Briefs & Submissions : The John Howard Society of Canada

Everything the Society publishes – on criminal justice or correctional policy – is in the public domain, and some of it is on YouTube. You can read the testimony of various Senate or House of Commons presentations by searching the name of the Bill, the forum (House or Senate) and the date of the appearance.

Here is a page dedicated to Bill C-15, An Act to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and to make related and consequential amendments to other Acts.

The other excellent source of high-quality research is the Library of Parliament.

For meta-analyses of criminal justice policies conducted to the highest scientific standards, go to The Campbell Collaboration.

If you have a question about some aspect of correctional or justice policy research, you could hardly do better than to start at the Centre of Criminology’s Library.

Corrections Criminal Records Act Reform Drug Policy Justice Literacy Submissions Trends Young Offenders

Briefs & Submissions

Corrections

Prisoners’ Justice Day – 40 Years Since Edward Nolan Committed Suicide in Solitary Confinement in Millhaven Penitentiary

Submission to the Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs – Safe Streets and Communities Act: Bill C-10

Does Overcrowding in Canadian Prisons Amount to Cruel and Unusual Punishment?

November 26th Rally on Parliament Hill

Backgrounder on Prison Overcrowding

Fear-Driven Policy | The Literary Review of Canada | Graham Stewart & Michael Jackson

Evaluation Report: Electronic Monitoring Program Pilot, CSC, Evaluation Branch (2009)

The Temporary Absence Program: A Descriptive Analysis

Security Classification Using the Custody Rating Scale

Accelerated Parole Review: Were the Objectives Met?

Corrections and Conditional Release in Canada

Work Release Program: How it is Used and for What Purposes

A Roadmap to Strengthening Public Safety

Corrections and Conditional Release Statistical Overview (2007)

Presumptive Gradual Release (prepared 1999; revised 2007)

Information to Offenders (1998)

Community Supervision Provisions (1998)

The Corrections and Conditional Release Act Five Years Later (1998)

Offender Grievance System (1998)

Health Services (1998)

Information about Offenders (1998)

Judicial Determination (1998)

Case Management Preparation for Release and Day Parole Outcome (1998)

Personal Development Temporary Absences (1998)

The National Parole Board Registry of Decisions (1998)

Statutory Release and Detention Provisions (1998)

Provisions Relating to Victims (1998)

Effects of Corrections and Conditional Release Act (1992)

Report of the Standing Committee on Justice and Solicitor General on its Review of Sentencing, Conditional Release and Related Aspects of Corrections (Daubney) (1988)

Report of The Canadian Sentencing Commission (J.R. Omer Archambault) (1987)

The Justice System (Erik Nielsen) (1986)

The Criminal Law in Canadian Society (Chretien) (1982)

Final Report of the Steering Committee on Split In Jurisdiction in Corrections (Wakabayashi) (1978)

Report to Parliment (MacGuigan) (1977)

Report of the Standing Senate Committee on Lega; and Constitutional Affairs (Goldenberg) (1974)

Report of the Task Force on the Release of Inmates (Hugessen) (1973)

Report of the Commission of Inquiry into certain disturbances at Kingston Penitentiary (Swackhamer) (1971)

Report of the Canadian Committee on Corrections (Ouimet) (1969)

Report of a Committee Appointed to Inquire into the Principles and Procedures Followed in the Remission Service of the Department of Justice of Canada (Fauteux) (1956)

Criminal Records Act Reform

Criminal Records and Discrimination

Criminal Records Act Reform

Drug Policy

Guns, Gangs & Drugs: Can We Learn?

Policy for Reduction in the Misuse of Drugs

JHS Canada – Senate Cannabis Discussion Paper Reaction

JHS Canada – Senate Cannabis Report Reaction

JHS Canada – Canadian Cannabis Policy

Charlie Lloyd – “Sinning and Sinned Against: The Stigmatisation of Problem Drug Users”

Perspective on Canadian Drug Policy – Volume 1

Perspective on Canadian Drug Policy – Volume 2

Justice

Amber Kellen et al. – “Homeless and Jailed: Jailed and Homeless”

Why Should Prisoners Have the Right to Vote?

Brief to the House of Commons – Regarding Bill C-10: Act to amend the Criminal Code

Brief to the House of Commons: Regarding Bill C-9 – Act to Amend the Criminal Code

Speaking Notes – Bill C-215 – An Act to Amend the Criminal Code

Literacy

Prison Voices Work Book

Taking Down the Wall of Words – part 1

Taking Down the Wall of Words – part 2

Submissions

JHS Manitoba – Letter to Senators Regarding Bill C-10

Safe Streets and Communities Act: Bill C-10

Bill C-54 – An Act to Amend the Criminal Code

Bill C-59 – An Act to Amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act and to Make Consequential Amendments to Other Acts

Bill C-48 – An Act to Amend the Criminal Code and Consequential Amendments to the National Defence Act

Bill S-6 – An Act to Amend the Criminal Code and Another Act

Ineffective, Unjust and Inhumane: Mandatory Prison Sentences for Drug Offences

Submission to the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security investigating Federal Corrections, Mental Health and Addictions

Bill C-25 – A Non-Solution to a Complex and Poorly Understood Problem

Crime Prevention and Sustaining Healthy Communities

Submission to the CSC Review Panel

Trends

Correctional Service of Canada’s Response to Deaths in Custody

Measuring Crime in Canada – Introducing the Crime Severity Index and Improvements to the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey

Police-Reported Crime Statistics in Canada – 2009

Crime Statistics in Canada – 2008