Article: B.C. leader plans to use traditional sentencing circles for

Article: (Mental-health court in British Columbia).
The Report;  March 31, 2003 ;     377 words ... ... promise they will. That may be a good idea. But we already have similarly constituted "drug courts," and sentencing circles for Native offenders, which might be considered a kind of "Indian court." What next? Alcoholic courts? Gay ...

Article: Appeals Court limits reach of justice programs; Sentencing ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  May 3, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Sentencing circles and judges can't be more creative ... and doing community service. Sentencing circles, a form of restorative justice ... This is not going to limit sentencing circles from being creative, but it does ...

Article: Sentencing circles may offer changes for young ...
Windspeaker;  March 1, 1996 ;     693 words ...Sentencing circles could alleviate some of the estrangement Native youth feel from ... youth become involved in alternative measures. JUSTICE 1) Can sentencing circles be effective? 2) Was the chief in Davis Inlet right in ousting ...

Article: "Sentencing Circles and Intimate Violence: A ...
Resources for Feminist Research;  September 22, 2007 ;     683 words ... ... against Aboriginal peoples. These claims extend to cases of intimate violence. In the case of judicially convened sentencing circles in cases of intimate violence in Canada, these claims have been borne out. In fact, by measuring the outcomes ...

Article: Sentencing circles: aboriginal justice and ...
LawNow;  April 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...This past December, two Saskatoon policemen were convicted by an all white jury of unlawful confinement of a native man that they had driven to the outskirts of Saskatoon and left in the 22 below weather. The convicted men asked that they be sentenced by a sentencing circle instead of by the Judge

Article: Resettlement of British Columbia: essays on ...
Labour/Le Travail;  September 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ...(Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press 1997). IN THE PAST FEW YEARS, the writing of British Columbia history has become increasingly ... scholarship. His own writing on British Columbia, cumulatively presented here in ...

Article: Gold crystal localities of British Columbia, ...
Rocks & Minerals;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... exhibit at the University of British Columbia's Williams Geological Museum ... specialized in minerals from British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest ... information that it carries is "British Columbia." The specimen, if indeed ...