Canadian Journal of Criminology articles from January 1995

Canadian Journal of Criminology archives from January 1995

Young people's understanding and assertion of their rights to silence and legal counsel. (Canada)
January 1, 1995... Introduction Over the past several decades there has been a substantial increase in public concern for children's constitutional rights. While the child welfare movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries focused on children's rights to...

Adolescent drug use and a general theory of crime: an analysis of a theoretical integration. (Canada)
January 1, 1995... Introduction Criminologists have expressed considerable dissatisfaction with existing theories of crime and deviance. Textbook writers (see, for example, Nettler 1984; Jackson and Griffiths 1991) routinely present lengthy discussion of...

Prison overpopulation and strategies for decarceration. (Canada)
January 1, 1995... Introduction The population in carceral establishments has increased considerably in the past twenty years, in both Canada and the United States. In Canada, there were 19,668 persons incarcerated in 1972, a detention rate of 90 per 100,000...

Has violent youth crime increased? Comment on Corrado and Markwart. (response to Alan Markwart and Raymond R. Corrado, Canadian Journal of Criminology, vol. 36, p. 343, 1994) (Canada)
January 1, 1995... This comment concerns two conclusions reached by Corrado and Markwart in their recent Journal article (1994): * "the per capita rate of young persons charged with Criminal Code offences increased by a relatively modest 25 percent between 1986...

A response to Carrington. (response to article by Peter J. Carrington in this issue, p. 61) (Canada)
January 1, 1995... Introduction Carrington's response to our position on changes in violent youth offences (Corrado and Markwart 1994) essentially rests on the assumptions that pre- and post- Young Offenders Act (YOA) police data from Uniform Crime Reports (UCR)...

Sexual assault is a crime of violence. (response to article by Peter J. Carrington in this issue, p. 61) (Canada)
January 1, 1995... In his recent examination of youth crime statistics, Peter Carrington asserts that: "it is doubtful that the offence categories showing increases [in rates] represent "violence" and further: "it is inaccurate to refer to level I physical and...

De l'anthropologie a la criminologie comparee.
January 1, 1995... Denis Szabo est un criminologue quebecois et canadien d'origine hongroise qui a fait ses etudes de doctorat a l'Universite de Louvain (Belgique). Professeur a l'Universite de Montreal des 1958, il a cree le Departement de criminologie en 1960 (le...

Violence in the Workplace: A Prevention and Management Guide for Businesses.
January 1, 1995... Reports in the news media attest to the increased levels of violent behaviour in workplace settings. This behaviour ranges from harassment and verbal abuse to homicidal attacks. Large organizations, whether government or public corporations, are...

Policing Canada's Century: A History of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police.
January 1, 1995... It is often said that the biographer and the institutional chronicler are given to exaggerating their protagonist's place in history. This study indicates that it is impossible to ignore the complex role of the police in our historical...

Deadly Deeds: Murder in Canada.
January 1, 1995... Sur la base des statistiques officielles produites par Statistique Canada, Silverman et Kennedy ont entrepris une etude detaillee des homicides commis au Canada. Sans produire de revelations inedites, elle met en evidence la realite telle qu'elle...

Social Oppression.
January 1, 1995... The author notes that the systematic inquiry into the problems of social oppression is not adequately covered in works on sociology of law. The above volume fills this gap. There are some important omissions but also great originality,...

La police: le cas des democraties occidentales.
January 1, 1995... 1. La police (390 pages) de Gleizal, Gatti-Domenach et Journes, professeurs aux Universites de Grenoble et Lyon, est une synthese sur la police dans les societes occidentales et liberales, en particulier sur les systemes policiers du Canada, des...

La police en France.
January 1, 1995... 2. La police en France (127 pages) de J.J. Gleizal, professeur a l'Universite de Grenoble, est l'un des "petits" livres de la fameuse collection francaise: Que sais-je? A ce titre, le livre synthetise a grands coups de pinceaux les fondements...

Les forces de l'ordre dans l'Union Europeenne.
January 1, 1995... 3. Les forces de l'ordre dans l'union Europeenne (372 pages) de P. Meyzonnier est un bilan qui decrit, pour chacun des douze pays de l'Union Europeenne, dans quel cadre geographique, humain, legislatif et juridique, les polices nationales...

Polices et societes en Europe.
January 1, 1995... 4. Polices et societes en Europe (378 pages) de J.C. Monet fait partie d'une serie "Vivre en Europe" qui souhaite contribuer a une meilleure connaissance mutuelle des peuples de l'Europe, fondee sur une claire conscience de leurs differences et...

Gendarmerie et modernite.
January 1, 1995... 5. Gendarmerie et modernite (495 pages) de F. Dieu est une etude empirique de la Gendarmerie nationale francaise: par analyse de contenu, par observation participante et par entrevue semi-directive. L'approache de l'auteur est celle du...

Les polices en Belgique.
January 1, 1995... 7. Les polices en Belgique (336 pages) de Van Outrive, Cartuyvels et Ponsaers est "une histoire socio-politique du systeme policier de 1794 a nos jours", comme le signale le sous-titre. Au depart de ce livre, un choix methodologique s'imposait:...

Le droit de la police: la loi, l'institution et la societe.
January 1, 1995... 8. Le droit de la police (319 pages) de C. De Valkeneer est un ouvrage belge ecrit en prolongement de l'etude au Parlement belge de plusieurs projets de loi visant a reorganiser le systeme policier belge. L'auteur a effectue une recherche sur la...

Desarmer la police?
January 1, 1995... 9. Desarmer la police? (154 pages) de Y. Dube, en collaboration avec L. Beauchesne, est ecrit par deux criminologues -- politologues quebecois. Y. Dube, toutefois, revendique une experience pratique de quatre ans a titre d'ex-policier d'un...

Policiers: danger ou en danger?
January 1, 1995... 10. Policiers: danger ou en danger? (192 pages) de G.A. Parent est l'oeuvre d'un journaliste quebecois qui a ete affecte a la couverture d'evenements criminels depuis plus de 25 ans. Il detient egalement une maitrise en criminologie. Ce livre,...