Canadian Journal of Criminology articles from July 1998

Canadian Journal of Criminology archives from July 1998

Psychopathy and Canadian criminal proceedings: the potential for human rights abuses.
July 1, 1998... Introduction Canadian criminal courts are increasingly relying on psychiatric and psychological assessments of psychopathy. When mental health professionals are called upon to give expert evidence, the courts generally appear to be...

Regulating autonomy: police discretion as a problem for training.
July 1, 1998... For some three decades now it has been established knowledge that police officers use discretion. That police officers are choosers is a recent conceptualization in policing, one which also resounds beyond policing literature. A recent body of...

Understanding provincial variation in incarceration rates.
July 1, 1998... One might expect there would be a simple relationship between crime rates and imprisonment rates -- as the crime rate increases, so does the imprisonment rate. The evidence for that simple relationship is far from clear. Cross-sectional...

Rethinking community resistance to prison siting: results from a community impact assessment.
July 1, 1998... Method An opinion survey was administered to residents in two Vancouver Island communities and a suburb of Vancouver. These included: Victoria and Vancouver Island Regional Correctional Centre (VIRCC); Nanaimo and Nanaimo Correctional...

Restoring Justice.
July 1, 1998... Restoring Justice by Daniel Van Ness and Karen Heetderks Strong. Cincinnati, Ohio: Anderson. 1997. "Restoring Justice" by Daniel Van Ness and Karen Heetderks Strong is a thoughtful and compassionate examination of the need in contemporary...