Criminal Justice in Canada: A Reader, 6th Edition
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Criminal Justice in Canada: A Reader, 6th Edition

Julian Roberts, Michelle Grossman
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Criminal Justice in Canada: A Reader explores key and controversial topics in the Canadian Criminal Justice system. The text gives voice to participants from all aspects of the criminal justice system, including readings from a judge, a defense attorney, a Crown attorney, probation officer, police officer, as well as a life prisoner. It also offers essays on current issues in criminal justice and encourages students to debate and think critically about hot topics such as racial discrimination in the criminal court system or plea-bargaining. The essays, commissioned and carefully edited by University of Oxford’s Julian V. Roberts, provide a balance between academics, practitioners, and activists—all experts in their field.
 
All chapters have actual cases, practical examples, and discussion questions to maintain a practical focus throughout, and to facilitate classroom use. New to this edition are essays on:

  • Criminal Justice Responses to People with Mental Illnesses

  • Corporate Crime in the Workplace

  • Domestic Violence

  • Indigenous Over-Incarceration

  • Race, Ethnicity, and Criminal Justice Statistics

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ISBN
978-1-77412-952-4
Page Count
262
Publisher
Tophat 4
Publication Date
April 2020
Status
Available
Subjects
Criminal Justice
Tags
Higher Education Criminal Justice and Criminology

  • Discussion questions for each reading.

  • Contributions from experts from key players in the criminal justice system, including a judge, a Crown attorney, a probation officer, and a prisoner.

PART 1: Introductory Readings
Chapter 1: Introduction to Criminal Justice in Canada (Julian V. Roberts—University of Oxford)
Chapter 2: Criminal Justice and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Marie Manikis—McGill University)
Chapter 3: A Portrait of the System: Criminal Justice Trends (Andrew A. Reid—Douglas College)
Chapter 4: The Funhouse Mirror: Media Representations of Crime and Justice (Peter McKnight—Vancouver Sun) 

PART 2: Voices of Participants in the Criminal Justice System
Chapter 5: Scenes from the Life of a Police Officer (Michael Waby—Ministry of the Attorney General of Ontario)
Chapter 6: For the Prosecution: The Crown Attorney (Lia Di Giulio—Crown Counsel)
Chapter 7: The Role of the Defence Counsel (Jordana H. Goldlist—Defence Counsel)
Chapter 8: A Day in the Life of a Judge: The Guilty Plea (Court Judge Gilles Renaud—Ontario Court of Justice)
Chapter 9: Helping Victims and Witnesses: The Victim Witness Assistance Program (VWAP) (Jennifer Strasberg—Crown Counsel)
Chapter 10: The Probation Officer’s Report (Karen Middlecoat—Probation and Parole)
Chapter 11: A Life Prisoner’s Perspective (Rick Sauve—Prisoners’ Rights Activist)

PART 3: Key Issues in Criminal Justice
Chapter 12: The Wrongful Conviction of William Mullins (Johnson Kathryn M. Campbell—University of Ottawa)
Chapter 13: Who’s Policing the Police? (Chris Giacomantonio)
Chapter 14: Negotiating the Guilty Plea (Simon Verdun-Jones—Simon Fraser University)
Chapter 15: Criminal Justice Responses to People with Mental Illnesses (James D. Livingston—St. Mary's University)
Chapter 16: Drugs and the Criminal Justice System (Eugene Oscapella—University of Ottawa)
Chapter 17: Justice in Error: Wrongful Convictions in Canada (Kathryn M. Campbell—University of Ottawa and Myriam Denov—McGill University)
Chapter 18: Young People in Custody (Carla Cesaroni—Ontario Tech University)
Chapter 19: Crime Victims and the Justice System (Susan McDonald—Research and Statistics Division, Department of Justice Canada and Michelle G. Grossman)
Chapter 20: Criminal (In)Justice: Responding to Corporate Crime in the Workplace (Steven Bittle—University of Ottawa)
Chapter 21: Domestic Violence: Exploring the Zero Tolerance Approach (Rashmee Singh—University of Waterloo)
Chapter 22: Criminal Justice and Indigenous Canadians (Savvas Lithopoulos—Public Safety Canada and Rick Ruddell—University of Regina)
Chapter 23: Indigenous Over-Incarceration: The Criminal Justice Problem that Won’t Go Away (Julian V. Roberts—University of Oxford and Andrew A. Reid—Douglas College)
Chapter 24: Race, Ethnicity, and Criminal Justice Statistics (Akwasi Owusu-Bempah—University of Toronto and Paul Miller—Nipissing University)
Chapter 25: Responding to Intimate Partner Violence (Gillian Blackell—Department of Justice Canada and Holly Johnson)
Chapter 26: Electronic Monitoring: Perceptions of Professionals and Offenders (Ashley Willoughby and Mike Nellis—University of Strathclyde)
Chapter 27: Prisoners’ Rights in Canada (Shereen H. Benzvy Miller)
Chapter 28: Home Alone: The Conditional Sentence of Imprisonment (Julian V. Roberts—University of Oxford)

Chapter 1: Introduction to Criminal Justice in Canada (Julian V. Roberts—University of Oxford)


“I am a big proponent of this book, and feel that in its current form it is the most useful introductory text on the market.”

—Michael Kempa,
UOttawa



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