2020
DOI: 10.1111/hojo.12381
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‘Indians are the Majority of the Prisoners’? Historical Variations in Incarceration Rates for Indigenous Women and Men in British Columbia

Abstract: Indigenous people have experienced relatively high incarceration rates in British Columbia, as elsewhere in North America, since the 1940s. Archival prison records, however, show that the incidence of Indigenous incarceration was lower than for other people before 1910. This evidence implies the crucial period for increasing incarceration of Indigenous peoples in British Columbias was from 1910 to 1940. The pattern for Indigenous women differed from that of men. Large numbers of Indigenous women were imprisone… Show more

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“…This assimilative function of criminal justice systems was most evident in the increased arrest and incarceration of Indigenous women. While datasets for this period are scarce, scholars have been able to compile statistics from specific correctional institutions which all point to the post-war period as the beginning of the long trend in overincarcerating Indigenous women (Inwood and Roberts, 2020; Roberts and Reid, 2017; Sangster, 1999). Across the board, the primary charges laid against these women were public order and morality offences including those related to liquor, sex, and vagrancy.…”
Section: Post-war Liberal Humanitarianism Pluralism and The ‘Rehabilitative’ Model Of Correctionsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This assimilative function of criminal justice systems was most evident in the increased arrest and incarceration of Indigenous women. While datasets for this period are scarce, scholars have been able to compile statistics from specific correctional institutions which all point to the post-war period as the beginning of the long trend in overincarcerating Indigenous women (Inwood and Roberts, 2020; Roberts and Reid, 2017; Sangster, 1999). Across the board, the primary charges laid against these women were public order and morality offences including those related to liquor, sex, and vagrancy.…”
Section: Post-war Liberal Humanitarianism Pluralism and The ‘Rehabilitative’ Model Of Correctionsmentioning
confidence: 99%