Open AccessA Need for Change: Cross-Cultural Sensitization of Lawyers
Author(s) -
Troy Chalifoux
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
alberta law review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1925-8356
pISSN - 0002-4821
DOI - 10.29173/alr1160
Subject(s) - criminal justice , economic justice , representation (politics) , value (mathematics) , criminology , sociology , connection (principal bundle) , law , political science , engineering , politics , structural engineering , machine learning , computer science
In this article, the author reveals a connection between systemic discrimination in the Canadian criminal justice system and the disproportionate representation of Aboriginal people in the system. The injustices faced by Aboriginals are partially attributed to the one-dimensional value system (that of the British Crown) on which the Canadian justice system is based. There is seen a fundamental conflict between the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal concepts of justice