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Understanding the Overrepresentation of Indigenous People


Addressing the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in the ...

Addressing the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in the justice system in Nunatsiavut · assists Indigenous peoples to assume greater ...

Indigenous Children & Families - Child Trends

Research has found that colonization leads to historical, intergenerational, and cultural trauma in Indigenous people through the buildup of ...

Indigenous Peoples | United Nations

Often, indigenous peoples are excluded or poorly represented in decision-making processes on matters that directly affect them and are not consulted about ...

2.11 Contact with the criminal justice system - AIHW Indigenous HPF

In 2021–22, First Nations young people were 17 times as likely as non-Indigenous young people to be under community-based supervision on an average day (93.9 ...

Reducing the number of Indigenous children in care

affirms the rights of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples to exercise jurisdiction over child and family services ... The information is hard to understand.

Supporting Indigenous people with disability in contact with the ...

It is often reported that, in Indigenous societies, there is no word, concept or understanding of 'disability' (Gilroy et al. Citation2013:44; ...

Justice - Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada

... overrepresentation of Indigenous people in federal custody. What's ... understanding between Indigenous and non-Indigenous groups.

Over-Incarceration of Native Americans: Roots, Inequities, and ...

The report, commissioned as part of the Safety and Justice Challenge (SJC), shows that in states with higher Native populations, incarceration ...

UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Indigenous peoples and individuals are free and equal to all other peoples and individuals and have the right to be free from any kind of discrimination, in the ...

Racism, Discrimination and the Over-Representation of Indigenous ...

Some authors have argued that the primary cause of over-representation is widespread criminality among Indigenous peoples, rather than what is ...

Understanding the impact of colonialism | Indigenous Criminology

Commonalities in the experiences of Indigenous peoples in the British settler colonial societies include the loss of land, social, economic and political ...

Aboriginal Peoples and the Criminal Justice System

This suggests that overrepresentation will continue to be a problem for the years to come. In order to address this problem, it is first necessary to understand ...

8 Key Issues for Indigenous Peoples in Canada

... understand Indigenous history, culture and how the Indian Act affects Indigenous Peoples today. ... this over-representation is largely the result of ...

Indigenous peoples and the Canadian criminal justice system

Explanations for this overrepresentation include historical injustices – and the contemporary outcomes which are results of that history – faced by Indigenous ...

Profile of First Nations people - Australian Institute of Health and ...

4.4% identified as both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ABS 2022a). About First Nations populations estimates. The ABS produces Estimated ...

View of Reforming Indigenous policing: Understanding the context ...

Scholars in these four nations have identified the over-representation of Indigenous peoples in their justice systems, from arrests to incarceration, and ...

UNDERSTANDING THE OVER-REPRESENTATION OF BLACK ...

The criminalization of Black communities with mental health concerns hinders people seeking ... Customary Care: A model of Indigenous child ...

Overincarceration of Indigenous people: a health crisis - CMAJ

The overincarceration of Indigenous people leads to an inequitable distribution of the health harms of incarceration, as well as an enormous ...

Aboriginal over-representation in the justice system

The over-representation of Aboriginal people in the criminal justice system is a complex and enduring issue. It remains high, and the conditions ...

Contributions of Indigenous Knowledge to ecological and ...

Indigenous ways of knowing can shape and detail predictions not considered by science, a reality supported by the fact that Indigenous peoples ...