The administration of justice is an area of social policy that defies attempts to achieve a balance between order and the protection of the public and respect for individual rights. The media contain daily accounts of the failure of the criminal justice system to repress crime. It is within this social and legal context that this work is situated.
In addition to including a range of articles in the standard areas of policing, courts, and corrections, recent articles deal with such controversial issues as aboriginal justice, the recruitment of visible minorities by Canadian police forces, and the role of women in the Canadian criminal justice system. The collection concludes with a critical assessment of the retributive model that currently serves as the philosophical underpinnings of the Canadian criminal justice system.
1. A Social Systems Approach to Criminal Justice Research C. Boydell and I. Connidis
Policing
2. Visions of Community Policing: Rhetoric and Reality in Canada B.N. Leighton 3. Women in Canadian Urban Policing: Why Are They Leaving? B. Crawford Seagram and C. Stark-Adamec 4. Attitudes Toward Higher Education Among Mid-Career Officers L.B. Buckley 5. The Recruitment and Selection of Visible Minorities in Canadian Police Organizations: 1985 to 1987 Harish C. Jain 6. The Physical and Psychological Correlates of Job Burnout in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police G.M. Stearns and R. Moore
Courts
7. The Police, The Crowns and the Courts: Who’s Running the Show? G. Wheeler 8. Is There a Place for the Victim in the Prosecution Process? P. Clarke 9. Sentencing as a Gendered Process: Results of a Consultation R. Mohr 10. R. v. Brydges: Let Them Eat Cake or, the Poor Person’s Right to Counsel S.C. Hutchison and J. G. Marko 11. Public Attitudes to Plea Bargaining S. Cohen and A.N. Doob
The Corrections System
12. Risky Business: The Classification of Dangerous People in the Canadian Carceral Enterprise R. Menzies, D. Chunn and C. Webster 13. The Great Repression: Criminal Punishment in the Nineteen-Eighties Michael Mandel 14. Corrections and Community (In)Action K. McCormick and L. Visano 15. Bilateral Legitimation: The Parole Pendulum R. Ratner 16. Sentenced to Death? HIV Infection and AIDS in Prisons L.A. Pagliaro and A.M. Pagliaro 17. Working in a Man’s World: Women Correctional Officers in an Institution for Men E. Szockyj
Young People and the Law
18. The Young Offender’s Act: A Legal Framework N. Bala 19. Good People, Dirty System: The Young Offenders Act and Organizational Failure J. Hackler 20. Dispositions as Indicators of Conflicting Social Purposes under the JDA and YOA A.W. Leschied and P.G. Jaffe
Aboriginal Justice
21. Patterns of Discrimination: Aboriginal Justice in Canada C. Crow 22. Policing Native Communities: Some Principles and Issues in Organizational Theory R. Depew 23. The Role of Sntencing in the Over-representation of Aboriginal People in Correctional Institutions C. LaPrairie
Future Directions in Criminal Justice
24. From Big House to Big Brother: Confinement in the Future Ian Gomme 25. A Restorative Lens Howard Zehr
Biography
Nick Larsen teaches in the Department of Sociology at Chapman University, Orange, California. His major research interests include population control, criminal justice policy, women in criminal justice, and aboriginal justice. He is currently involved in ongoing research into the control of street prostitution in several large Canadian cities.
"Larsen has edited a very lively collection of recent articles on the Canadian criminal justice system. The book deals with many of the most pertinent issues in the areas of policing, courts, young people and the law and aboriginal justice."— Professor Rick Linden, University of Manitoba.
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