Canadian Journal of Criminology articles from October 1993

Canadian Journal of Criminology archives from October 1993

Canadian youth court charges and dispositions for females before and after implementation of the Young Offenders Act. (Canada)
October 1, 1993... The article examines youth court responses to female young offenders from 1974 to 1991. As expected, there has been a reduction in status offences. Unexpectedly, there is a striking increase in noncompliance with the administration of youth...

The prediction of males' adolescent and adult offending from school experience. (Canada)
October 1, 1993... Introduction Literature on the school experience of young delinquents frequently describes their poor performance and behaviors in the school setting, their weak bonding to the institution, and dropping-out of school. The relation...

Criminal victimization in male federal prisons. (Canada)
October 1, 1993... Introduction Although a considerable amount of victimization research has been conducted at the national and local levels, most of this research has taken the form of social surveys of the general population. Scant attention has been...

Les bandes de motards au Quebec: hypotheses du declin d'une population.
October 1, 1993... 1. Introduction La recherche touchant le phenomene du gang(1) remonte pratiquement au debut des premieres sociologies de la deviance aux Etats-Unis, avec les travaux de l'Ecole de Chicago (Vold et Bernard 1986). Il s'agit la d'un...

Screwing the System and Making It Work: Juvenile Justice in the No-Fault Society.
October 1, 1993... The role of probation officers in a juvenile court context in a mid-western suburb in the United States is the focus of this excellent and well-written book. Jacobs asserts that, contrary to the dominant theories about the role of probation...

The Child Witness: Legal Issues and Dilemmas.
October 1, 1993... "When a child cries wolf" (April 18), "Child abuse has adults on guard" (June 15), "Asking kids about a touchy subject" (July 23), and "Fairytales of abuse make for nightmares" (July 30) are titles of some articles published by Canada's...

Les grands systemes de politique criminelle.
October 1, 1993... Paru dans la prestigieuse collection de droit prive, le traite que nous propose l'auteur des deux tomes du "Droit penal des affaires" (1990), des Modeles et mouvements de politique criminelle" (1983), du "Flou du droit" (1986) occupe un...

Delinquance systematisee des jeunes et vulnerabilite societale: essai de construction d'une theorie integrative.
October 1, 1993... A l'instar de plusieurs autres auteurs des deux dernieres decennies, Walgrave propose un cadre theorique pour saisir I'etiologie de la delinquance juvenile. Ce dernier s'interesse tout particulierement aux jeunes provenant des couches sociales...