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The Community and Northern Justice
Based on materials presented at the third meeting of the Northern Justice Society in Whitehorse, Yukon in March, 1987. Considers issues related to community involvement in the response to justice issues in the North (Canada, Alaska and Greenland). Issues include community crime prevention programs, circuit court, Policy-community relations, legal aid and education.
Self-sufficiency in Northern Justice Issues
This collection of 25 papers based on materials presented in the workshops and short courses at the fifth meeting of the Northern Justice Society held in Sitka, Alaska in April 1991, includes papers on self-government, traditional justice, native peacekeeping, courtworkers, community legal service centres, tribal courts, family violence and suicide, in native communities in Alaska, northern Canada and Greenland.
Preventing and Responding to Northern Crime
Based on materials presented during the fourth meeting of the Northern Justice Society in Thompson, Manitoba in April, 1989. Papers cover issues, initiatives and outcomes surrounding crime prevention and the response to crime and social problems in Canada, Alaska and Greenland. Criminal justice practitioners, community representatives and Band members contribute ideas on such issues as community-based policing, crime-stopper programs, legal interpreters and young offenders.
Northern Justice
"One of the first Canadians to champion the legal and cultural cause of the North's indigenous peoples, William George Morrow, the senior partner in an eminent Edmonton law firm, seized the opportunity to go to the North in 1960 and act as a volunteer defence counsel for $10 a day. Morrow took on the quest for greater justice on behalf of the northern Natives long before this had become part of the national conscience. In these memoirs, he describes his daily struggles - first as a lawyer, and later as a judge - with the question of how an alien law should be applied to Aboriginal culture." "At the height of his career, Morrow was travelling more than 50,000 kilometres a year over bleak, sno...
Justice, Community and Civil Society
Over the last decade there has arisen considerable disquiet about the relationship between criminal justice and its publics. This has been expressed in a variety of different ways, ranging from a concern that state criminal justice has moved too far away from the concerns of ordinary people (become too distant, too out of touch, insufficiently reflective of different groups in society) to the belief that the police have been attending to the wrong priorities, that the state has failed to reduce crime, that people still feel a general sense of insecurity. Governments have sought to respond to these concerns throughout Europe and North America but the results have challenged people's deeply he...
Native North Americans
Contains references to a wide range of research, policy and program materials relating to native involvement with the criminal justice system in the United States, Canada and Greenland. Also, listing for comparative materials from Australia and Scandinavia. Related areas include health and welfare, drug and alcohol use, jurisdictional issues and education.
Justice in Transition
This book provides a unique account of the high-profile community-based restorative justice projects in the Republican and Loyalist communities that have emerged with the ending of the conflict in Northern Ireland. Unprecedented new partnerships between Republican communities and the Police Service of Northern Ireland have developed, and former IRA and UVF combatants and political ex prisoners have been amongst those involved. Community restorative justice projects have been central to these groundbreaking changes, acting as both facilitator and transformer. Based on an extensive range of interviews with key players in this process, many of them former combatants, and unique access to the di...
