Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice articles from January 2003

Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice archives from January 2003

Conventional calculations of homicide rates lead to an inaccurate reflection of Canadian trends.
January 1, 2003... Introduction Homicide rates are considered to be an indicator of general trends in violence across many societies. Often referred to as a "social barometer" (Bottomley and Pease 1986; Waller 1982), the prevalence of homicide is generally...

Parents and youth justice.
January 1, 2003... Introduction Although parents play a key role in helping prevent youth crime and rehabilitating those convicted of breaking laws, they are virtually invisible in youth justice policies and practices. Civil and criminal laws that attempt to...

The hare and the tortoise: dangerousness and sex offender policy in the United States and Canada.
January 1, 2003... Introduction In this article, building on a body of earlier work on dangerous offender legislation (Petrunik 1982; 1984; 1994a; 1994b; 2002), I compare recent American and Canadian approaches to the management of dangerous sex offenders. I...

It's all in the denominator: trends in the processing of girls in Canada's youth courts.
January 1, 2003... In attempts to understand youth crime in Canada, many scholars have examined trends in police charging and youth court processing of young offenders throughout the 1980s and 1990s. There appears to be general agreement that the rate at which...

La theorie de l'abuse-abuseur en delinquance sexuelle: qui dit vrai?
January 1, 2003... Theorie de l'abuse-abuseur Plusieurs etudes montrent qu'un nombre eleve de delinquants sexuels rapporte avoir ete victime d'abus sexuel au cours de leur enfance. De facon generale, les taux de victimisation sexuelle rapportes se situent...

Quelques elements de comprehension des liberations d'office reussies.
January 1, 2003... La liberation d'office dans le contexte de la liberte conditionnelle Depuis la deuxieme moitie du 19eme siecle, au Canada, le retour en societe des personnes condamnees a une peine d'incarceration s'organise autour d'une remise en liberte...