Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice articles from April 2003

Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice archives from April 2003

The social context of police discretion with young offenders: an ecological analysis.
April 1, 2003... Introduction Previous research has established the general importance of the effects of police discretion on official rates of delinquency. When the police lay a charge, they publicly define what kind of youth problems are official and...

Technologies of crime: the cyber-attacks on electronic gambling machines.
April 1, 2003... Introduction Electronic gambling is a recent phenomenon in Canada (Azmier, Kelley, and Todosichuk 2001; Campbell and Smith 1998; Marshall 1996a, 1996b, 1998; Smith and Azmier 1997; Vaillancourt 1999). Statistics show that the gross wager...

La remise en liberte sous conditions par les policiers dans des evenements de violence conjugale.
April 1, 2003... Introduction Jusqu'au milieu des annees 80, les hommes violents envers leur conjointe etaient peu souvent traduits devant les tribunaux. Cette situation a considerablement change avec l'adoption d'une serie de politiques et de directives...

The incarceration of Aboriginal offenders: trends from 1978 to 2001.
April 1, 2003... Visible minorities generally account for disproportionate numbers of admissions to custody in all Western nations, including Canada (see Tonry 1997; Roberts and Doob 1997). Aboriginal peoples in particular are over-represented in the prison...

Do youthful offenders reject adult punishment norms?
April 1, 2003... Legislative changes to youth justice laws in Canada and the U.S. in the past decade have typically included the theme of "getting tough." The getting-tough approach is sometimes justified by the belief that young offenders are a small group of...