Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice articles from January 1 2009

Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice archives from January 1 2009

Keeping a respectful eye on crime prevention: a response to Birgden.(response to article by Astrid Birgden in this issue, p. 93)(Canada)
January 1, 2009... There is much in the work of Dr. Astrid Birgden that we admire. Birgden (2004) opened Andrews's eyes to our inattention to respect for personal autonomy as a basic value underlying our psychology of criminal conduct and the RNR approach. That...

Crime-prevention jurisprudence? A response to Andrews and Dowden.(response to D.A. Andrews and Craig Dowden, Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, vol. 49, p. 439, October 2007)
January 1, 2009... Introduction Recently, Andrews and Dowden (2007) published an article in which the risk-need-responsivity model was applied to risk assessment and justice processing regarding crime prevention and correctional rehabilitation. (1) The...

The saga continues: Canadian legislative attempts to reform cannabis law in the twenty-first century.
January 1, 2009... In July 2003, an article in the Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice suggested that Canada's long "saga of promise, hesitation, and retreat" in cannabis law reform was finally ending (Fischer, Ala-Leppilampi, Single, and Robins...

Exploring drug sourcing among regular prescription opioid users in Canada: data from Toronto and Victoria.
January 1, 2009... Introduction Recent North American data document substantial increases in non-medical prescription opioid (PO) use (e.g., morphine, hydromorphone, oxycodone) in both general (e.g., adult, student, youth) and street-drug-use populations...

Crime specialization across the Canadian provinces.
January 1, 2009... I. Introduction Crime statistics are ubiquitous in contemporary society. In both Canada and the United States, there are special government statistical bodies that solely measure criminological phenomena: the Canadian Centre for Justice...

Spatial dimensions of fear in a high-crime community: fear of crime or fear of disorder?(Canada)
January 1, 2009... Introduction For evaluation purposes, community-based crime-prevention strategies often focus on possible reductions to fear of crime (Crawford 1998) as well as on various types of disorder or so-called quality-of-life concerns (Wilson and...