Canada: When Two Worlds Collide: Aboriginal Risk Management In Canadian Corrections

Canada: When Two Worlds Collide: Aboriginal Risk Management In Canadian Corrections Joane Martel, Renée Brassard, and Mylène Jaccoud, 2011   In the last two decades, Indigenous lobbies have pointed a harsh finger at the endemic overrepresentation of Indigenous individuals in prisons in Canada and abroad. In reaction to such a condemnatory critique, correctional authorities in Canada have sought to ‘aboriginalize’ prisons. This paper addresses some of the prison's adaptation schemes to shed...

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