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SPECIAL CLASSES OF OFFENDERS – We can add “black offenders” as another special class of offenders.

Posted bywpengine 26 July 2019

‘When it comes to black people, the sentencing seems to be consistently void of any consideration of that additional source of disadvantage that they face’

Source: Ontario case could set special rules for sentencing black offenders, similar to Gladue for Indigenous people

Posted bywpengine26 July 2019Posted inUncategorized

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INDIGENOUS WOMEN VICTIMS – are going to be a special class of victim. Offences against them will bring a harsher sentence. Justice Burstein’s granting a conditional discharge for impaired driving to an indigenous woman is entirely consistent with this policy. But it seems inconsistent with the Gladue principles applicable to victimized indigenous men who already suffer higher rates of incarceration.
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