Prisons around the world
Post #167 650 words; 3 minutes to read Dr Baz Dreisinger is a professor of writing at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. In this work she has been very involved in programs that teach...
Read MoreA model of misinformation – The CSC Annual Report
Post # 160 About 900 words; 3-4 minutes to read. Transparency is an often used word but seldom observed practice in government. Nowhere is this contradiction between theory and practice more evident than in the annual report of the Correctional...
Read MoreLack of education and training in Canadian prisons
Post #158 775 words; 3 minutes to read One of the clearest findings about imprisoned people in Canada is that the vast majority have serious deficits in their education that make it harder for them to find work and support...
Read MoreRethinking violent crime
Post #154 950 words; 4 minutes to read Many discussions of crime treat so-called ‘violent crimes’ as a special subset that deserves a different, and harsher, response. But there are compelling reasons to be dubious about this distinction. Many of...
Read MorePrisoners on Prisons
Post # 151 710 words; 3 minutes to read Most Canadians have very little sense of what it is like to be in prison. Perhaps most people don’t care, on the theory that ‘if you are in prison it’s for...
Read MoreCould expungement of criminal records hurt more people than it helps?
Post # 150 About 100 words; 5 minutes to read. This post is adapted with permission from a longer article by the same authors posted by The Niskanen Centre, a US policy organization. This is an issue in which the...
Read MoreConvict criminology
Post #148 720 words; 3 minutes to read In most social policy systems, having experience in the system is held to be an advantage for those who study it. In some fields, such as medicine, virtually all those who teach...
Read MoreRestorative Leisure: Transitioning into the Community After Incarceration
Post #146 560 words; 3 minutes to read by Melissa Tabet Prison remains an expensive and relatively ineffective aspect of criminal justice in Canada. Prison in Canada has an estimated recidivism rate of 27%, based on new offenses within two...
Read MoreFrom Riches to Restorative Justice
By Joseph Grmovsek 1270 words; 5 minutes to read I was torn about how to begin this article. Do I grab the attention of readers by describing the story behind my decade-and-a-half career insider trading in Canada and the United...
Read MoreHow science calls into question sentencing practices
830 words; 4 minutes to read Our criminal justice system goes back well before the advent of the social sciences and the development of reliable knowledge about human behaviour. But because it is so firmly based on precedents and past...
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