Canadian Journal of Criminology articles from January 1993

Canadian Journal of Criminology archives from January 1993

La peur du crime et ses paradoxes: cartes mentales, ecologie criminelle et sentiment d'insecurite. (Montreal, Quebec)
January 1, 1993... Introduction Les sondages de victimisation ont stimule les recherches sur le sentiment d'insecurite en milieu urbain et, en particulier, sur les risques percus de victimisation personnelle (pour un bilan de ces travaux voir notamment...

An exploration of changes in dispositions for young offenders in Toronto. (Ontario)
January 1, 1993... Changes in dispositions for young persons convicted of criminal offences have been discussed largely in terms of the use of custody (e.g., Corrado and Markwart 1988; Doob 1991; Leschied and Jaffe 1988; Markwart and Corrado 1989). Seldom are...

Re-analyses of J.P. Rushton's crime data. (response to J.P. Rushton, Canadian Journal of Criminology, vol. 32, p. 315, 1990)
January 1, 1993... Introduction In a recent article in this Journal, Rushton (1990) presented his statistical analyses to document his view that crime frequencies follow his model of racial differences in behaviour. Rushton reports that he collected his...

Comments on the article ..."Gun control and rates of firearms violence in Canada and the United States" by Robert J. Mundt. (response to Robert J. Mundt in Canadian Journal of Criminology, vol. 32, p. 137, 1990)
January 1, 1993... The major thesis of the article by Mundt (1990) is that parallel trends in violent firearm crimes, firearm suicides, and firearm accidental deaths in both the U.S. and Canada prove that the decrease in firearm crimes and deaths in Canada is...

Rejoinder to comments on "Gun control and rates of firearms violence in Canada and the United States." (response to C. Kwing Hung in this issue, p. 37)
January 1, 1993... It is gratifying that the author of the accompanying critique read my article so carefully; that critique identified some minor data problems, and pointed to some alternative interpretations of those data. I hope to demonstrate that the...

A commentary on "A Vision of the Future of Policing in Canada: Police Challenge 2000."
January 1, 1993... This discussion paper on policing has been the most widely distributed product of a broader initiative undertaken by the Ministry of the Solicitor General of Canada under the direction of Andre Normandeau of the Criminology Department of the...

Attributions of blame toward incarcerated rapists among correctional workers: implications for staffing. (Canada)
January 1, 1993... This research note reports the results of a study intended to examine the patterns of attributions of blame for rape among different groups of correctional workers involved with a Canadian federal prison, and to explore the beliefs held by...

The Genesis of Canadian Criminal Code of 1892.
January 1, 1993... The Genesis of the Canadian Criminal Code of'1892 by Desmond H. Brown. Toronto: University of Toronto Press for the Osgoode Society. 1989. In 1892, Canada became the first self-governing jurisdiction in the British empire to codify its...

The Drug Solution: Regulating Drugs According to Principles of Efficiency, Justice and Democracy.
January 1, 1993... With the publication of these two important and timely books, Canadian scholarship has contributed anew to the international drug policy debate. Eschewing the simplistic "to legalize or not to legalize" pivot which dominates the American-style...

Peaceful Measures: Canada's Way out of the War on Drugs.
January 1, 1993... With the publication of these two important and timely books, Canadian scholarship has contributed anew to the international drug policy debate. Eschewing the simplistic "to legalize or not to legalize" pivot which dominates the American-style...

The Drug Solution: Regulating Drugs According to Principles of Efficiency, Justice and Democracy.
January 1, 1993... Pour Mitchell, la solution anti-prohibitionniste au > ne fait aucun doute; la violente et inefficace guerre aux drogues doit cesser, et une eventuelle regulation doit etre basee sur la liberte du citoyen a consommer les substances de son...

Judges and Judging: The Canadian Justice System.
January 1, 1993... Judges and courts play an important part in Canadian life. They decide controversial issues like abortion, hate literature, and the meaning of the Charter of Rights. But we know little about the men and women who make these decisions. ...

Children of Battered Women.
January 1, 1993... This book is the first to address wife assault specifically as it concerns children who have repeatedly witnessed the severe emotional and physical abuse of their mother. It builds upon the authors' research and intervention efforts with...

Prison on Trial: A Critical Assessment.
January 1, 1993... In Prison on Trail, Thomas Mathiesen critically examines the purposes of punishment and the related ideological assumptions underlying the use of prisons as places of punishment. In this tightly-written treatise, he concludes that prisons are a...

The Second Economy in Marxist States.
January 1, 1993... In light of the changing world political scene since 1989, books that were written in the closing years of the 1980's have become as much works of history as contemporary social studies. This edited collection of eleven papers, on what might be...

Police Intervention in Marital Violence.
January 1, 1993... This book is about the response of the police system to the problem of marital violence in England and Wales. It is concerned with police policy and its formulation, the translation of policy into practice, the role of discretion on the part of...

Crime and Crime Prevention for Insurance Practice.
January 1, 1993... The market for crime insurance is a conspicuous but understudied social phenomenon. Although it has been observed that "insurance has benefited enormously in all western industrialized nations from the advent of the consumer society" (Michael...

A General Theory of Crime.
January 1, 1993... Travis Hirschi, bien connu en criminologie pour son fameux Causes of Delinquency paru en 1969, est une figure marquante des theories explicatives de la delinquance. Son concept de "lien", decrivant l'attachement aux parents, l'engagement,...

Release from Imprisonment: The Law of Sentencing, Parole and Judicial Review.
January 1, 1993... The subject of this treatise is a core element of the sentencing structure: the law and process of conditional release from imprisonment in Canada. The purpose of the book, however, is twofold: First, to explain the law, and second, to...

L'apprentissage de la diversite.
January 1, 1993... Ce livre de petit format, joliment presente et de lecture facile, est un collectif publie sous la direction de Clotilde Pelletier du Centre de recherche et d'analyse en Sciences Humaines (SSDCC INC). Il est consacre a l'analyse des sessions...