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This book provides an overview of the dominant philosophical approaches and practices in handling status offenders--those children who habitually resist the control of their parents and schools, who run away from home, who drink and stay out after curfew. The three...
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Oxford University Press
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1997-06-12
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Sentencing and corrections issues are much the same in every Western country and increasingly efforts are being made to import policies and practices that have succeeded elsewhere. This volume brings together articles on sentencing reform in the United States, other...
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Oxford University Press
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1997-04-24
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The Habits of Legality provides a broad survey of American criminal justice in a time of troubles. It asks the central questions: In what degree are the justice system's functions guided by ascertainable legal norms? How accountable are public officials who wield the...
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Oxford University Press
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1996-03-21
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Police do not and cannot prevent crime. This alarming thesis is explored by David Bayley, one of the most prolific and internationally renowned authorities on criminal justice and policing, inPolice for the Future. Providing a systematic assessment of the performance of...
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Oxford University Press
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1996-03-07
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Police do not and cannot prevent crime. This alarming thesis is explored by David Bayley, one of the most prolific and internationally renowned authorities on criminal justice and policing, inPolice for the Future. Providing a systematic assessment of the performance of...
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Oxford University Press
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1996-03-07
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Michael Tonry, an internationally recognized authority on criminology, offers in these pages a comprehensive overview of current research, policy developments, and practical experiences concerning sentencing and sanctions. He examines the effects of increased penalties...
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Oxford University Press
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1996-01-18
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The one, sure way that imprisonment prevents crime is by restraining offenders from committing crimes while they are locked up. Called "incapacitation" by experts in criminology, this effect has become the dominant justification for imprisonment in the United States,...
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Oxford University Press
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1995-02-09
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Drawing on a wealth of local, national and international sources, unpublished documents and original research, this book provides a theoretical and practical critique of victimology.
The authors outline and discuss the issues facing victims today and address the...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1994-01-01
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This book examines case studies of recent prison riots in five states, including the 1971 radical uprising in Attica, New York, and the infamous 1981 bloodbath at the New Mexico Penitentiary. The most extensive and detailed work yet written on US prison riots, the...
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Oxford University Press
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1991-07-18
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American prisons and jails are overflowing with inmates. To relieve the pressure, courts have imposed fines on overcrowded facilities and fiscally strapped governments have been forced to release numerous prisoners prematurely. In this study, noted criminologist Charles...
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Oxford University Press
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1990-07-26
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Who knows more about a business's shady practices than the people who work there? In this pioneering study, Paul Blumberg examines a wide variety of evidence, including over 600 accounts written by workers who disclose in elaborate detail the deceptions their employers...
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Oxford University Press
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1989-03-09
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Crime doesn’t happen in a vacuum, but in the complex world we all live in. In Troubling Criminology, professors Michael C. K. Ma and Mike Larsen untangle the discipline of criminology in a series of insightful conversations. Rather than presenting a fixed canon of...
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Between the Lines
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2025-10-14
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For over forty years, William Head on Stage (WHoS) has operated as an inmate-run prison theatre, making it one of Canada’s longest-standing prison arts initiatives.Staging Prison Theatre in Canada: Setting the Spotlight on William Head on Stage delves into the story of...
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University of Ottawa Press
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2025-04-01
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Contemporary Criminological Issues: Moving Beyond Insecurity and Exclusion tackles some of today’s most pressing social issues—from the criminalization of Indigenous peoples to interpersonal violence, border control, and armed conflicts—,advances cutting-edge theories...
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University of Ottawa Press
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2020-05-05
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Releasing Hope was born out of the first book Arresting Hope,
which describes participatory health research and the experience of
women incarcerated inside a British Columbian provincial correctional
centre from 2005 to 2007. Readers of Arresting Hope, moved by the
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Inanna Publications
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2019-10-15
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Discussing illegal drugs without taking into account its criminal context is a difficult proposition. Certain questions come back repeatedly: Does doing drugs really lead to delinquency? Do some drugs have criminal properties? Why would a drug addict turn to crime? What...
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University of Ottawa Press
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2018-03-13
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At least one in four women attending college or university will be sexually assaulted by the time they graduate. Beyond this staggering statistic, recent media coverage of “rape chants” at Saint Mary’s University, misogynistic Facebook posts from Dalhousie University’s...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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2017-08-13
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A compelling personal memoir and a scathing indictment of bureaucratic indifference and agenda-driven government policies.In his thirty years in the Canadian prison system, Robert Clark rose from student volunteer to deputy warden. He worked with some of Canada's most...
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Goose Lane Editions
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2017-05-16
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In Human on the Inside Gary Garrison takes readers out of their comfort zones and into some of Canada's most notorious and violent prisons, introducing us to a menacing yet vibrant subculture of inmates, guards, and staff.
Through personal stories, Garrison illuminates...
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U of R Press
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2015-02-28
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Arresting Hope reminds us that prisons are not only places
of punishment, marginalization, and trauma, but that they can also be
places of hope, blessing even, where people with difficult lived
experiences can begin to compose stories full of healing, anticipation,...
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Inanna Publications
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2014-10-15
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