Canadian Journal of Criminology articles from April 2001

Canadian Journal of Criminology archives from April 2001

Editorial. (response to Ivan Zinger, Canadian Journal of Criminology, vol. 43, p. 47, January 2001) (Editorial)
April 1, 2001... The last issue of the journal contained a new empirical analysis of the effects of administrative segregation. The article was accompanied by some commentaries and a rejoinder from the authors. The article by Zinger et al. raises some broader...

Trajectoires de delinquance et de consommation de substances chez des hommes et des femmes en detention. (Canada)
April 1, 2001... Introduction Depuis une dizaine d'annees, les intervenants du reseau correctionnel se preoccupent de plus en plus de ce que l'on nomme "les doubles problematiques" ou encore "les problematiques multiples" des personnes admises en...

Illicit opiates and crime: Results of an untreated user cohort study in Toronto.(Canada)
April 1, 2001... Introduction Illicit opiate use is a complex social and public health problem in many developed countries (UNDCP 1997). One key aspect of the problem is illicit opiate users' involvement in criminal activity (Brochu 1995; Tonry and Wilson...

Income inequality and homicide rates in Canada and the United States.
April 1, 2001... Introduction Several theoretical approaches in the social and biological sciences suggest that inequitable access to goods provokes antisocial behaviour and violence (Braithwaite 1979; Maynard Smith 1982; Runciman 1966; Wilkinson 1996;...

A meta-analytic examination of youth delinquency, family treatment, and recidivism.(Canada)
April 1, 2001... Introduction There is a growing body of meta-analytic work in the field of correctional treatment that has demonstrated significant reductions in recidivism rates for both adult and young offenders (Andrews, Zinger, Hoge, Bonta, Gendreau,...

Social research with eyes wide shut: The limited confidentiality dilemma.(Canada)
April 1, 2001... Introduction Volume 43(1) of the Canadian Journal of Criminology includes Zinger, Wichmann, and Andrews's (2001) article on the effects of "administrative segregation" on Canadian prisoners. Our intention here is not to revisit matters...

Legal and ethical obligations in social research: the limited confidentiality requirement.(Correctional Service of Canada)
April 1, 2001... We responded to three critiques of our study on the effects of 60 days in administrative segregation in the last issue of this journal, and believed that we had responded to all possible attempts at "knowledge destruction" (Andrews and Bonta...

Making Sense of Sentencing.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Making Sense of Sentencing edited by J.V. Roberts and D.P. Cole. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 1999. Julian Roberts et David Cole, deux des plus grands specialistes actuels de la determination de la peine au Canada, nous presentent...

La disgrace de l'humanite: Essai sur la torture.(Review)
April 1, 2001... La disgrace de l'humanite: Essai sur la torture par Serge Patrice Thibodeau, preface de Pierre Sane, Secretaire general d'Amnistie internationale, Montreal: VLB editeur. 1999. La torture continue de faire des ravages dans le monde. La...

Preventing Torture: A Study of the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Preventing Torture: A Study of the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment par Malcolm D. Evans et Rod Morgan, Oxford: Clarendon. 1998. La torture continue de faire des ravages dans...

Punishment in America: Social Control and the Ironies of Imprisonment.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Punishment in America -- Social Control and the Ironies of Imprisonment par Michael Welch. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. 1999. Michael Welch, un professeur de l'Universite de Rutgers du New Jersey, nous presente dans Punishment in...

Le citoyen, le crime et l'Etat.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Le citoyen, le crime et l'Etat par Philippe Robert. Geneve-Paris: Librairie Droz. 1999. Le dernier livre de Philippe Robert est une synthese de ses travaux anterieurs avec une avancee critique dans le futur. Dans la mesure ou une partie de...

The Beast Within: Why Men Are Violent.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Beast Within: Why Men are Violent by Neil Boyd. Vancouver: Greystone Books. 2000. Neil Boyd's The Beast Within is a genuine tour de force on perhaps the best predictor of violence-gender. In an accessible volume of less than 200 pages,...

Canadian Corrections.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Canadian Corrections par Curt T. Griffiths et Alison Cunningham. Scarborough: Nelson. 2000. Canadian Corrections n'est pas une premiere pour Curt Griffiths puisqu'il a deja publie dans les annees quatre-vingts, avec son collegue John...