Canadian Journal of Criminology articles from October 1994

Canadian Journal of Criminology archives from October 1994

Underpunishing offenders: towards a theory of legal tolerance. (Canada)
October 1, 1994... This paper presents the results of two case-sentencing surveys and compares the demand for punishment (as expressed by the public) to its supply (as measured by the sentencing preferences of court actors). Findings show criminal court actors to...

Wife assault in community-resident offenders. (Canada)
October 1, 1994... The authors suveyed a random sample of community-resident offenders in British Columbia to determine the prevalence of wife assault. The rate was high: About 1 in 5 men had a known history (current or lifetime). These findings support the view...

An empirically-based typology of male young offenders. (Canada)
October 1, 1994... Two issues were addressed in the present study. First, the psychometric properties of a risk/needs assessment for youth (Youth Level of Service Inventory (YLSI) (Andrews, Ronbinson, and Hoge 1984) were explored. Second, an effort was made to...

Gun control and rates of firearms violence in Canada and the United States: a comment. (response to Robert J. Mundt, Canadian Journal of Criminology, vol. 32, p. 137, January 1990)
October 1, 1994... Writing in the Canadian Journal of Criminology, Mundt (1990, 32, January, 137-154) concluded that the Canadian legislation in 1977 regulating the acquisition of firearms had little perceptible impact on crime, suicides, and accidental deaths....

Situational Crime Prevention: Successful Case Studies.
October 1, 1994... This essay reviews the work of Ronald Clarke and other advocates of situational crime prevention appearing in the book, Situational Crime Prevention: Successful Case Studies (New York: Harrow and Heston, 1992). Clarke, one of the leading...

The Psychology of Interrogations, Confessions and Testimony.
October 1, 1994... Depuis une dizaine d'annees, Gudjonsson inonde les revues scientifiques d'articles sur la suggestibilite et la fausse confession. Sa reputation lui vient egalement d'avoir mis au point deux echelles paralleles qui permettent de mesurer la...

Modern Policing.
October 1, 1994... Introduction Cette collection d'essais sur la police americaine (sauf un article sur la police britannique) est un produit de qualite qui permet au lecteur etranger une mise a jour de ses connaissances en matiere de sociologie de la...

The Victoria Community Police Stations: A Three Year Evaluation.
October 1, 1994... There has been much less implementation and impact of community-based policing in Canada than one might expect given its apparent popularity in policing and governmental circles. One frequently cited instance has been in Victoria where, largely...

Intimate Enemies: Moral Panics in Contemporary Great Britain.
October 1, 1994... Philip Jenkins explains in the preface that the idea for Intimate Enemies started in 1986, when the British news carried stories on violence, sexual abuse, child abuse, and occasionally, assaults against adult women. Now we know that there is...

The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials: A Personal Memoir.
October 1, 1994... On the 8th of August 1945, the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Provisional Government of the French Republic, the Government of the United States of America, and the Government of the Union of Soviet...