Aboriginal Overrepresentations Case Study

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A) At the age of 1, this aboriginal male youth was removed from his parent’s home by the welfare system and spend his childhood years in and out of different homes, where he had experienced emotional abuse, physical abuse, family violence, and serious childhood trauma. These experiences have a long lasting and negative impact on his life. At 13, this aboriginal male ran away from his foster parents and lived on the streets with his friends that were involved in the gang life. While he had attended school on a daily basis as a child until he turned the age of 12-13 years-old he was frequently in the principles office getting suspended for fighting or simply just being violent to his peers. Since he was constantly getting into trouble at school, …show more content…

Aboriginal crime rate is known to be a lot higher than non-aboriginal crime rate. “The provincial crime rate (excluding reserves) at 1003 offences per 10 000 people, whereas the estimated crime rate on reserves was 1505 offences per 10 000 people”. (Aboriginal Justice Inquiry. 1999. Psychology of Criminal Behavior). By having these crime rate numbers being said, then I think this is one of the major reasons why Aboriginal people are being overrepresented. Crime defiantly has a grip on many of the aboriginal people. “Violent crime committed on reserves were eight times higher for assaults, seven times higher for sexual assault, and six times higher for homicides than rates in the rest of Canada. (Statistics Canada. 2006. Psychology of Criminal Behavior). These numbers could just be as high as they are due to discrimination of aboriginal people. There are many cases where aboriginals face discrimination because of their racial appearance. For example, I am a aboriginal person, and every time I walk into a store to shop for clothing, I ALWAYS get followed by white sales people. You can get the vibes off them, thinking you are intended to steal things. Although, not all aboriginal people steal, nor are they a bad person. Also, another example is when police officers see aboriginal people in a group in public,

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