Debra L. Parkes

Peter A. Allard School of Law

1822 East Mall

Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1

Canada

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Scholarly Papers (24)

1.

Ipeelee and the Pursuit of Proportionality in a World of Mandatory Minimum Sentences

For the Defence, Vol. 33, No. 3
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 12 Jul 2012
Debra L. Parkes
Peter A. Allard School of Law
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Sentencing, Indigenous Peoples

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Gladue: Beyond Myth and Towards Implementation in Manitoba

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 12 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 13 Apr 2012
Debra L. Parkes and David Milward
Peter A. Allard School of Law and David Milward
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Indigenous peoples, criminal justice, sentencing, social justice

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Precedent Unbound? Contemporary Approaches to Precedent in Canada

Manitoba Law Journal, Vol. 32, pp. 135-162, 2007
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 04 Apr 2010
Debra L. Parkes
Peter A. Allard School of Law
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precedent, stare decisis

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Precedent Revisited: Carter v Canada (AG) and the Contemporary Practice of Precedent

(2016) 10:1 McGill Journal of Law & Health S123
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 20 Nov 2017
Debra L. Parkes
Peter A. Allard School of Law
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Ballot Boxes Behind Bars: Toward the Repeal of Prisoner Disenfranchisement Laws

Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review, Vol. 13, p. 71, 2003
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 05 Apr 2010
Debra L. Parkes
Peter A. Allard School of Law
Downloads 314 (154,979)
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prisons, voting rights, felon disenfranchisement, human rights, comparative constitutional law

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Political Protest, Mass Arrests, and Mass Detention: Fundamental Freedoms and (Un)Common Criminals

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 12 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 12 Jul 2012
Debra L. Parkes and Meaghan Daniel
Peter A. Allard School of Law and Falconer Charney LLP
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Political protest, criminalization, social justice, prisoners' rights

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A Prisoners' Charter? Reflections on Prisoner Litigation Under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

University of British Columbia Law Review, Vol. 40, pp. 629-676, 2007
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 22 Apr 2008
Debra L. Parkes
Peter A. Allard School of Law
Downloads 285 (171,558)

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rights adjudication, prisons

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Counting Outsiders: A Critical Exploration of Outsider Course Enrollment in Canadian Legal Education

Osgoode Hall Law Journal, Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 667-732, 2007
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 18 Apr 2008
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section, Dalhousie University - Schulich School of Law, University of Victoria - Faculty of Law, University of Calgary - Faculty of Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, University of Ottawa - Common Law Section and Peter A. Allard School of Law
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feminist, critical race theory, outsider, pedagogy, legal education

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Introduction: Critical Prison Studies, Carceral Ethnography, and Human Rights: From Lived Experience to Global Action

Oñati Socio-Legal Series, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2018
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 22 May 2018
Sarah Turnbull, Joane Martel, Debra L. Parkes and Dawn Moore
University of Oxford - Border Criminologies, Université Laval - Department of Criminology, Peter A. Allard School of Law and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Human rights, incarceration, critical research, prison ethnography, critical prison studies, Derechos humanos, encarcelamiento, investigación crítica, etnografía de la prisión, estudios penitenciarios críticos

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From Smith to Smickle: The Charter's Minimal Impact on Mandatory Minimum Sentences

Supreme Court Law Review, Vol. 57, p. 149, 2012
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 13 Dec 2012
Debra L. Parkes
Peter A. Allard School of Law
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sentencing, mandatory minimum sentences, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

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Queering Legal Education: A Project of Theoretical Discovery

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 06 May 2005
Kim Brooks and Debra L. Parkes
Dalhousie University - Schulich School of Law and Peter A. Allard School of Law
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legal education, queer, feminist

12.

The Punishment Agenda in the Courts

(2014) 67 Supreme Court Law Review (2d) 589
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 30 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 11 Dec 2014
Debra L. Parkes
Peter A. Allard School of Law
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Solitary Confinement, Rights Litigation, and the Possibility of a Prison Abolitionist Lawyering Ethic

(2017) 32(2) Canadian Journal of Law and Society 165
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 11 Dec 2017
Debra L. Parkes
Peter A. Allard School of Law
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Targeting Workplace Harassment in Quebec: On Exporting a New Legislative Agenda

Employee Rights. & Employment Policy Journal, Vol. 8, p. 423, 2004
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 04 Apr 2010
Debra L. Parkes
Peter A. Allard School of Law
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workplace harassment, bullying, employment law

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Time for Accountability: Effective Oversight of Women's Prisons

Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Vol. 48, p. 251, 2006
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 04 Apr 2010
Kim Pate and Debra L. Parkes
Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies and Peter A. Allard School of Law
Downloads 158 (297,089)
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prisons, women prisoners, human rights, oversight and accountability

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Ending the Isolation: An Introduction to the Special Volume on Human Rights and Solitary Confinement

(2015) 4:1 Canadian Journal of Human Rights vii-xiii.
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 24 Mar 2015
Debra L. Parkes
Peter A. Allard School of Law
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Prisons, Human Rights, Solitary Confinement, Prisoners' Rights

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Looking Back, Looking Forward: Feminist Legal Scholarship in SLS

(2017) 26(6) Social and Legal Studies 735
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 15 Dec 2017
Susan B. Boyd and Debra L. Parkes
University of British Columbia Allard School of Law and Peter A. Allard School of Law
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Listening to Their Voices: Women Prisoners and Access to Justice in Manitoba

Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, Vol. 26, No. 1, 2008
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 04 Apr 2010
Kathy Bent, Tracey Peter, Tracy Booth and Debra L. Parkes
affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Peter A. Allard School of Law
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prisons, women prisoners, access to justice, human rights, oversight and accountability

Listening to Their Voices: Women Prisoners and Access to Justice in Manitoba

Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, Vol. 26, No. 1, p. 85, 2008
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 21 Apr 2011
Debra L. Parkes, Kathy Bent, Tracey Peter and Tracy Booth
Peter A. Allard School of Law, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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The 'Great Writ' Reinvigorated? Habeas Corpus in Contemporary Canada

Manitoba Law Journal, Vol. 36, No. 1, 2012
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 02 May 2014
Debra L. Parkes
Peter A. Allard School of Law
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habeas corpus, prisoners' rights

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Women in Prison: Liberty, Equality, and Thinking Outside the Bars

Journal of Law & Equality, Vol. 12, 2016
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 11 Dec 2017
Debra L. Parkes
Peter A. Allard School of Law
Downloads 72 (511,235)
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Prisoner Voting Rights in Canada: Rejecting the Notion of Temporary Outcasts

Christopher Mela and Teresa Miller, eds, Civil Penalties, Social Consequences (New York, Routledge, 2005), ch. 14.
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 28 Aug 2014
Debra L. Parkes
Peter A. Allard School of Law
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prison, prisoners' rights, voting rights, punitiveness

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Contextualizing Criminal Defences: Exploring the Contribution of Justice Bertha Wilson

JUSTICE BERTHA WILSON: ONE WOMAN'S DIFFERENCE, pp. 153-172, Kim Brooks, ed., UBC Press, 2009
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 21 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 12 Jul 2012
Isabel Grant and Debra L. Parkes
University of British Columbia - Faculty of Law and Peter A. Allard School of Law
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Criminal Law, Defences, Justice Bertha Wilson, Canada, Supreme Court, Self-Defence, Provocation, Necessity

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The Meaning of Life: A Study of the Use of Parole Ineligibility for Murder Sentencing

52:1 Ottawa Law Review
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 14 Dec 2020 Last Revised: 12 Mar 2021
Isabel Grant, Crystal Choi and Debra L. Parkes
University of British Columbia - Faculty of Law, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Peter A. Allard School of Law
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murder sentencing, parole ineligibility, multiple murders, consecutive parole ineligibility

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The Evolution of Life Sentences For Second-Degree Murder: Parole Ineligibility and Time Spent in Prison

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 22 Mar 2022
Debra L. Parkes, Jane Sprott and Isabel Grant
Peter A. Allard School of Law, Ryerson University and University of British Columbia - Faculty of Law
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Parole iIneligibility, life sentence, second-degree murder, prison