Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice articles from April 2008

Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice archives from April 2008

The rise and fall of RCMP community justice forums: restorative justice and public safety interoperability in Canada.(Royal Canadian Mounted Police)
April 1, 2008... Restorative justice programs have proliferated in Canada over the past three decades. During the 1990s, the emphasis and development of restorative justice perhaps reached its summit when both the federal government and the RCMP outwardly...

Student and non-student perceptions and awareness of identity theft.
April 1, 2008... Introduction "I feel completely violated"--this phrase is commonly heard from those who have experienced identity theft and then had their personal information used to commit a fraudulent act. Why? Our identity is something that we all...

Youth auto theft: a survey of a general population of Canadian youth.
April 1, 2008... Motor vehicles continue to be increasingly crucial to daily life. Unfortunately, they are also targets of crime. The problem of theft of and from vehicles has drawn worldwide attention (e.g., for Europe, see Richards 1993). Whether measured by...

Four-factor structure of the correctional personnel rating scale.(Canada)
April 1, 2008... Within corrections research, efforts to better understand the role of correctional officers (CO) has focused primarily on assessing their attitudes towards their job and offenders. For instance, Tellier, Dowden, Fournier, and Franson (2001)...

Correlation between climate and crime in Eastern Tokyo.
April 1, 2008... Introduction Correlations between weather and crime have been reported (Cohn 1990; Lab and Hirschel 1987) and generally crime occurs more frequently in good weather. This correlation seems to be strongest in rural areas, where people tend...