To Right Historical Wrongs

Race, Gender, and Sentencing in Canada

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ID19928595
AuthorsCarmela Murdocca (corresponding author)
Year2013
Publication date2013-10-15
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueTo Right Historical Wrongs (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of British Columbia Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.59962/9780774824996
OpenAlexW4385744630
Open LibraryOL48698073M
ISBN9780774824996
LanguageEN
Citations received14

Following World War II, liberal nation-states sought to address injustices of the past. In keeping with trends in other countries, Canada's government began to consider its own implication in various past wrongs, and in the late twentieth century it began to implement reparative justice initiatives for historically marginalized people. Yet despite this shift, there are more Indigenous and racialized people in Canadian prisons now than at any other time in history. In To Right Historical Wrongs, Carmela Murdocca brings together the paradigm of reparative justice and the study of incarceration to examine this disconnect between the political motivations for amending historical injustices and the vastly disproportionate reality of the justice system a troubling reality that is often ignored. Drawing on detailed examination of legal cases, parliamentary debates, government reports, media commentary, and community sources, Murdocca presents a new perspective on discussions of culture-based sentencing in an age of both mass incarceration and historical amendment

Genealogy · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies · Administration of Criminal justice · canada · Discrimination in criminal justice administration · Indigenous peoples · Indigenous peoples, legal status, laws, etc · Legal status, laws · Legal status, laws, etc · Minorities · Minorities, legal status, laws, etc · Native peoples · Prison sentences · Race discrimination · race relations · Reparations for historical injustices

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