Aboriginal Sex Workers Case Study

protection or support and more likely to be in need of surveillance and control” (Chan, p.261). An example of a situation that occurred between the Aboriginal community and the criminal justice system was the incident with Frank Paul. According to Razack (as stated in Chan, p.260), Frank Paul was picked up by police for being drunk in public. He was eventually released but was brought back to the station for a second time, where the sergeant refused to keep him. Frank was left in an alleyway, and later found dead with hypothermia. This was not the only time an Aboriginal person was mistreated by the police, men usually left by the police to freeze to death are given a “starlight tour- police picked up the intoxicated Aboriginal men, and drove …show more content…
Robert Picton (2010) was based on missing Indigenous women who were sex trade workers from Vancouver’s downtown area. The police did little to acknowledge the value of their lives just because of what they did as their job and their ethnic background. Aboriginal sex workers are depicted as silenced and racialized and are different from a respectable point of view. Jiwani and Young (as stated in Brooks & Schissel, p.129) describe Aboriginal women, who work as sex workers, as deserving of violence, they are represented as “invisible victims of violence and hyper visible as deviant bodies”. There is an over representation of minorities being involved in the sex trade, gangs, and custodial institutions making the middle class believe that these criminal activities are used for disenfranchisement. Due to the rate of over representation of Aboriginals that are incarcerated the justice system we must take into consideration the different risks or needs given to them by using a previous case of R V. Glade. This case is used for decisions of the court under section 718.2 of the criminal code which allows the courts to take into account non-custodial options when considering an Aboriginal offender. The role of government, criminal justice system, and public policy normalize racism and is a fundamental concern in the critical race theory. A historical event that still diminishes Aboriginal people in Canada is residential schools. Residential schools have been one of the worst historical factors for Aboriginal people where they were trying to colonize and assimilate them into the white way of life. They took children from their homes and were separated from their families, culture and beliefs. The government funded an approach for Indigenous children to learn english and french and to adopt christianity. When returned home from school they did not fit in with the community, they were so brow beaten and doctrinated that they forgot their own