Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice articles from April 2006

Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice archives from April 2006

Human rights compliance and the role of external prison oversight/Respect des obligations relatives aux droits de la personne et role de la surveillance externe.
April 1, 2006... Introduction to the special issue Correctional authorities around the world are under increasing legislative and societal pressure to introduce more austere ("no-frills") prison regimes, impose new restrictions on prisoners, and tighten...

The litmus test of legitimacy: independent adjudication and administrative segregation.(Canada)
April 1, 2006... Introduction Over the past 30 years a vigorous controversy has emerged in the literature, policy forums, legislative committees, and judicial commissions of inquiry as to the measures necessary to ensure that the use of administrative...

Time for accountability: effective oversight of women's prisons.(Canada)
April 1, 2006... Women prisoners in Canada have long endured a system designed and managed for the more than 95% of the prison population that is male (Arbour 1996: 239). Various government reports and commissions of inquiry dating back to 1938 have highlighted...

Creating a federal inmate grievance tribunal.(Canada)
April 1, 2006... In the summer of 2004, the Office of the Correctional Investigator (OCI) released a discussion paper titled Shifting the Orbit (Canada, OCI 2004b). The primary question raised by the paper was "whether some form of independent adjudication of...

Gone but not forgotten: should judges be allowed to remedy by re-sentencing?(Canada)
April 1, 2006... Background The Arbour Report (1996) makes 14 omnibus recommendations. Number 8 provides as follows: 8. With respect to correctional issues more generally, I recommend: (a) that the Department of Justice, at the initiative of the...