Restorative justice and sexual assault – Marlee Liss story
580 words; 3 minutes to read One of the most contentious areas in criminal justice discussion is around sexual assault. Clearly there are very significant issues here around sexual encounters, and consent. These are difficult for the criminal justice system...
Read MoreThe best interests of the child: Criminal sentencing in Canada
This post is about 600 words and can be read in 3 minutes. “Children of incarcerated parents, including parents detained in relation to immigration, are a vulnerable population that experience complex long-term psychological, social and economic disadvantages.” So begins a...
Read MoreCons and Kernels 2: Laughter: The Ultimate Act of Defiance
This post is about 950 words and can be read in 3-4 minutes. By Emily O’Brien This is the second post about my experience with the criminal justice system. The first post is here. The pop star Bono coined the...
Read MoreSenate committee confirms major problems in Canadian prisons
This post is about 550 words and can be read in 2-3 minutes. For the past two years, the Senate Committee on Human Rights has been inquiring into “respect for the human rights of federally-sentenced persons in the federal correctional...
Read MoreReducing crime by supporting people after release
This post is about 100 words and can be read in about 5 minutes. Everybody wants a world in which there is less crime. That is why rehabilitation is one of the main official purposes of the criminal justice system. ...
Read MoreIntermittent Sentences Cause Big Problems in Quebec Jails
This post is about 800 words and can be read in 3-4 minutes. One result of the abolition by the previous federal government of conditional sentences (house arrest) for many crimes has been a significant increase in what are called...
Read MoreWalls to Bridges: The Positive Effect of Education in Prison
This post is about 900 words and will take 4-5 minutes to read. For many prisoners, education can be a key component of building a better life as well as making jail a less negative experience. Yet education opportunities have...
Read MoreSuicide in prisons: An international comparison
This post is 700 words and will take 3 minutes to read. Suicide rates among people in prison are dramatically higher than those in the general population, although this varies greatly among countries. This is the conclusion of a recent...
Read MoreWomen need health care to stay out of prison
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Patricia Jansen, Mo Korchinski, Ruth Elwood Martin, all from the University of British Columbia “What I have done is not who I am. Most of us are emotionally...
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