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Sentencing Indigenous Offenders
From Gladue to the Present and Beyond
From: Sentencing in Canada
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Chapter 12 focusses on the issues surrounding the sentencing of Indigenous persons in Canada, focussing primarily on the impact of the Gladue and Ipeelee Supreme Court decisions.
Contributors
Kent Roach
Kent Roach, CM, FRSC, holds the Prichard-Wilson Chair in Law and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. He is the author of fourteen books, including Criminal Law and, with Robert J Sharpe, The Charter of Rights and Freedom in Irwin Law’s Essentials of Canadian Law series. Acting pro bono, he represented Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto in R v Gladue and R v Wells, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association in the sentence appeal in R v Latimer, and the BC Civil Liberties Association in R v Ipeelee.
Jonathan Rudin
Jonathan Rudin received his LLB and LLM from Osgoode Hall Law School. In 1990, he was hired to establish Aboriginal Legal Services (ALS) and has been with ALS ever since. Rudin has appeared before all levels of court, including the Supreme Court of Canada, where he represented ALS in R v Ipeelee (and other cases). His book, Indigenous People and the Criminal Justice System, published by Emond in 2018, won the Walter Owen Book Prize from the Canadian Foundation for Legal Research. He teaches on a part-time basis at York University. Beyond these legal activities, he plays the mandolin and sings with Gordon’s Acoustic Living Room, a group that performs regularly in Toronto and has several videos on YouTube.
