It is an assignment of Women, Crime and Social Justice course. The topic is "Legislation and its policy towards the Indigenous women of Domestic Violence in Canada" You need to give an one page memo (

Topic: Law Enforcement in Manitoba towards Indigenous Victims of Domestic Violence

The injustice of legislation towards indigenous women is not unknown. The rising issue of domestic violence towards this community is striking. But how much actually the legal personalities work to overcome the situation? There is a mass number of news reports that we see in daily life about this concern, yet the people of power fail to acknowledge the real deal.

In Manitoba every 1 in 3 indigenous women experience domestic violence in form of physical or sexual violence (Heidinger, 2021). in this context more often experience forms of violence considered to be the most severe—for example, homicide (Moreau et al. 2020) and being sexually assaulted, beaten, or choked (Boyce 2016). The rate is 30% lower among non-indigenous woman. Indigenous women are more at risk of experiencing violence by a spouse (Burczycka 2016).

As per finding of Government of Canada website intimate partner violence is a major problem facing by aboriginal woman. Some acts have been created to bring justice to this, but the question is how much does it comes to enforcement? And who should be blamed increasing rate of this? Low education levels, poverty and being of a young age are thought to characterize women victims. Police mostly does not deal seriously with such cases. While the mandatory charging policy has led to a significant increase in charges, as would be expected, a high percentage of these cases result in stays of prosecution (Violence towards Aboriginal Women and Children, n.d.). Evidence was presented to the Inquiry that suggested the police did not always consider spousal abuse a serious crime. In other instances, women spoke of being removed from their home by the police after they had made an initial complaint about a violent spouse. The Aboriginal Justice Implementation Commission recommends that, the Government of Manitoba increase the number of Aboriginal persons employed by the Women's Advocacy Program so that advocacy services delivered to Aboriginal victims are delivered primarily by Aboriginal service providers (Violence towards Aboriginal Women and Children, n.d.).