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One Step Further: An Overview Of Canada’S Past And Present Responses To Homelessness And The Argument For Alternative Conceptions Of Property Ownership, Logan Billard
Dalhousie Journal of Legal Studies
Homelessness in Canada continues to worsen year after year. Despite the shift from punitive, neoliberal policies to a human rights-based model, homelessness remains a national crisis. Federal initiatives like the National Housing Strategy Act and the Housing First Model aim to provide stable housing, but their impact remains limited. This paper explores the structural factors contributing to homelessness, including poverty, housing financialization, and systemic discrimination, particularly against Indigenous communities. It also highlights the limitations of the current human rights-based approach, focussing on the lack of enforceability and failure to create substantial, sustainable change due to systemic reliance on the financialization …
The Weight Of Discretion: Examining Perceptions, Decision-Making, And Overrepresentation In Canada's Youth Criminal Justice System, Adrienne Graham
The Weight Of Discretion: Examining Perceptions, Decision-Making, And Overrepresentation In Canada's Youth Criminal Justice System, Adrienne Graham
Dalhousie Journal of Legal Studies
The Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA) has changed the way that youth encounter Canada’s criminal justice system. While the reintegration and rehabilitation goals of the YCJA have decreased overall youth custody rates, Black and Indigenous youth continue to be treated differently than other youth. This paper examines the overrepresentation of Black and Indigenous youth in the criminal justice system, the impact of poverty on police oversurveillance, various policing practices, and the role of extrajudicial measures. Through discussing youth perceptions on police legitimacy alongside police perceptions of youth, this paper will demonstrate that in order to further the principles …
The Public In Action: The Potential For Public Inquiries To Realize Deliberative Democracy A Case Study Of The Mass Casualty Commission, Grace Bryson
Dalhousie Journal of Legal Studies
Public inquiries have the potential to promote deliberative democracy. However, the current structure and procedures employed in public inquiries do not promote this goal. Rather, the procedures are based in adversarial methods that do not align with the diverse functions of public inquiries. This paper addresses these procedural shortcomings and seeks to encourage more fulsome public participation. Using the Mass Casualty Commission in Nova Scotia as a case study, this paper proposes procedural changes that could enhance the role of the public in future inquiries to lead to transformative and beneficial policy change.