Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice: The Gerald Stanley and Colten Boushie Case by Roach, Kent
Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice: The Gerald Stanley and Colten Boushie Case by Roach, Kent

Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice: The Gerald Stanley and Colten Boushie Case

In August 2016 Colten Boushie, a twenty-two-year-old Cree man from Red Pheasant First Nation, was fatally shot...
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Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice: The Gerald Stanley and Colten Boushie Case by Roach, Kent

Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice: The Gerald Stanley and Colten Boushie Case

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Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice: The Gerald Stanley and Colten Boushie Case by Roach, Kent

Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice: The Gerald Stanley and Colten Boushie Case

BD$63.04
Author: Kent Roach
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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In August 2016 Colten Boushie, a twenty-two-year-old Cree man from Red Pheasant First Nation, was fatally shot on a Saskatchewan farm by white farmer Gerald Stanley. In a trial that bitterly divided Canadians, Stanley was acquitted of both murder and manslaughter by a jury in Battleford with no visible Indigenous representation. In Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice Kent Roach critically reconstructs the Gerald Stanley/Colten Boushie case to examine how it may be a miscarriage of justice. Roach provides historical, legal, political, and sociological background to the case including misunderstandings over crime when Treaty 6 was negotiated, the 1885 hanging of eight Indigenous men at Fort Battleford, the role of the RCMP, prior litigation over Indigenous underrepresentation on juries, and the racially charged debate about defence of property, self-defence, guns, and rural crime. Drawing on both trial transcripts and research on miscarriages of justice, Roach looks at jury selection, the controversial "hang fire" defence, how the credibility and beliefs of Indigenous witnesses were challenged on the stand, and Gerald Stanley's implicit appeals to self-defence and defence of property, as well as the decision not to appeal the acquittal. Concluding his study, Roach asks whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's controversial call to "do better" is possible, given similar cases since Stanley's, the difficulty of reforming the jury or the RCMP, and the combination of Indigenous underrepresentation on juries and overrepresentation among those victimized and accused of crimes. Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice is a searing account of one case that provides valuable insight into criminal justice, racism, and the treatment of Indigenous peoples in Canada.

Author: Kent Roach
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 02/15/2022
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780228012122

About the Author
Kent Roach, CM, FRSC, is the Prichard-Wilson Chair in Law and Public Policy at the University of Toronto and the author of numerous books on Canadian criminal justice.


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