Canadian Journal of Criminology articles from January 1997

Canadian Journal of Criminology archives from January 1997

The getting of wisdom: the ideology an experience of graduate education among students enrolled in anglophone Canadian criminology programs.
January 1, 1997... Cet article porte sur un sondage fait aupres de 175 etudiants actuels et anciens au niveau de la maitrise et du doctoral en criminologie aux universites de Simon Fraser, d'Ottawa et de Toronto. L'article fait etat de leurs profile...

Equivalency and interchangeability: the unexamined complexities of reforming the fine. (fines instead of imprisonment in U.S. and Canada)
January 1, 1997... Reform proposals in Canada and the United States have called for the increased use of fines as a substitute for imprisonment and have assumed that sentences of fines can be made equivalent to imprisonment in severity. This study examines the...

Why are crime rates going down? A case study in Edmonton. (Canada)
January 1, 1997... Dans le texte, les auteurs font etat de la reduction importante des taux de criminalite a Edmonton dans les deux dernieres annees. Des etudes anterieures demontrent que les raisons principales de ces chutes de la criminalite vent la diminution de...

Crime Prevention Strategies in Europe and North America.
January 1, 1997... Crime Prevention Strategies in Europe and North America by John Graham and Trevor Bennett. Helsinki, Finland: European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control. 1995. What works in preventing interpersonal crime? In recent years,...

The International Library of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Penology, 25 vols.
January 1, 1997... edited by Gerald Mars and David Nelken. Aldershot, U.K. and Brookfield, U.S.A./Darmouth Publishing Company, 25 volumes, 1994, 1995, and 1996. This "library" is in fact a "series" of readers covering almost all the domains of criminology....

Constructing Danger: The (Mis)Representation of Crime in the News.
January 1, 1997... by Chris McCormick. Halifax: Fernwood. 1995. Sociologist Chris McCormick of St. Mary's University apparently intends this as a textbook for his undergraduate seminar on crime and the media, but also for wider audiences interested in this...

Constructing Danger: The (Mis)Representation of Crime in the News.
January 1, 1997... by Chris McCormick. Halifax, N.S.: Fernwood. 1995. Constructing Danger is about the creation and maintenance of ideology as a form of social control. People form opinions and occasionally behave on the basis of images from the social...

Punishment for Profit: Private Prisons/Public Concerns.
January 1, 1997... by David Shichor. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage. 1995. Debates about private prisons are highly charged. On the one hand, advocates -- who are often involved in the business wax eloquent on the cost-efficient and other virtues of private...