“Symptoms of something all around us”: Mental health, Inuit culture, and criminal justice in Arctic communities in Nunavut, Canada

Priscilla Ferrazzi and Terry Krupa

Social Science & Medicine, 2016, vol. 165, issue C, 159-167

Abstract: Rehabilitation-oriented criminal court mental health initiatives to reduce the number of people with mental illness caught in the criminal justice system exist in many North American cities and elsewhere but not in the mainly Inuit Canadian Arctic territory of Nunavut.

Keywords: Nunavut; Arctic; Canada; Culture; Inuit; Mental health; Criminal justice; Therapeutic jurisprudence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.07.033

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