Bailey, J. & Shayan, S. (2016). Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Crisis: Technological Dimensions. Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 28(2), 321-341. University of Toronto Press. Retrieved from http://muse.jhu.edu.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/article/629379
Bailey and Shayan presents a nuanced perspective on the missing and murdered indigenous women crisis by focusing on the cybercrimes committed against indigenous women. Technology intertwined with systemic racism, misogyny, and colonialism has facilitated many forms of violence against women including human trafficking, violent pornography, and harassment. I will argue in my essay that the federal government must gather data on cybercrimes committed against indigenous women, promote …show more content…
She claims that the police lack the training to properly identify indigenous women in police records and neglect to fully investigate crimes against indigenous women. Hansen states that the RCMP’s report does not reflect the concerns of the indigenous communities and presents unreliable and incomplete statistics as evidence. Hansen’s analysis provides me examples of how misinformation skews perceptions and reinforces the neglect of indigenous women by law enforcement, policy makers and the justice system. I will use her analysis of RCMP statistics to highlight the problems of our existing data on the …show more content…
McDiarmid reports that some police forces have neglected to record the ethic origins of missing women, and the voluntary and decentralized nature of submitting data to the national police database has hindered the process of finding the root of the issue. In my essay, I will argue that provincial and municipal police forces’ failure to record and submit data on missing and murdered indigenous women requires the federal government to enforce nationwide data submissions to the national police database for analysis.
Razack, S. H. (2016). Sexualized Violence and Colonialism: Reflections on the Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 28(2), i-iv. University of Toronto Press. Retrieved from
Bailey and Shayan presents a nuanced perspective on the missing and murdered indigenous women crisis by focusing on the cybercrimes committed against indigenous women. Technology intertwined with systemic racism, misogyny, and colonialism has facilitated many forms of violence against women including human trafficking, violent pornography, and harassment. I will argue in my essay that the federal government must gather data on cybercrimes committed against indigenous women, promote …show more content…
She claims that the police lack the training to properly identify indigenous women in police records and neglect to fully investigate crimes against indigenous women. Hansen states that the RCMP’s report does not reflect the concerns of the indigenous communities and presents unreliable and incomplete statistics as evidence. Hansen’s analysis provides me examples of how misinformation skews perceptions and reinforces the neglect of indigenous women by law enforcement, policy makers and the justice system. I will use her analysis of RCMP statistics to highlight the problems of our existing data on the …show more content…
McDiarmid reports that some police forces have neglected to record the ethic origins of missing women, and the voluntary and decentralized nature of submitting data to the national police database has hindered the process of finding the root of the issue. In my essay, I will argue that provincial and municipal police forces’ failure to record and submit data on missing and murdered indigenous women requires the federal government to enforce nationwide data submissions to the national police database for analysis.
Razack, S. H. (2016). Sexualized Violence and Colonialism: Reflections on the Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 28(2), i-iv. University of Toronto Press. Retrieved from