Post #239 800 words; 4 minutes to read Summary: Current practices on responding to sex offences would do more to reduce recidivism if they were more consistent with the available evidence . Sex offenders are probably the most reviled...
Read MorePost #238 900 words; 4 minutes to read Summary: A study of 1600 young men in Quebec shows that imprisonment can badly interfere with normal life development, leading to increased recidvism. A very high proportion of the people in...
Read MorePost #234 1200 words; 5 minutes to read Audio summary by volunteer law student Hannah Lee Summary: Women released on parole face many obstacles to building good lives, some of which are a direct result of the parole system itself....
Read MorePost #233 900 words; 4 minutes to read Summary: Ben Perrin, law professor and former advisor to the Harper government, makes a compelling argument for a dramatic change in our approach to criminal justice. ‘Indictment’, by Benjamin Perrin. University...
Read MorePost #219 1000 words; 4 minutes to read Audio summary by volunteer law student Hannah Lee. Summary: The Youth Criminal Justice Act led to many improvements but some substantial challenges remain. By Emily Stewart, Associate Editor John Howard Society Week...
Read MorePost #218 1300 words plus poem; 5 minutes to read Audio summary by volunteer law student Hannah Lee. Editor’s note: This post was written by a woman who is on the national sex offender registry. Although registries have been shown...
Read MoreBy Riley Mintz, Volunteer. Riley is a second year law student at the University of Ottawa. Our blog now has more than 200 posts on a wide variety of topics. Here are brief mentions of nine previous posts on...
Read MoreThe John Howard Society of Canada releases ” Feeding Time: A Whole-Community Approach to Safer, Smarter Reintegration of Federal Prisoners in Post-Pandemic Canada”. This report, written by federal prisoner I. M. Grenada, reviews Canadian provisions for the release and re-integration...
Read MorePost #211 820 words; 4 minutes to read Audio summary by volunteer Hannah Lee Summary: A review of 116 studies finds, consistent with many earlier studies, that imprisonment does not reduce crime. Canada’s current government often claims to be ‘evidence...
Read MoreAt John Howard Society Canada, we have arranged for some activities that we hope will raise public awareness about our charity and its engagement on issues and delivery of services to further just, effective, and humane responses to the causes...
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