To Right Historical Wrongs

Race, Gender, and Sentencing in Canada

Carmela Murdocca (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2014
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-2498-9 (ISBN)

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A bold questioning of culture-based reparative justice initiatives - the political culture that inspired them and their efficacy in an age in which historically marginalized people are disproportionately represented in Canadian prisons.

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.

Carmela Murdocca is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at York University and a member of York's graduate programs in sociology, socio-legal studies, and social and political thought.

Introduction

1 Culture and Reparative Justice

2 From Incarceration to Restoration

3 Her Aboriginal Connections

4 Racial Injustice and Righting Historical Wrongs

Conclusion

Notes; Bibliography; Index

Reihe/Serie	Law and Society
Verlagsort	Vancouver
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	420 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Familienrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Strafverfahrensrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Finanzierung
	Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Spezielle Betriebswirtschaftslehre ► Bankbetriebslehre
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	0-7748-2498-0 / 0774824980
ISBN-13	978-0-7748-2498-9 / 9780774824989
Zustand	Neuware