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Risky Justice of the Law: The Impact of Risk-Assessment Tools on Aboriginal Offenders’ Overrepresentation in Canada's Federal Prisons
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Official narratives have often blamed the Aboriginal peoples of Canada for their over-representation in Canada's federal prisons. This article argues that the problem is partially due to the problematic design and application of risk-assessment tools that have produced dubious results for Aboriginal offenders. This, in turn, has resulted in a vicious circle, beginning with labeling Aboriginal offenders as high-security risk offenders, followed by the lowering of their chances of getting paroled, and ending in their long-term stays in federal prisons. This last stage, in turn, becomes justification for the other two. And so continues the circle.
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“This has meant that it has usually been the strength of Indigenous offenders' marginalization that has made it more probable for them to score higher on risk-tools compared to others (Barmaki, 2023; Martel et al., 2011).”
From Colonization, Normalization and Risk-Assessment: The Case of Youth Criminal Justice Act and Correctional Overrepresentation of Indigenous Youth in Canada (2025) · cites this paper as Barmaki, 2023
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Barmaki, R. (2025) · International Criminology · doi:10.1007/s43576-025-00170-8 · Cited by 1
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- Authors
- Barmaki, R.
- Affiliations
- York University (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Barmaki, Reza
- ORCID
- Barmaki, Reza
- Venue
- The Prison Journal
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2022-11-24
- Volume
- 103
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 68-90
- ISSN
- 0032-8855 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-7522
- OpenAlex
- W4309874665
- Cited by
- 2
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1
- FWCI
- 0.36
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Prison Journal (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Social Sciences › Law › Criminal Justice and Penology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Keywords
- Aboriginal offenders, risk assessment tools, federal prisons, parole, criminal justice policy, Canada
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