Canadian Journal of Criminology articles from April 1999

Canadian Journal of Criminology archives from April 1999

Introduction.
April 1, 1999... Over the last 10 years the Canadian Federal government has significantly redirected and reduced funding and support for both university and government criminal justice research. This decline is evident in the termination of the University...

Disenchanted criminology.
April 1, 1999... Criminology is an applied scientific discipline. Several research centres operate within its field and it is also an academic subject taught in universities and colleges. In other words, criminology has been institutionalized. We can infer at...

Risk society and actuarial criminology: Prospects for a critical discourse.
April 1, 1999... The individual social scientist tends to become involved in those many trends of modern society that make the individual a part of a functionally rational bureaucracy, and to sink into his specialized slot in such a way as not to be explicitly...

In defence of liberal models of research and policy.
April 1, 1999... The thesis advanced here is that liberal models of research in social policy -- and criminal justice policy is the quintessential arena of social policy -- should be rescued from their current state of doldrums and disfavour. These approaches...

New possibilities for a feminism "in" criminology? From dualism to diversity.
April 1, 1999... Feminist criminology in Canada has a history that dates back to the 1960's with the work of Marie-Andree Bertrand (1969). In concert with the political activities of the Canadian women's movement, feminist criminologists took on the challenge...

"Then and now": Federal support for justice research.
April 1, 1999... Legend tells of a golden age of research in Camelot (read Solicitor General Secretariat). Then vandals (Department of Justice) sacked Camelot. Renegades (personnel division) energetically eliminated former comrades. A researcher enslaved by...

Criminal justice research and policy in Canada: Implications of public service reform.
April 1, 1999... The development of a substantial capacity for "homegrown" criminological research in Canada, and the perception within government that such research may constitute an important contribution in the development of criminal justice policy, are...

On the fragmentation of Canadian criminal justice history.
April 1, 1999... Although writing on the history of criminal justice institutions in Canada dates back to the early part of the 20th century (Smandych, Matthews, and Cox 1987), it was not until the late -- 1970's that legal historians and criminologists began...

The current and future state of police research and policy in Canada.
April 1, 1999... Why police research? Doing research on and for a government public service created to bring public safety, security, and order, through the discretionary use of legal and coercive powers, makes police research important but problematic. All...

Youth justice research in Canada: An assessment.
April 1, 1999... In the fall of 1994, three of us were asked, by the Department of Justice, Canada, to spend a month producing "a summary review of criminological research, potentially relevant and useful to the Standing Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs...

Sentencing research in Canada.
April 1, 1999... With the advent of statutory reform in 1996(1), sentencing has once again become a priority for criminal justice researchers. The purpose of this brief article is three-fold. First, to provide some historical context for current research...

Corrections research in Canada: Impressive progress and promising prospects(1).
April 1, 1999... Over the past twenty years there has been an enormous amount of research in the area of corrections. This body of research covers a broad range of topics, and herein lies the first challenge for anyone attempting to give a brief summary of the...

The impact of aboriginal justice research on policy: A marginal past and an even more uncertain future.
April 1, 1999... The benefits of research for aboriginal criminal justice in Canada have scarcely been tapped. There have been some issue-specific activities (often result-oriented) over the past 25 years but research has not systematically been designed and...

A Northern taboo: Research on race, crime, and criminal justice in Canada.
April 1, 1999... American research has consistently found that race -- along with gender and age -- is one of the strongest predictors of officially reported criminal activity (Tonry 1995). Although statistics on race and crime are not normally released in...

A persistent paradox: Drug law and policy in Canada.
April 1, 1999... The 1990's were a turbulent time for developments on the drug policy front, but ended on a disappointing note for those expecting significant reform. While the decade began with a fledgling Canadian Drug Strategy that appeared to be distancing...

Discipline in dissent: Canadian academic criminology at the millennium.
April 1, 1999... Disciplinary dilemmas These are both the best and worst of times for criminologists labouring in academic sites from coast to coast in this country. On the sanguine side of the equation, the rise of criminology as a legitimate...

La criminologie au Quebec: 1960-1999(1).
April 1, 1999... 1. Introduction: Un mini-historique L'ecole de criminologie de l'Universite de Montreal a ete fondee le [l.sup.er] juin 1960 dans le cadre nord-americain classique d'une Faculte des sciences sociales. Le pionnier-fondateur et le premier...

Reinventing intellectuals.
April 1, 1999... There has been and continues to be considerable uncertainty among academic criminologists in Canada and elsewhere about how they might best contribute to the governance of security. What do they have to offer? How should they engage? Who should...

Concluding thoughts.
April 1, 1999... The remarkably vigorous response, which our invitations to submit articles to this Special Issue received, makes it clear to us that, whatever else may be said about the current state of criminology and criminological research in Canada, any...

RCJ-NET.
April 1, 1999... The Network for Research on Crime and Justice In June 1996, a number of senior criminal justice officials, met with academics from a variety of disciplines at Queen's University for a one day conference entitled "Bridging Policy and...