Aboriginals and the youth criminal justice system

ABORIGINALS AND THE YOUTH CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM

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Racial profiling in the criminal justice and law enforcement agencies has remained a major issue . These are two departments that are riddled with claims of discriminative practices that are skewed to the disfavor of a certain minority group . The United States justice department has been faced with a myriad of criticism over the perceived systemic discrimination against the minority groups especially the Latinos and the African Americans . Whether this criticism is justified remains a major

scholarly issue . In Canada , the justice and the law enforcement departments too have received immense criticism over the years over the disproportionate arrests and incarceration of the aboriginal people Indeed a critical look at the rates of arrests and incarceration reveals that the figures are skewed against the aboriginals and more so towards the aboriginal youths compared to the rest of the population

For the past one decade , extensive reforms have been carried out in the justice sector . Most of these reforms have been focusing on decreased imprisonment for the non- serious crimes and meting out long sentences for the violent criminal offenders . The key intention behind these reforms was to trim down on the rate of incarceration of the aboriginal people . A critical look however at these reforms indicates that they have achieved little . The rate of remand incarceration has soared and the reforms are seen as having a discriminatory impact as it has lead to increased arrests and incarceration of aboriginal...