January 31, 2013 Toronto Star - Tonda MacCharles Stephen Harper: More tough-on-crime bills coming From 2010-2011, crime has fallen by 6%. In January, Vic Toews hosted a meeting trying to get policing costs under control: the costs have doubled … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2013
Mental health and criminal justice
January 30, 2013 International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy – Fifth National Symposium (January 2013) - Alison MacPhail and Simon Verdun-Jones Mental Illness and the Criminal Justice System While this paper excludes … [Read more...]
Major harms flow from the criminal prohibition of drugs
The Canadian Drug Policy Coalition, a drug policy reform group, has identified several of the major harms that flow from the criminal prohibition of drugs. Eugene Oscapella has drawn much of the material for the following list from its website, … [Read more...]
Yoga in jail?
January 27, 2013 The Good Men Project – Cameron Conaway Yoga should be included in the prison reform discussion Compared to weight lifting, yoga provides the same physical release but in a more contemplative way. Conaway thinks that yoga can … [Read more...]
Grosmaire raises the ante
January 21, 2013 NY Times examiner: David Belden Radical Compassion: Restorative Justice Program Meets Needs of Both Victims and Perpetrators The Grosmaire case first aired in the NY Times has been swirling around a considerable portion of the US … [Read more...]
Strategies to address the roots of youth violence
"Creating Positive Alternatives For Canadian Youth" is a seminal report from the Girls & Boys Clubs of Canada that outlines some of the key risk factors for youth violence as well as proven ways of mitigating them. … [Read more...]