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Feds put up money to help crime victims
The funds will be used to keep two victim advocates working alongside domestic violence investigators in order to better connect victims with counselling, case management and support. The money will also help provide transportation and child-care services, and pay for a consultant to evaluate the effectiveness of the project… Statistics Canada’s latest figures show almost 95,000 people nationwide were victimized by domestic assault in 2011.
Tags: budget, corrections, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, multiculturalism, poverty
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Mr. Harper’s drug stance falls behind
If the Harper government needs more evidence it is heading in the wrong direction on marijuana laws, it was provided Monday by the U.S. attorney general, who conceded America’s drug laws have been a failure and have wrongly punished and injured millions of young people… The Conservatives are on the wrong course and the wrong side of history…
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, poverty, youth
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Ontario’s troubled youth deserve better care at Brampton superjail
… the Ontario government must take immediate action to transform an unpredictable and punitive jailhouse culture, especially when it enables certain staff to treat young people like hardened adult criminals. While some teens… have been toughened by years in street gangs, that doesn’t mean they can’t be reached… troubling is the shocking lack of programs for anger management, life counseling and substance abuse… to help inmates become functioning members of society.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, mental Health, youth
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What the premiers really want: A national partner
… the federal government says it prefers to stay out of provincial business (which makes all the more questionable its intrusive Canada Job Grant program). On occasion, it does engage in bilateral discussions with individual provinces on selected issues. But there is little sense of national with this national government… [Yet] Virtually all of the issues on the provincial list touch federal portfolios either directly or indirectly through their links to justice, transportation, communication and Aboriginal affairs.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, standard of living
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Aboriginal people still unequal
A new report compiled by the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC)… shows Canada’s aboriginal people: have lower median after-tax income; are more likely to collect employment insurance and social assistance; are more likely to experience physical, emotional or sexual abuse; are more likely to be victims of violent crimes; and are more likely to be incarcerated and less likely to be granted parole.
Tags: budget, corrections, housing, Indigenous, jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living
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Violence in Ontario jails must be stopped
Ontario ombudsman André Marin has exposed a series of violent acts against inmates by provincial correctional officers… cases that Marin says weren’t properly investigated or were simply covered up. Marin… wants rules and penalties to break the “code of silence” among guards. And the union wants the ministry to tackle the violence exacerbated by overcrowded and understaffed jails. Clearly, change is long overdue.
Tags: corrections, rights
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Federal crime legislation casts ‘dark shadow’ on principles of justice, Ontario judge says
A broad range of measures rooted in the desire to punish offenders are profoundly at odds with common law and a century of social science research into rehabilitation and recidivism… the federal provisions are driven by “an ideology of unabashed Puritanism, marketed through fear-mongering and the invidious exploitation of communal differences.” … These include the dismantling of the conditional sentencing regime, the eradication of pardons, and virtually automatic deportation orders for those convicted of minor offences.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology
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The Spirit Level Slides
The PowerPoint file… contains 38 of the more important graphs shown on this web site and/or published in The Spirit Level. We hope you will use them in talks, lectures or discussion groups to help increase people’s understanding of the effects of inequality. The slides (and the graphs contained within them) can be downloaded and used freely without permission, on condition you acknowledge their source: The Spirit Level, Wilkinson & Pickett, Penguin 2009.
Tags: child care, corrections, crime prevention, economy, featured, Health, standard of living
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Canada’s law-and-order agenda weighs heavily on aboriginal people
Mar 12 2013
… the aboriginal prison population has increased 43 per cent in the past five years. Métis, Inuit and First Nations people make up 23 per cent of the prison population, although they comprise just 4 per cent of the population of the country.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, Indigenous, poverty, standard of living
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Ontario must stop imprisonment by race
Mar 01 2013
The disproportionately high rates of incarceration of aboriginal and black youth is the disastrous outcome of complicated social problems. Deep poverty, family breakdown, lack of education and mental health issues, such as attention deficit disorder, need major interventions… many are given jail sentences, even when their crimes are no more serious than those who walk free.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, Indigenous, multiculturalism, poverty, rights, standard of living, youth
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