99% of Ontario community safety grants go to police
About 1000 words; 5 minutes to read By Claire Wilmot , adapted from The Conversation One of the major issues in the current debate over defunding the policing is whether police are being asked to do too many things that...
Read MoreThe state of Canadian prisons – Correctional Investigator’s Report, 2018-19
900 words; 4 minutes to read The annual reports by Canada’s Correctional Investigator (CI) provide a unique lens into conditions in Canada’s federal prisons. Both the current Investigator, Ivan Zinger, and his predecessor, Howard Sapers, along with their staff, have...
Read MoreIs crime about the individual or the society?
1000 words; 4 minutes to read. Many of the debates in criminal justice eventually come down to the question of how we understand wrongful behaviour. For most of human history, we have seen wrongdoing as lying in the individual who...
Read MorePrisoner’s Stories – Breakfast at Timmie’s – Part 3
This post is about 1000 words and can be read in about 4 minutes. This is the third of a four part story sent to us by a prisoner at a Quebec federal prison, describing a visit to an Aboriginal...
Read MoreTreating someone as a criminal perpetuates crime: Goldlist
This post is about 700 words and can be read in about 3 minutes. By Peter Small, AdvocateDaily.com Contributor Reprinted with the permission of AdvocateDaily.com A criminal record contributes to more crime Society’s branding of someone as a criminal becomes...
Read MoreHelping to rehabilitate sex offenders is controversial – but can prevent more abuse
This post is 800 words and can be read in 3-4 minutes. This is an edited and modified version of a paper written by Prof. Belinda Winder and Prof. Nicholas Blagden which appeared in The Conversation. The original paper had...
Read MoreHigh rates of child abuse among Canadians in jail
This post is 700 words and can be read in about 3 minutes. Canadian jails and prisons are full of people who experienced various forms of abuse while they were themselves children, according to a summary of research recently published...
Read MoreHealth care after prison
This post is about 580 words and can be read in 3 minutes. Many people leaving Canadian jails and prisons face very significant obstacles to developing a normal life. Despite the criminal justice system’s official goal of assisting rehabilitation, those...
Read MoreMore services lead to fewer crimes
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...
Read MoreSeeing crime as a public health issue: Gregg Caruso
This post is about 950 words and will take 4-5 minutes to read. Gregg Caruso’s short and readable book, Public Health and Safety: The Social Determinants of Health and Criminal Behavior, available free online, makes the argument for thinking about...
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