Join Charlotte and Maria Dugas, Assistant Professor at the Schulich School of Law, as they discuss her recent paper in the DLJ, “Committing to Justice: The Case for Impact of Race and Culture Assessments in Sentencing African Canadian Offenders”
Maria explains the factors that can be included in Impact of Race and Culture Assessments and why these reports should be considered by judges when making sentencing decisions for African Canadian offenders.
Resources mentioned:
– Maria’s paper: https://digitalcommons.schulichlaw.dal.ca/dlj/vol43/iss1/12/
– African Nova Scotian Decade for People of African Descent Coalition: https://www.ansdpad.ca/justice-working-group/
– ON Sentencing and Parole Project: https://sentencingproject.ca/
– Robyn Maynard, Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
– Black Cultural Centre: http://web1.bccnsweb.com/
– Wortley Report: https://humanrights.novascotia.ca/sites/default/files/editor-uploads/halifax_street_checks_report_march_2019_0.pdf
– J Michael MacDonald & Jennifer Taylor, “Independent Legal Opinion on Street Checks” (October 2019), online (pdf): https://humanrights.novascotia.ca/sites/default/files/editor-uploads/independent_legal_opinion_on_street_checks.pdf
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