Bad law : rethinking justice for a postcolonial Canada /
Reilly, John, 1946-
Bad law : rethinking justice for a postcolonial Canada / John Reilly. - First edition. - [Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (241 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
The beginning -- Learning -- Getting to know the Stoneys -- Restorative justice -- The origins of processes -- The evil Cornwallis -- Milton Born With a Tooth -- The right thing -- Respect -- Paradigm change -- Crow Dog volume Spotted Tail -- Rupert Ross -- Punishment -- Deterrence -- Due process -- Sawbonna -- Rev. Dale Lang -- To forgive or not to forgive -- Anger, hatred, vengeance -- Advocacy vs. conversation -- Polarization -- Drug prohibitions -- Sexual offences -- One size fits all -- Shifting focus from judicial solutions to community solutions -- The TRC -- FAQ.
Building on his previous two books, "Bad Medicine" and "Bad Judgment," John Reilly acquaints the reader with the ironies and futilities of an approach to justice so adversarial and dysfunctional that it often increases crime rather than reducing it. He examines the radically different indigenous approach to wrongdoing, which is restorative rather than retributive, founded on the premise that people are basically good and wrongdoing is the aberration, not that humans are essentially evil and have to be deterred by horrendous punishments.
9781771603355
Law reform--Canada.
Indians of North America--Legal status, laws, etc.--Canada.
Indians of North America--Social conditions.--Canada
Sociological jurisprudence--Canada.
Criminal justice, Administration of--Canada.
Electronic Books.
KE429 / .B335 2019
Bad law : rethinking justice for a postcolonial Canada / John Reilly. - First edition. - [Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (241 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
The beginning -- Learning -- Getting to know the Stoneys -- Restorative justice -- The origins of processes -- The evil Cornwallis -- Milton Born With a Tooth -- The right thing -- Respect -- Paradigm change -- Crow Dog volume Spotted Tail -- Rupert Ross -- Punishment -- Deterrence -- Due process -- Sawbonna -- Rev. Dale Lang -- To forgive or not to forgive -- Anger, hatred, vengeance -- Advocacy vs. conversation -- Polarization -- Drug prohibitions -- Sexual offences -- One size fits all -- Shifting focus from judicial solutions to community solutions -- The TRC -- FAQ.
Building on his previous two books, "Bad Medicine" and "Bad Judgment," John Reilly acquaints the reader with the ironies and futilities of an approach to justice so adversarial and dysfunctional that it often increases crime rather than reducing it. He examines the radically different indigenous approach to wrongdoing, which is restorative rather than retributive, founded on the premise that people are basically good and wrongdoing is the aberration, not that humans are essentially evil and have to be deterred by horrendous punishments.
9781771603355
Law reform--Canada.
Indians of North America--Legal status, laws, etc.--Canada.
Indians of North America--Social conditions.--Canada
Sociological jurisprudence--Canada.
Criminal justice, Administration of--Canada.
Electronic Books.
KE429 / .B335 2019