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dc.contributor.authorT. Fitzgerald, Robin
dc.contributor.authorJ. Carrington, Peter
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T11:18:32Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T11:18:32Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.date.modified2011-10-17T07:25:57Z
dc.identifier.issn17077753
dc.identifier.doi10.3138/cjccj.50.5.523
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/26727
dc.description.abstractThis article addresses Carol La Prairie's (1992; 2002) hypothesis that the over-representation of Aboriginal people in the Canadian criminal justice system is, to a considerable extent, due to their disadvantaged urban living conditions. Specifically, it investigates the sources of the high level of police-reported Aboriginal crime in Winnipeg in 2001. Geocoded crime incident data from the incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey and Census data for the City of Winnipeg are combined in a neighbourhood-level ecological analysis of urban Aboriginal crime. The results indicate that a substantial part of the elevated level of police-reported Aboriginal crime is explained by the structural characteristics of the neighbourhoods in which Aboriginal people tend to live. These results confirm La Prairie's hypothesis and point to the importance of considering community conditions in understanding and preventing crime.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherCanadian Criminal Justice Association
dc.publisher.placeOttawa
dc.publisher.urihttps://utpjournals.press/toc/cjccj/50/5
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom523
dc.relation.ispartofpageto557
dc.relation.ispartofissue5
dc.relation.ispartofjournalCanadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice
dc.relation.ispartofvolume50
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCauses and Prevention of Crime
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCriminology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLaw
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode160201
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1602
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1801
dc.titleThe Neighbourhood Context of Urban Aboriginal Crime
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
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gro.date.issued2008
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorFitzgerald, Robin


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