Posts Tagged ‘crime prevention’
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Ottawa’s cuts to young offender programs are short-sighted and costly
Sunday, July 8th, 2012
July 06, 2012
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government has slashed funding for programs that help keep young offenders out of jail and able to make something of their lives… This $36-million cut was not highlighted in the recent federal budget. It was not discussed with the agencies that provide these important services to troubled youth. Provincial ministers, who are the federal government’s partners in keeping Canada safe, were not consulted. The cut was made public last week in an announcement masquerading as good news.
Tags: budget, corrections, crime prevention, ideology, youth
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Crime, victim
Friday, June 29th, 2012
June 29, 2012
Research by the Centre for Race and Culture indicates that immigrants and non-white people (racialized) do not commit more crime than mainstream Canadians with similar life circumstances… Crime is higher for those who are unemployed, have low levels of education, come from single parent families, or live in poverty. These are all exacerbated by the discrimination that immigrant, refugee, and aboriginal people experience. Why do racialized people consistently receive a lower quality of education, and have a more difficult time finding employment and income levels that are commensurate with their education and experience?
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, immigration, Indigenous, multiculturalism, poverty
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The wrong decision on assisted suicide
Tuesday, June 19th, 2012
Jun 18, 2012
Justice Lynn Smith determined that the ban against assisted suicide serves to discriminate against the disabled — and therefore runs afoul of the equality provisions in section 15 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms — because it prevents disabled people from getting the help they may need to kill themselves. But the Charter is meant to defend us against violations perpetrated by the state, not abet self-inflicted injuries or death.
Tags: crime prevention, disabilities, ideology, mental Health, rights, standard of living
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CHRC… more relevant than ever
Tuesday, June 19th, 2012
Jun 19, 2012
Of the 1,914 human rights complaints under the federal Act in 2011, only one complaint regarding hate on the Internet was given consideration. The overwhelming majority of complaints deal with allegations of discrimination on the grounds of disability or age… Today, more than 10% of the human rights complaints received by the Canadian Human Rights Commission are from aboriginal people. Such a surge is reasonable to expect, after decades of neglect.
Tags: crime prevention, disabilities, Indigenous, participation, rights, standard of living
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Canada’s bail system is working just fine
Monday, June 18th, 2012
Jun 17, 2012
Reasonable bail is a right guaranteed to all Canadians by our constitution… Only when release is opposed by the Crown is a bail hearing held… Since bail hearings take place shortly after arrest, and often before police investigations are complete, much that is said in a bail hearing later turns out to be false. Justices of the Peace on bail hearings have to work with limited and contradictory information; it is hardly surprising that errors are occasionally made.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, rights
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Courting disaster? The long, long wait for justice in Ontario
Saturday, June 9th, 2012
Jun 9, 2012
Despite efforts by the provincial Ministry of the Attorney-General to speed up the criminal court system, which receives more than half a million charges in dozens of courthouses annually, persistent backlogs continue to fuel frustration among lawyers, judges, accused persons and members of the public. This month marks the deadline for the ministry’s four-year push to slash by 30% the average number of appearances and days required to complete a criminal case, but the latest numbers show the province has achieved barely a fraction of that goal, reducing appearances by about 6% and days by about 1%.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, rights, standard of living
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No more second chances for offenders in Ontario
Saturday, June 9th, 2012
Jun 07 2012
Last year, approximately 75,000 prisoners were released into Ontario’s population. The number will climb when Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s multi-part crime bill, approved in March, is fully implemented. Approximately half of these newly released inmates will come out of jail with mental health or addiction problems. A third will be homeless. Many won’t know how to apply for welfare, cook for themselves, navigate the social service system, replace lost identity documents or manage their anger. Most won’t have the skills they need to get a job… Now the province must pay the price:
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, rights, standard of living, youth
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A roundup of the usual child-poverty suspects
Tuesday, June 5th, 2012
June 4, 2012
Poverty is about more than material deprivation. It also involves exclusion from participating in many aspects of society and considerable stress… child poverty leads to poorer educational outcomes… Reducing child poverty will increase the number of skilled workers available… poverty produces real economic costs… reducing childhood poverty is both an important health promotion and an important crime-control strategy. Our governments tend to ignore the economic benefits and argue the costs of poverty reduction are too high. That is bad economics.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, economy, featured, Health, ideology, poverty, standard of living, youth
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‘Time and punishment’ now Canada’s way
Saturday, May 19th, 2012
May. 18, 2012
Corrections – the idea that those in prison might be assisted while incarcerated to be better prepared for life outside jail – is apparently foreign to the Harper government. Instead, it wants to put more people away for longer, then, figuratively speaking, throw away the key. Punishment is in; correction is out. Just when you think this government’s criminal justice policies, which have been almost universally denounced by experts in the field, can’t get worse, they do.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology
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Ontario openly defies Vic Toews over gun registry despite new RCMP warning
Sunday, May 13th, 2012
May 11, 2012
“We’re not going to adopt a long-gun registry here in Ontario,” McGuinty said… “But we will maintain a practice that’s been in place since 1978… if your intention was to not only eliminate the long-gun registry but a pre-existing practice, I think you need to make that clear.”… the chief firearms officer of the Ontario Provincial Police interprets section 58 of the Firearms Act as giving him the power to impose that requirement.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, rights
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