Bad law : rethinking justice for a postcolonial Canada / John Reilly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reilly, John

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law reform--Canada.

Law reform.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : RMB, [2019]

Summary:

Building on his previous two books, "Bad Medicine" and "Bad Judgment," John Reilly acquaints the reader with the ironies and futilities of an approach to justice so adversarial and dysfunctional that it often increases crime rather than reducing it. He examines the radically different indigenous approach to wrongdoing, which is restorative rather than retributive, founded on the premise that people are basically good and wrongdoing is the aberration, not that humans are essentially evil and have to be deterred by horrendous punishments.

Contents:

The beginning

Learning

Getting to know the Stoneys

Restorative justice

The origins of processes

The evil Cornwallis

Milton Born With a Tooth

The right thing

Respect

Paradigm change

Crow Dog v. Spotted Tail

Rupert Ross

Punishment

Deterrence

Due process

Sawbonna

Rev. Dale Lang

To forgive or not to forgive

Anger, hatred, vengeance

Advocacy vs. conversation

Polarization

Drug prohibitions

Sexual offences

One size fits all

Shifting focus from judicial solutions to community solutions

The TRC

FAQ.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-77160-335-6