Criminalizing the colonized: Ontario native women confront the criminal justice system, 1920-60.

Examines the roots of Aboriginal women's overincarceration in Ontario in the 20th-century, especially during and immediately following World War II. Records from the Mercer, the only Ontario Reformatory for Women; Material and cultural dislocations of colonialism; Gender and race paternalism of the...

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Publicado en:	Canadian Historical Review Vol. 80; no. 1; pp. 32 - 61
Autor principal:	Sangster, Joan
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	University of Toronto Press Mar1999
Materias:	Legal status of Indigenous peoples Legal status of women Criminal justice system Canada
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Sumario:	Examines the roots of Aboriginal women's overincarceration in Ontario in the 20th-century, especially during and immediately following World War II. Records from the Mercer, the only Ontario Reformatory for Women; Material and cultural dislocations of colonialism; Gender and race paternalism of the courts and prisons; Cultural gap in the notions of crime and punishment.