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To right historical wrongs : race, gender, and sentencing in Canada / Carmela Murdocca.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murdocca, Carmela.
- Series:
- Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.), 1496-4953.
- Law and society series
- Law and Society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration--Canada.
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
- Prison sentences--Canada.
- Prison sentences.
- Canada--Race relations.
- Canada.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Vancouver : UBC Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Culture and reparative justice
- From incarceration to restoration
- Her aboriginal connections
- Racial injustice and righting historical wrongs
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Parts of this book were previously published in journals.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 5, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 0-7748-2497-2
- 0-7748-2499-9
- OCLC:
- 863054135
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