Reckoning with Racism: Police, Judges, and the RDS Case (Landmark Cases in Canadian Law) - Tapa blanda

Backhouse, Constance

 
9780774868273: Reckoning with Racism: Police, Judges, and the RDS Case (Landmark Cases in Canadian Law)
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ISBN 10: 0774868279 ISBN 13: 9780774868273
Editorial: University of British Columbia Press, 2022

Sinopsis

In 1997, complacency about the racial neutrality of a predominantly white judiciary was shattered as the Supreme Court of Canada considered a complaint of judicial racial bias for the first time. The judge in question was Corrine Sparks, the country's first Black female judge.

Reckoning with Racism considers the RDS case. A white Halifax police officer had arrested a Black teenager, placed him in a choke hold, and charged him with assaulting an officer and obstructing arrest. In acquitting the teen, Judge Sparks remarked that police sometimes overreacted when dealing with non-white youth. The acquittal held, but most of the white appeal judges critiqued her comments, based on the tradition that the legal system was non-racist unless proven otherwise. That became a matter of wide debate.

This book assesses the case of alleged anti-white judicial bias, the surrounding excitement, the dramatic effects on those involved, and the significance for the Canadian legal system.

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Constance Backhouse is a Distinguished University Professor of Law at the University of Ottawa. She has written numerous prize-winning books, including Colour-Coded: A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900–1950 and Petticoats and Prejudice: Women and Law in Nineteenth-Century Canada. She has been awarded the Killam Prize, the Molson Prize, and the Governor General's Persons Award. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of the Order of Canada.

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Editorial
University of British Columbia Press
Año de publicación
2022
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ISBN 10 
0774868279
ISBN 13 
9780774868273
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Número de páginas
304
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