Falling Crime Rates in Many Countries

October 9, 2018

This post is under 800 words and can be read in about 4 minutes. Although many Canadians don’t seem to believe this – perhaps because so much media coverage is about crime – crime rates in Canada have fallen dramatically...

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Positive developments in the US prison system

September 28, 2018

This post is about 600 words and can be read in 3 minutes. Prisons provide another example of a field in which Canadians can point to our neighbours to the south and feel superior, even when in reality we may...

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Can Canadian prisons be improved?

September 20, 2018

This post is 800 words and can be read in about 4 minutes. The new head of the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) has been given a huge mandate for change in that organization, which operates Canada’s federal prisons and...

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Policing Black Lives

September 11, 2018

This post is about 450 words and can be read in 2 minutes. Canadians who follow the news are used to seeing scenes from the United States of black people being shot by police, or wrongfully convicted, or beaten while...

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Canadian organizations in criminal justice reform

September 7, 2018

This post is under 800 words and can be read in 3 minutes. Canada has many organizations that work in the area of criminal justice reform.  Below is a list of organizations whose exclusive or main focus is on criminal...

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How to Have Fewer Wrongful Convictions

September 4, 2018

This blog is about 1200 words and takes about 5 minutes to read. Canada should make a series of changes to laws and criminal justice procedures in order to prevent more people from being convicted of crimes which they did...

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Canadians don’t like mandatory minimum sentences

August 27, 2018

This post is about 700 words and takes 3-4 minutes to read. The Liberal government elected in 2015 had as one of its election commitments ending mandatory minimum (MM) sentences for various crimes.  Although the first mandatory minimums were put...

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More services lead to fewer crimes

August 20, 2018

This post is about 680 words and can be read in 4 minutes. Collaborative programs that provided health and social services to people in frequent trouble with the law had a very powerful positive effect in British Columbia, reducing recidivism...

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