Research Catalog

Title

Moving toward justice : legal traditions and Aboriginal justice / edited by John D. Whyte.

Publication

Saskatoon : Purich Pub., c2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Whyte, John D.
• Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy.
• First Nations University of Canada

Description

288 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"The struggle to reform Canada's justice system is nothing short of a cry for justice itself, and the response to this cry is too slow and too narrow. The essays collected in Moving Toward Justice include analyses of the challenges of legal pluralism, restorative justice, gender and race in sentencing, notions of community, and reconciliation in Aboriginal justice. Part I of the book examines the legal and political context for Aboriginal justice, theories of law and the constitution, as well as theories of development and administration that compel much broader initiatives of Aboriginal self-government. Part II examines specific initiatives and the problems some of them have created. Justice reform is complex and controversial. The challenges increase when the context for reform includes the search for greater safety and security in Aboriginal communities, recognition of cultural integrity, and the need to promote inter-societal respect. This book aims to underscore the urgent need for Aboriginal justice reform, to suggest the outlines of the constitutional and administrative changes that will allow reform to occur, and to explore a series of specific issues that have arisen from reforms already made."--Pub. website.

Series Statement

Purich's aboriginal issues series

Uniform Title

Purich's Aboriginal issues series

Subject

• Native peoples > Legal status, laws, etc. > Canada
• Indigenous peoples > Legal status, laws, etc. > Canada > Congresses
• Justice, Administration of > Canada > Congresses
• Autochtones > Droit > Canada
• Justice > Administration > Canada

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• Proceedings of a conference held in Regina, Saskatchewan, Mar. 1-3, 2006, entitled "Moving Towards Justice : Legal Traditions and Aboriginal and Canadian Justice." The conference was organized by the Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy and the First Nations University of Canada.
• Published in association with the Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy, University of Regina.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The generative structure of Aboriginal rights / Brian Slattery -- Honouring the treaty acknowledgement of First Nations self-government : achieving justice through self-determination / Merrilee Rasmussen -- Looking ahead : a pragmatic outlook on Aboriginal self-rule / Martin Blanchard -- Reconciliation : legal conception(s) and faces of justice / Dwight G. Newman -- Striking a balance : the rights of Aboriginal peoples and the rule of law in Canada / Thomas Isaac -- Developmental and legal perspectives on Aboriginal justice administration / John D. Whyte -- Justice authorities in self-government agreements : the importance of conditions and mechanisms of implementation / Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox -- The criminal justice system and Aboriginal people / Margot Hurlbert and John McKenzie -- R. v. Gladue : sentencing and the gendered impacts of colonialism / Angela Cameron -- The impact of reporting requirements on restorative justice agencies : implications for self-determination / Barbara Tomporowski -- First Nations and the Charter of Rights / Bill Rafoss -- Indigenous and state justice systems in Kenya : toward a realization of justice / Winifred Kamau.

ISBN

• 9781895830330 (pbk.)
• 1895830338 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 191241153
• SCSB-10150921

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library