Canadian Journal of Criminology articles from January 2001

Canadian Journal of Criminology archives from January 2001

BOOKS RECEIVED.(Review)
January 1, 2001... African American Criminological Thought. Helen Taylor Greene and Shaun L. Gabbidon, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. 2000. Bearing Witness to Crime and Social Justice. Richard Quinney. Albany, NY: State University of New York...

Women, Crime and the Canadian Criminal Justice System.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Women, Crime and the Canadian Criminal Justice System, par Walter S. DeKeseredy. Cincinnati: Anderson Publishing Co. 2000. Ce livre, qui se centre sur le contexte canadien, aborde differentes problematiques reliees a la delinquance des...

Locating Law: Race/Class/Gender Connections.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Locating Law: Race/Class/Gender Connections, sous la direction de Elizabeth Comack, avec la collaboration de Sedef Arat-Koc, Karen Busby, Dorothy E. Chunn, Judy Fudge, Shelley A. Gavigan, Lisa-Marie Jakubowski, Kirsten Johnson, Patricia...

Masculinities, Crime and Criminology.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Masculinities, Crime and Criminology de Richard Collier. London: Sage. 1998. Deux livres sur un objet similaire: la violence et la criminalite des hommes, deux manieres fondamentalement differentes de l'aborder. Commencons par le...

Breaking the Chains.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Breaking the Chains, morceaux choisis de Bruno M. Cormier et de la Clinique de psychiatrie legale de l'Universite McGill, presentes par Renee Fugere et Ingrid Thompson-Cooper avec une preface de Gilbert Pinard. Volume Two: Papers. Westmount,...

Masculinities and Violence.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Masculinities and violence, sous la direction de Lee H. Bowker. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage. 1998. Deux livres sur un objet similaire: la violence et la criminalite des hommes, deux manieres fondamentalement differentes de l'aborder....

The search for the holy flaw. (response to articles by Julian V. Roberts, Robert J. Geboyts, Pierre Landreau, Lucie Lemonde, and Michael Jackson, p. 65, 99, 109)
January 1, 2001... In this issue of the journal, three articles [(1) Roberts and Geboyts; (2) Landreville and Lemonde, and (3) Jackson] were submitted in response to a study by Zinger, Wichmann and Andrews on the psychological effects of segregation. This piece...

Making prisons safer and more humane environments. (response to articles in this issue)
January 1, 2001... When the senior author first began to investigate the effects of prison life, concerns were narrowly focused if not naive.(2) In the 1960's, Kingston Penitentiary had an inmate count of 1,000, but only several inmates at any one time were...

Characteristics of administratively segregated offenders in federal corrections.
January 1, 2001... Introduction A Commission of Inquiry into Certain Events at the Prison for Women in Kingston (1996) had underscored the fact that the correctional practice of segregating offenders be administered in compliance with the law and monitored...

Making a Killing: The Business of Guns in America.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Making a Killing: The Business of Guns in America by Tom Diaz. New York: New Press. 1999. This book makes an enormous contribution to our knowledge about the enigmatic firearms industry and the role this industry continues to play in...

Prisoners of isolation: Research on the effects of administrative segregation.(response to article by Ivan Zinger, Cherami Wichmann, and D.A. Andrews in this issue, p. 47)
January 1, 2001... The research reported by Zinger, Wichmann, and Andrews in this issue of the journal raises some familiar themes. As Landreville and Lemonde observe in their commentary, the debate over the effects of imprisonment goes back some time. In October...

Voir ou ne pas voir la souffrance: reflexions a propos d'une demarche de recherche?(1).(response to article by Ivan Zinger, Cherami Wichmann and D.A. Andrews in this issue, p. 47)
January 1, 2001... La lecture de l'article de I. Zinger, C. Wichmann et D.A. Andrews The Psychological Effects of 60 Days in Administrative Segregation (dans ce numero) a provoque chez nous un profond malaise et une impression de deja vu. Profond malaise, tout...

The psychological effects of administrative segregation.(response to article by Ivan Zinger, Cherami Wichmann and D.A. Andrews in this issue, p. 47)
January 1, 2001... It seems fitting that I should begin my commentary on the research of Zinger et at. on the psychological effects of 60 days in administrative segregation with two stories culled from my own most recent research archives. I say fitting because...

La couverture journalistique des requetes de revision judiciaire au Canada.
January 1, 2001... Introduction Lors de l'abolition de la peine de mort au Canada, en 1976, une nouvelle disposition legale fut introduite dans le Code criminel: la revision judiciaire (art. 745.6 du C.cr.). Celle-ci permet aux personnes condamnees pour...

Prevalence and consequences of spousal assault in Canada.
January 1, 2001... Introduction There is a long-standing debate in both Canada and the United States about the gender-specificity of spousal assaults and about the severity and consequences of these violent events (Tjaden and Thoennes 2000; Straus 1999;...

The psychological effects of 60 days in administrative segregation.
January 1, 2001... In Canada, the percentage of segregated prisoners has more than doubled in the last ten years, now representing approximately 5.5% of federally sentenced prisoners (Pierson 1988; Kane 1997). However, little research has been conducted on these...

Editorial.(administrative segregation in Canadian prisons)(Editorial)
January 1, 2001... In many respects, depriving a prisoner of contact with other inmates is the most punitive action taken by penitentiary administrators. The use of administrative segregation has been an important problem in Canada's penitentiaries for years. How...

Corrigendum.(Correction Notice)
January 1, 2001... In the review of Kent Roach's book, Due Process and Victims' Rights, by Jo-Anne Wemmers in vol. 42 no. 4 of the Journal, the following correction should be made on page 512, lines 33 to 37. Although Roach himself does not use the term,...