Canadian Journal of Criminology articles from April 1993

Canadian Journal of Criminology archives from April 1993

La legalisation des drogues... pour mieux en prevenir les abus.
April 1, 1993... Beauchesne's analysis of drug policy is bolder and more comprehensive than any yet published in Canada. Her thesis is that the current drug prohibition is, ironically enough, bad for people's health. This is because prohibition creates a...

Editorial. (35th anniversary of Canadian Journal of Criminology, past achievements and future plans) (Editorial)
April 1, 1993... I am both pleased and proud to be assuming the editorship of the Canadian Journal of Criminology. The publication of this volume marks the 35th anniversary of the Canadian Journal of Criminology (hereafter CJC). This is a source of pride for...

The physical and psychological correlates of job burnout in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
April 1, 1993... Introduction Stress has been a popular topic in the police literature since the 1970's and 1980's (Grier 1982; Jackson and Maslach 1982; Kankewitt 1986; Lester 1982; Lester and Gallagher 1980; Loo 1984; Loo 1985; Stratton 1984). A...

Injuries to police officers attending domestic disturbances: an empirical study. (Canada)
April 1, 1993... Introduction Empirical research on deaths and injuries to police officers attending domestic disturbances has been characterized by contradictory findings with respect to deaths and inconsistent findings in the case of injuries. A review...

Ecouler la marchandise volee, une approche rationnelle? (Canada)
April 1, 1993... Considerant que les modeles plus traditionnels n'arrivent pas a rendre compte avec satisfaction de la criminalite et qu'ils nous entrainent actuellement dans une sorte d'impasse conceptuelle, un certain nombre de propositions novatrices sont...

Policing in Montreal: a new vision.
April 1, 1993... The May 7th, 1992, report by the Special Coroner, Mr. Harvey Yarosky, on the death of a young black, Marcellus Francois, in July 1991, is both dramatic and devastating. "Its an institutional fiasco", he said,... "the failure of the Montreal...

Social support and the fear of crime. (Canada)
April 1, 1993... It has been argued by several writers that supportive relationships involving friends or family may provide important means by which victims of crime cope with the pains and trauma of their victimization experiences (Fattah and Sacco 1989;...

Mea Culpa: A Sociology of Apology and Reconciliation.
April 1, 1993... Many efforts have been made to turn criminal justice from its ultimate reliance on punishment to other forms of social responses which are less destructive. Reconciliation, for example, has been increasingly stressed in the recognition that...

Criminologie.
April 1, 1993... The number of Canadian criminology journals is still relatively modest but probably appropriate when we take into consideration not only the total Canadian population but the potential Canadian readers and contributors in our field. In Canada,...

The Scale of Imprisonment.
April 1, 1993... North Americans are obsessed with a "we're number one" mentality and a world class" sensibility. Often this reflects parochialism and conceit, as in the "World" Series of baseball that only involves teams from North America. Unfortunately, in...

Understanding Criminal Victimization: An Introduction to Theoretical Victimology.
April 1, 1993... In defence of a criminological victimology Ever since Von Hentig and Mendelsohn coined the term victimology almost half a century ago, a debate has been raging about the subject-matter of this new discipline (or focus within...

The Rise of the Penitentiary: Prisons and Punishment in Early America.
April 1, 1993... Adam J. Hirsch's analysis of the rise of the penitentiary in the United States is extensively documented, 109 pages of dense footnotes backing up a multi-faceted argument which is economically presented in 117 pages of text. The central point...

Abused and Battered: Social and Legal Responses to Family Violence.
April 1, 1993... In Abused and Battered, Knudsen and Miller attempt to bring together the second generation of family violence research, examining the social and legal responses encouraged by early research in this field. The title of the book seems to capture...

Crime in Canadian Society, 4th ed.
April 1, 1993... Time was when teachers of introductory criminology had few texts from which to choose. That has changed in recent years; there are now several excellent texts and readers dealing with crime and justice in Canada. This is the fourth edition of a...

Law and the Mind: Biological Origins of Human Behavior.
April 1, 1993... This is a small book devoted to a large topic as the title indicates. It is highly recommended in a Prologue by Guido Calabresi, Dean of Yale Law School, as well as in a Foreword by E. Donald Elliott. The book is nevertheless very problematic,...

The Rebels: A Brotherhood of Outlaw Bikers.
April 1, 1993... No theorizing, however ingenious, and no observance of scientific protocol, however meticulous, are substitutes for developing a familiarity with what is actually going on in the sphere of life under study. (Blumer 1969:39) When thinking...