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Funding, reforms to abuse program concerns women’s issues experts
PAR programs are used as a tool to hold lower-risk or first-time offenders accountable for their actions when there is a low chance of conviction, and provide support for and aim to reduce harm for victims… agencies and experts in domestic violence from across the province had written group letters to the ministry complaining the program is in “crisis.” … The cut in the length of the program… was made without research on potential outcomes, including the impact on the safety of women and children.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, Health, ideology, mental Health, women
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Tory budget surplus came at cost to public safety ‘
The Harper government has aggressively deregulated, devolving ever-more freedom to companies to make their own judgments of risk versus profits. The new company-led Safety Management System was supposed to complement traditional regulatory oversight, but without adequate regulatory resources, the companies were effectively regulating themselves… Is it worth government compromising its responsibility to protect the public for the sake of a trivial and – most economists agree – meaningless budgetary surplus?
Tags: budget, crime prevention, economy, ideology, privatization, standard of living, tax
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Affordable housing: A crippling crisis with an obvious solution
Such a prolonged shortage translates into a workforce insufficiently skilled to make Canada thrive in a fiercely competitive global economy. It accounts for a population whose health falls short… And it imposes an expense on Canadian taxpayers in ever rising healthcare costs. It accounts in large degree for higher-than-average crime rates among selected population groups. It imposes a social tax, measured in both dollars and diminished peace of mind, the enormity of which is only hinted at by the expense of our criminal-justice system.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, Health, homelessness, housing, Indigenous, jurisdiction, mental Health, poverty, standard of living
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Women’s issues missing from election campaign
… issues of specific interest to women have yet to hit the radar of the three major party leaders. It’s not clear why women’s issues are so invisible since half a million more women than men cast a ballot in the last election. Among the “asks” the organizers made of party leaders: – To address the root causes of violence against women in Canada. – To act on women’s economic inequality… – To re-invest in organizations and institutions that champion justice and equality for women.
Tags: budget, child care, crime prevention, ideology, poverty, standard of living, women
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We can’t afford to make cuts to drug court
The Toronto Drug Treatment Court may be the best thing we do…. [It’s] an alternative to jail for those who get nailed on drug or drug-related charges; instead of going to the slammer, men and women get a chance to choose treatment… it helps men and women break the cycle of drugs, crime and the law; it saves money by cutting the cost of enforcement; it keeps the city safer by reducing certain kinds of crime; oh, and it saves lives. We should be doubling and redoubling our efforts. And yet we are forced to cut back.
Tags: budget, corrections, crime prevention, ideology, mental Health, standard of living
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Stop criminalizing mental illness
… the urgent message in Unlocking Change: Decriminalizing Mental Health Issues in Ontario, a powerful and forward-looking new report from the John Howard Society of Ontario. It calls on… government to invest far more heavily in community-based and clinical mental health care as the province rolls out the next phase of a 10-year strategy to help people with mental illness. “The justice system should not be seen as the first viable access point for treatment”
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, disabilities, featured, Health, ideology, mental Health, standard of living
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The Swedish sex-work model is a success
… the Swedish model – because it targets buyers rather than sellers – curbs the demand for purchased sex, which is the key driver behind sex trafficking… While punishing only buyers and not sellers of sex is the right approach, it is apparent that we have not provided enough assistance to individuals in prostitution in terms of housing, education, health care and a way out of the sex industry… After all, the purpose of the model is to protect vulnerable individuals
Tags: crime prevention, globalization, Health, ideology, immigration, poverty, rights, women
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Ontario justice system ‘punishes’ mental illness
The 1960s deinstitutionalization movement arose out of the belief that patients would be better served in the community, but it led to the mass closure of psychiatric beds without a corresponding investment in social supports such as housing and mental health treatment. The movement spurred a troubling and unintended consequence: an increase in encounters between the mentally ill and police… Now jails have replaced asylums as repositories for people who don’t have adequate resources to cope with community living
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, disabilities, featured, homelessness, ideology, mental Health, poverty, standard of living
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At last, a success story at Toronto Community Housing
… the building, with 132 bachelor apartments housing almost exclusively single men, many of whom struggle with addictions and mental health problems, is now a bright example of turnaround tactics.
The reversal of fortune was fueled in part by the agency spending $719,000 on repairs and maintenance and hiring a security guard and cleaner… But what really changed things for the better was having two social service agencies set up in the lobby…
Tags: budget, crime prevention, Health, housing, ideology, mental Health, participation, poverty
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Stephen Harper’s empty promises to victims of crime
… for a person to have a right there must be a legal remedy for any violation that is enforceable in court. The new legislation does not provide for this… calling a statute or even a constitutional amendment a “bill of rights” for victims will achieve next to nothing without clearly articulated legal remedies. Likewise, the ambiguous Ontario Victims’ Bill of Rights has been shown to have no legal teeth.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, jurisdiction
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