Jan 12, 2024 – Restorative practices in climate change…

Smart Justice Network Jan 12, 2024 – Restorative practices in climate change…   Medriva.com A Restorative Pathway: The Bold New Approach to Tackling Climate Change A group of researchers from Oregon State University have a novel but … [Read more...]

Curbing violence…

Jan 11, 2023  Toronto Star – Jeffrey Bradley and Irwin Waller Public safety comes from curbing violence, not just reacting to it - Smart investment in tackling the root causes of violence reduces the need for police responses after the fact. We … [Read more...]

Smorgasbord…

Oct 20, 2022 University of Toronto / Criminological Highlights - Anthony Doob, Rosemary Gartner, Maria Jung, Tyler King, Jane Sprott, and Audrey Macklin. This issue of Criminological Highlights addresses the following questions, all very much in … [Read more...]

Prime Aggregator

July 17, 2022  Criminological Highlights – Anthony Doob and Rosemary Gartner, U of T This June’s issue of the informative papers is burdened with news that the federal Department of Justice subsidy of approximately one quarter of the real costs of … [Read more...]

Sapers and Doob back…

July 25, 2021   Globe and Mail – Kristy Kirkup and Patrick White Former correctional investigator Howard Sapers to chair federal advisory panel on prisoner isolation In an apparent effort to salvage the mess the federal government made with the … [Read more...]

Follow the money…

April 20, 2021 Department of Finance: Budget 2021: A Recovery Plan for Jobs, Growth, and Resilience https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2021/04/budget-2021-a-recovery-plan-for-jobs-growth-and-resilience.html CBC News Highlights of … [Read more...]

Phone calls…

Feb. 12, 2021 –  TVO.org – Marsha McLeod Broken telephone: How Ontario’s prison-phone system leaves inmates disconnected - ANALYSIS: Here’s how the phone system works, who profits — and what advocates say needs to change A year ago, the Ontario … [Read more...]

Terms…

March 20, 2020 (Ed Note: In a recently published work, Zach Norris (We keep Us Safe: Building Secure, Just and Inclusive Communities: Beacon Press, Boston, Mass, 2020) offers two appropriate thoughts as a perspective of community safety.  One, … [Read more...]

RJ coming of age?

Mar 26, 2018 Department of Justice: (March 2018)   A Report on Provincial and Territorial Stakeholder Consultations What we heard - Transforming Canada's criminal justice system While not yet the policy of the federal government, this report … [Read more...]

Justice reform…

Jan 31, 2018 Toronto Star – Daniel Brown and Michael Lacy Trudeau government is falling short on justice reform Anticipating the strategy for the next federal election, some think the Liberals will offer promises made, promises delivered.  Brown … [Read more...]