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INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINOLOGY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE
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The epidemic of murdered and missing of indigenous girls and women is a burning issue,
which has been affecting the indigenous people in the territory of Canada, as well as in such Frist
Nations. This issue has been analyzed as a Canadian Genocide, as well as a National Crisis in
Canada (Palmater, 2016). A consistent mass movement in Canada has worked for raising
awareness in the issue regarding murder and missing indigenous women and girls (MMIWG) by
several community meetings, organized marches, council meeting in local and tribal and training
to reduce domestic violence for police officials (Bailey, & Shayan, 2016). Stereotypes
contiguous indigenous peoples in the territory of Canada are often fallacies born for the reason
that of colonialist national misunderstandings, as well as Eurocentric perspectives (Wilson,
2018). Such National Inquiry for the MMIWGs has emerged for bringing the attention of the
general indigenous people to such overrepresentation of missing, as well as the murder of
indigenous people in the territory of Canada. This paper aims to discuss the issues of missing and
murder of aboriginal and indigenous people in Canada critically.
The movement of MMIWG inquiry has led to dedicating every indigenous woman in
Canada who has ensured searching for her murdered and missing loving ones persisted alive
(Smiley, 2016). During such an inquiry movement, there is a distinct lack of concerns on the part
of the government of Canada and by such postponement of the Commission, who has eventually
acknowledged the segregation of Indigenous people who are killed or go disappeared from
society in which place they were living. However, the present Prime Minister, Trudeau has tried
to improve and betterment of people in Canada National Inquiry of Murdered and Missing
Indigenous Women and Girls in the year 2016. The inquiry on 22nd April 2016 within the year
1980 to 2012, such indigenous girls and women have represented almost 16% of all women or
female homicide, where it has been constituting almost 4% of such female population in this

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territory of Canada (Finney, 2017). In comparing to the non-indigenous women with the
indigenous women, the non-indigenous females are also come under the umbrella of this form of
violence and disproportionately exaggerated by these offences. However, in the media of
Canada, it has been significantly discussed by Indigenous publics who have urged to the inquiry
for including males who have been murdered or missing.
The anxious relationship between the criminal justice system and indigenous people has
gone back to the ancient colonization system in Canada. It has well recognized that such
indigenous people in Canada have been suffering from unending colonialism or colonization and
systemic discrimination among other non-indigenous people (Dhillon, 2015). Consequently,
violence against aboriginal or indigenous people has continued for increasing and, even though it
is anticipated that police officials will try to retain indigenous people harmless and safe, the
officials have not shaped or produced a theatrical impression in expressions of dropping such
overrepresentation of this category of people among murdered and missing people in Canada
(Bourgeois, 2015). It has found that these categories of people have been overrepresented as prey
to various crimes, which have included non-spousal violence. Indigenous people are to be
expected as prey of non-spousal ferocity than non-Indigenous people in this country (Hansen, &
Dim, 2019). In understanding the relationship between the indigenous community and the police
officials, often the officers think indigenous males are connected with any criminal activity such
as drug dealers or any violent gangsters. In contrast, the women in this community are
categorized as prostitutes. It is specious that the officers have used these racial and criminal
stereotypes or categories as a vindication or excuse for treating those indigenous Peoples in the
wrong way. It is in the mind of those community that the criminal justice system, which is
generally functioned by the police officials, will not help them in any problem arises even in the