Book collections at USask Library
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Scholars Portal600,000+ books from the world's leading publishers. Scholars Portal is a service available only to faculty and students at Canadian universities and colleges. We are funded by your library to house content licensed by your library.
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eBook Central
A platform hosting a growing multidisciplinary collection of electronic books from a range of publishers. This resource used to be ebrary.
Access Note: To access added functionality, you must self-register (free) and sign-in.
Access Note: To download a book, Adobe Digital Editions software is required. To read off-line, download the Bluefire app for iOS or Android.
Interdisciplinary Databases
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Academic Search Complete (ASC)
A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database indexing journals, including thousands of peer-reviewed journals. Abstracts and indexes are also included for monographs, conference proceedings, and reports. -
Arctic & Antarctic Regions
A collection of international polar databases covering research from multiple disciplines on cold regions anywhere, from temperate regions with cold winters to the Himalayas of Tibet. -
Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database (CBCA) CBCA subsets (Business, Current Events, Education, and Reference) cover current events, culture, business, education, history, language, government etc. Sources include scholarly journals, magazines, dissertations, books, newspapers, news services and magazines.
Formerly CBCA Complete: Canadian Business & Current Affairs.
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Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full TextBibliographic and full text access to essential content for criminal justice and criminology. Hundreds of journals from around the world are indexed and available in full text.
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Sociological AbstractsAn abstracting and indexing bibliographic database for international literature in sociology, with content from journals, conference papers, and books. Major areas of coverage include radical sociology, substance abuse and addiction, economic development, and mass phenomena and political interactions.
Australia and New Zealand
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Law journals via AustLII"The Australasian Legal Scholarship Library aims to provide a comprehensive search facility for all academic law journals in Australia and New Zealand. Currently, the search facility ... allows searches over 150 law journals and legal scholarship databases."
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Indigenous Courts, Self-Determination and Criminal Justice by In New Zealand, as well as in Australia, Canada and other comparable jurisdictions, Indigenous peoples comprise a significantly disproportionate percentage of the prison population. For example, Maori, who comprise 15% of New Zealand's population, make up 50% of its prisoners. For Maori women, the figure is 60%. These statistics have, moreover, remained more or less the same for at least the past thirty years. With New Zealand as its focus, this book explores how the fact that Indigenous peoples are more likely than any other ethnic group to be apprehended, arrested, prosecuted, convicted and incarcerated, might be alleviated. Taking seriously the rights to culture and to self-determination contained in the Treaty of Waitangi, in many comparable jurisdictions (including Australia, Canada, the United States of America), and also in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the book make the case for an Indigenous court founded on Indigenous conceptions of proper conduct, punishment, and behavior. More specifically, the book draws on contemporary notions of 'therapeutic jurisprudence' and 'restorative justice' in order to argue that such a court would offer an effective way to ameliorate the disproportionate incarceration of Indigenous peoples.Publication Date: 2018 -
Journal Article: "Community-based sanctioning of offenders: A new solution for Indigenous justice?" byPublication Date: (2005) 30:1 AltLawJl 24
Search for more journal articles via the following databases:
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LegalTrac Indexes titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals and full text law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles.
