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Don’t ignore the real issue on prostitution
Swedish legislators started from the premise that prostitution is only and ever a form of sexual violence and exploitation of vulnerable women, men and children. Rather than try to manage or control prostitution, they determined to abolish it, establishing legal and social measures that take aim at the roots of sexual exploitation… Targeting the demand has been demonstrated to be the most effective means of reducing rates of prostitution and sex trafficking.
Tags: crime prevention, featured, ideology, rights, women, youth
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What might it be like when pot is legal?
With 16 states having decriminalized or legalized cannabis for non-medical use and eight more heading toward some kind of legalization, federal prohibition’s days seem numbered. You might wonder what America will look like when marijuana is in the corner store and at the farmers market… Maybe fiscal conservatives know about the $35 billion in annual nationwide tax savings ending prohibition would bring.
Tags: crime prevention, economy, ideology, mental Health, standard of living, tax
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The art and science of giving it all away
… all the social ills we abhorred — poverty, family violence, addiction — stem from unwholesome conditions and influences kids face in the early stages of their lives. It followed, then, that if we want to produce a peaceful, prosperous society, we have to try to create a system where children are well-nurtured, well-cared-for, loved, touched and stimulated to meet the requirements of what we know they need for healthy development.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, philanthropy, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Federal report finds no link between poverty and radicalization of terrorists
… researchers in the area seem unequivocal in their conclusion that there is no link between economic factors and radicalization, and that many radicals are, in fact, economically advantaged compared to others… “Radicals are aware that their perspectives and actions differ from those of other people and they make a conscious decision to take that position and hide the fact from those who might threaten their liberty to do so. Radicalization is most likely a process that begins early and is always in action.”
Tags: crime prevention, economy, globalization, ideology, mental Health, poverty
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The Aboriginal population: younger and more troubled
Forty-nine per cent of First Nations people live on reserve, where education is provided by band councils using federal funds – and where other studies found that about 60 per cent fail to graduate…. lack of education is but one facet of the troubled lives of many aboriginals… “In order for the numbers to change, the government is going to have to address root causes such as poverty and discrimination…The focus cannot just be on education. It has to be broader than that.”
Tags: crime prevention, Health, homelessness, housing, Indigenous, mental Health, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Political expediency trumps First Nations issues
Problems go unaddressed, and bureaucrats in Ottawa treat these communities with remote detachment. The solution, from the colonial office’s perspective, has been to blame the victims. This approach was made crystal clear when Prime Minister Harper, by denigrating sociology, scoffed at people who look for root causes and underlying reasons for social problems… In a world of simple solutions… we find that First Nations issues are ignored today while the government’s ideological agenda and appeal to the Conservative party’s base forms its aboriginal policy.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, Indigenous, rights, women
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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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In defence of sociology
Hostility to expertise in all of its forms is the closest thing that Canadian conservatives have to a unifying ideology… Recent changes in Canadian criminal justice have served no productive purpose, other than promoting punishment for the sake of punishment and vengeance for the sake of vengeance. This may make some people feel better, but it does nothing to prevent crime. Criminologists are the ones with the data to prove this, so it’s no wonder they’re unpopular with the government.
Tags: crime prevention, featured, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Canadian values can thwart terror
… no one, even bleeding-heart leftists, denies the importance of intelligence-gathering and, in some cases, military intervention. But resisting terrorist activity by violence and the use of force without addressing the causes that bred such cowardly behaviour in the first place is a zero-sum game… history shows that violence begets violence… So let’s do this the Canadian way… [with] a national security policy that includes enhancing social cohesion by assisting vulnerable Canadian communities…
Tags: crime prevention, globalization, ideology, multiculturalism, participation
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Canadian tax cheats come clean amid close scrutiny of offshore havens
Wealthy Canadians with money stashed overseas have come forward in droves to confess their misdeeds after secret lists began circulating with the names of people apparently evading taxes in foreign banking havens. The Canada Revenue Agency has seen the number of voluntary disclosures of foreign, unreported income rise dramatically…
Tags: budget, crime prevention, economy, globalization, standard of living, tax
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