1. When Two Worlds Collide.
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MARTEL, JOANE, BRASSARD, RENÉE, and JACCOUD, MYLÈNE
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INDIGENOUS peoples ,IMPRISONMENT ,CRIME ,CRIMINOLOGY - Abstract
In the last two decades, Indigenous lobbies have pointed a harsh finger at the endemic overrepresentation of Indigenous individuals in prisons in Canada and abroad. In reaction to such a condemnatory critique, correctional authorities in Canada have sought to ‘aboriginalize’ prisons. This paper addresses some of the prison's adaptation schemes to shed light on three contradictory logics of risk-based management: (1) high-risk aboriginal offenders have little access to risk-reducing programmes; (2) aboriginality undergoes an ontological mutation that occurs during the process of risk assessment; and (3) aboriginal correctional staff play a contradictory role in the (re)production of ‘aboriginal risk’. To what extent, then, does the aboriginalization of prisons constitute a valuable transformation? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2011
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