Canadian Journal of Criminology articles from April 1996

Canadian Journal of Criminology archives from April 1996

Les troubles mentaux dans le Code criminel: une extension de l'interface entre le systeme penal et le systeme psychiatrique?(Canada)
April 1, 1996... Depuis fevrier 1992 au Canada, le traitement des troubles mentaux dans le systeme penal fail l'objet de nouvelles procedures suite aux amendements au Code criminel canadien, introduisant des changements importants dans les pratiques usuelles a ce...

Breaking into prison: news sources and correctional institutions.(Canada)
April 1, 1996... Introduction Some critics blame the glacial pace of prison reform on limited public awareness of the failures and horrors of penal institutions. In turn, this lack of public awareness is blamed partially on poor news coverage of prisons. For...

"Lock 'em up": attitudes toward punishing juvenile offenders.(Canada)
April 1, 1996... Selon les aulteurs, on a publie peu de recherches sur l'opinion publique concernant la justice penale pour les jeunes. Dans ce texte, il est question d'un modele de prediction de la tendance a punir les jeunes contrevenants etabli a partir d'une...

A response to Buckner. (response to H. Taylor Buckner, Canadian Journal of Criminology)(Canada)
April 1, 1996... In his comment on my article, Bill C-68: simple problem, complex solutions", H. Taylor Buckner exclaims: "In fact, the most empirically common scenario for firearms homicide is a male killed by an acquaintance, often in a bar fight or drug...

A response to professor Mauser. (response to Gary Mauser, Canadian Journal of Criminology, vol. 37, no. 4, p. 556, 1995)(Canada)
April 1, 1996... In his reaction to the article by Dr. Neil Boyd (1995), Professor Gary Mauser (1995) gave a seriously distorted account of the International Crime Victimization Survey (ICVS) through which, among many other variables, the first international data...

Canadians rarely use firearms for self-protection. (response to Gary Mauser, Canadian Journal of Criminology, vol. 37, no. 4, p. 556, 1995)
April 1, 1996... In a recent issue of this journal, Professor Gary Mauser of Simon Fraser University presented his views on the use of firearms by Canadians for the purposes of self-protection (Mauser 1995). His position is based largely on a study he conducted...

Confronting Sexual Assault: A Decade of Legal and Social Change.
April 1, 1996... by Julian Roberts and Renate Mohr (eds. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press. 1994. In general, this volume addresses the role that legislative reform can play in reducing coercive sexual behaviour. More specifically, the editors indicate...