Justice and northern families : in crisis - in healing - in control

Record details

ISBN: 0864911440
Physical Description: print
vi, 323 p. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: [Burnaby, B.C.] : Northern Justice Society : Simon Fraser University, c1994.

General Note:	"Based on materials from and presented in the workshops and short courses at the sixth meeting of the Northern Justice Society held in Kenora, Ontario, June, 1993" --T.p. verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	What is circle sentencing? How does it work? -- Making it work -- Sentencing circles: an adaption in Saskatchewan -- Justice committees as vehicles to justice self-determination -- Tribal justice at Onion Lake First Nation -- Inuit justice task force -- Traditional healing -- The role of elders in Aboriginal communities -- Aboriginal control of child and family services -- Hollow Water sexual abuse team approach -- Child abuse prevention programs -- Conflict resolution -- Victim/witness assistance programs in Kenora and Yellowknife -- Policing intervention into violence among Aboriginal peoples -- The Ontario First Nations Police Commission -- Solvent and inhalant abuse in First Nations of Ontario and Alaska -- The potential of community-based research for legal reform -- Responses to crime in northern communities -- Community support team for young offenders -- Culture and recreation programs as crime prevention -- Aboriginal students and law school -- Aboriginal women and self-government -- List of resource people.