Canadian Journal of Criminology articles from April 1994

Canadian Journal of Criminology archives from April 1994

L'emergence des troubles de comportement et ses consequences au cours de la latence. (Canada)
April 1, 1994... Deux objectifs sont poursuivis dans cet article a l'aide d'un millier d'enfants rencontres a plusieurs occasions entre dix et douze ans. D'une part, il s'agit de decrire l'emergence des troubles de comportement. D'autre part, il s'agit...

Using routine statistics in estimating prison population for policy assessment.
April 1, 1994... Background There have been some highly sophisticated methods developed to look at the population aspects of correctional policy. For instance, queuing models (Blumstein, Cohen, and Miller 1980; Yablon 1988) or time-series (Tracey,...

The suppression of crime statistics on race and ethnicity: the price of political correctness. (Canada) (Crime and Race Statistics)
April 1, 1994... In several media commentaries, I have stated that crime statistics based on race or any other variable should be collected if they shed light on the issue of crime. I have made these assertions with the recognition that such information could...

Reservations about race and crime statistics. (Canada) (Crime and Race Statistics)
April 1, 1994... Rather than undertake an extended discussion, I suggest below a number of reservations regarding the collection and publication of statistics on race and crime. It is my opinion that, given the significance of the difficulties, the onus for...

Academic approaches to race-crime statistics do not justify their collection. (Canada) (Crime and Race Statistics)
April 1, 1994... Although discussion about race-crime statistics in Canada may be traced back to 1929 (Roberts 1992: 2), the level of attention given to this issue has increased considerably during the past five years. Much of the debate around this issue is...

Crime and race statistics: toward a Canadian solution. (Crime and Race Statistics)
April 1, 1994... In this comment, I argue that routinely collecting and publishing crime-race statistics has more disadvantages than advantages. I believe that ethnicity data should be gathered only on a periodic basis, as part of the "special study" initiative...

Doing Less Time: Penal Reform in Crisis.
April 1, 1994... En fevrier 1982, les services correctionnels de New South Wales en Australie lancaient un nouveau programme de remise en liberte avant la fin de la peine. Le Ministre, Rex Jackson, avait decide d'utiliser le pouvoir discretionnaire que lui...

Realist Criminology: Crime Control and Policing in the 1990's.
April 1, 1994... The Canadian crop on policing, in terms of publications, has been particularly abundant and of relatively high standing in the last two years or so, since the "Gray Paper" of the Ministry of the Solicitor General of Canada (1990): A Vision of...

Historique de l'Association des policiers provinciaux du Quebec: 1966-1991.
April 1, 1994... Les grandes reflexions historiques aus sujet des acteurs et des oranismes du systeme penal canadien demeurent encore au stade des balbutiements. Ainsi toute tentative pour jeter un regard eclaire doit etre serieusement consideree. Jean-Francois...

Domestic Violence: The Changing Criminal Justice Response.
April 1, 1994... Domestic Violence is firmly set in a post-Sherman and Berk era. Sherman and Berk (1984) conducted a quasi-experimental study comparing arrest with advising or separating couples in wife assault cases. The conclusion that arrest led to the...