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Author Reilly, John, 1946- author.

Title Bad law : rethinking justice for a postcolonial Canada / John Reilly
Edition First edition
Published [Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books, [2019]
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Description 1 online resource (241 pages)
Contents 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 v. 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Law reform -- Canada
Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Canada
Indians of North America -- Canada -- Social conditions
Sociological jurisprudence -- Canada
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Canada.
Criminal justice, Administration of
Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Indians of North America -- Social conditions
Law reform
Sociological jurisprudence
Canada
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781771603355
1771603356