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Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice archives from January 2006
Crime Prevention through Environmental Design: discourses of risk, social control, and a neo-liberal context .(Canada)
January 1, 2006... L'auteur etudie les facons dont les praticiens et les adeptes dc la Prevention du crime par l'amenagement du milieu (CPTED) cadrent, dans leur discours, les risques relies a la criminalite. Il soutient, en effet, qu'on cadre ces risques de...
Male and female youth crime in Canadian communities: assessing the applicability of social disorganization theory.
January 1, 2006... Si le niveau de sensibilisation a la criminalite des adolescentes augmente, rares sont les theories et etudes empiriques en criminologie qui tiennent compte de cette criminalite. Par ailleurs, la theorie de la desorganisation sociale offre une...
Improving the effectiveness of the National DNA Data Bank: a consideration of the criminal antecedents of predatory sexual offenders.
January 1, 2006... Les auteurs ont evalue l'efficacite de la Loi sur l'identification par les empreintes genetiques en determinant si 106 predateurs sexuels meurtriers et 85 predateurs sexuels violeurs avaient deja ete condamnes pour des infractions exigeant la...
Results by design: the artefactual construction of high recidivism rates for sex offenders.(Canada)
January 1, 2006... Selon les propos de Langevin, Curnoe, Fedoroff, Bennett, Langevin, Peever, Pettica et Sandhu dans un article publie en 2004, le taux de recidive des deinquants sexuels s'etablirait a 88.3%. Or, une analyse approfondie de cet article demontre...
What population and what question?(sex offenders' recidivism)(Canada)
January 1, 2006... In 1984, Vernon Quinsey commented that, "by selectively contemplating the various studies, one can conclude anything one wants" about sex offenders' recidivism rates (101). Unfortunately, this observation remains valid two decades later. Ron...
Long-term follow-up studies are difficult: comment on Langevin et al. (2004).(response to Ron Langevin and others, Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, vol. 46, p. 531, October 2004)
January 1, 2006... Understanding the long-term recidivism rates of sexual offenders is an important research topic with considerable implications for criminal justice policies. Estimating long-term recidivism rates is difficult, however, because the behaviour of...
Reply to Webster, Gartner, and Doob.(response to Cherly Marie Webster and others in this issue p. 79)(Canada)
January 1, 2006... Cheryl Webster, Rosemary Gartner, and Anthony Doob have criticized as "fatally flawed" our study "Lifetime Sex Offender Recidivism: A 25-Year Follow-Up Study," which appeared in this journal in October 2004. Their conclusions, however, are...
Addendum to Dr Hanson's remarks.(response to R. Karl Hanson, Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, vol. 48, p. 103, 2006)
January 1, 2006... Dr R. Karl Hanson (2006) has pointed out the limitations of using RCMP files for recidivism research: namely, the RCMP has decided to delete files that are inactive for 15 years; those in which the offender was deceased; those of offenders over...