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Colonization In Canada

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Historically, British colonization played a detrimental effect on the indigenous community. Through the use of residential schools and assimilation, the Canadian government endeavored in removing the aboriginal culture out of indigenous youth, adversely causing trauma, abuse, and social problems among the Indigenous community. (Brenda Elias, Javier Mignone, Madelyn Hall, Say, P. Hong, Lyna Hart, and Jitender Sareen, 2012). Through the Canadian justice system's use of the NWMP (North-West Mounted Police), they attempted to establish a colonial policing power to govern the Indigenous community to control and punish labelled “dysfunctional” behavior among the Indigenous people (Amanda Nettelbeck and Russell Smandych, 2010).
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Corrado, Sarah Kuehn and Irina Margaritescu 2014). Additionally, studies also show that western Canadian provinces have a much greater rate of indigenous incarceration compared to the eastern provinces, such that, there is evident over-representation in the western end of Canada. One factor for the increased over-representation of Aboriginal offenders in the criminal justice system may be due to “impoverished background, unstable familial environment, substance use, and negative peer associations” (Annie K Yessine & James Bonta, 2009) Another factor accounting for over-representation of aboriginal delinquents may be racial profiling, a study conducted by Willaim Chambliss (1973) concluded that authorities have a systematic observation of the visual delinquents from a lower Socio-economic status compared to delinquents of a higher economic status, which may account for higher rates of punishable crime of lower SES delinquents …show more content…

A statistical study shows that Canada’s incarceration rate “vary substantially across provinces” as in the western Provinces (Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Alberta), the rate is about 30 aboriginals per 100,000 people compared to the eastern province which have a rate of 10 aboriginals per 100,000. Such that, western provinces have about 2 to 3 times higher rate of aboriginal incarceration than eastern provinces (Roland Neil &Jason T. Carmichael,

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