Posts Tagged ‘crime prevention’
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We know police can’t solve the root causes of Toronto gun violence. What’s stopping us from doing what can?
Saturday, December 19th, 2020
Invest early in terms of education, child supports, health, daycare — try holistic approaches to decrease poverty and disparate outcomes for Black, Indigenous and other racialized groups — and you’ll not only improve lives, but you’ll also save money. On health care, on police, on courts, on jails.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, ideology, Indigenous, multiculturalism, participation, poverty, youth
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Supreme Court sends signal to appellate courts on sexual assault rulings
Monday, December 14th, 2020
… the Supreme Court has sent a message to appellate courts that they should listen to lower-court judges who believe the complainant… Assessments of credibility (honesty) and reliability (accuracy) are central to the trial judge’s job. Appeal courts generally defer to these assessments because it is the trial judge who sits in court and hears directly from the witnesses. Witnesses do not testify at appeal courts.
Tags: crime prevention, disabilities, rights, women
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What if we were as serious about ending violence as ending the pandemic?
Tuesday, December 8th, 2020
At the beginning of the lockdowns, women found it difficult to flee their abusers; as lockdowns eased and they returned to shelters, workers noticed an escalation in the severity of violence they were reporting – more broken bones, more strangulation, more sexual violence… If this year has taught us anything, it’s our ability to work collectively to end a public health crisis. But we have to open our eyes first.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, ideology, mental Health, women
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In 2020, the anniversary of the Montreal Massacre is a call to action
Sunday, December 6th, 2020
Now it’s time to move forward on a Canada-wide action plan that makes gender-based violence a national priority. Reflecting on lives lost to preventable violence is important. But the greatest way to honour stolen lives is through concrete action.
Tags: crime prevention, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, women
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Ontario’s family law takes a step forward in protecting the vulnerable
Saturday, November 28th, 2020
The new definition in the Children’s Law Reform Act (CLRA) uses the language of coercive and controlling behaviour and includes sexual, psychological and financial abuse as well as threats of or actual harm to animals among the behaviours considered to be family violence. It also makes explicit that conduct need not constitute a criminal offence for it to be considered in a family law proceeding.
Tags: crime prevention, jurisdiction, mental Health, women, youth
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The Minister of Health should do the right thing and decriminalize drug possession
Tuesday, November 24th, 2020
Criminalization has never been shown to minimize drug use, nor does it advance the pursuit of care, if needed. It may trigger a series of consequences and pathways that rarely help the individual, let alone promote public interest. The most pressing needs of people who depend on substance use are not met by the criminal justice system… Criminalization should not be justified as an alternative to the shortfall in services to support people with complex requirements to restore their well-being.
Tags: crime prevention, disabilities, Health, ideology, jurisdiction
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RCMP union opposes Ottawa’s plan to ban certain semi-automatic rifles
Tuesday, November 24th, 2020
… the group wants Ottawa to dedicate funding to the RCMP Border Integrity Program to investigate and dismantle gun-smuggling rings, and the Canadian Firearms Program, which it says lacks the resources “to provide effective gun crime tracing and enforcement units.” … The paper highlights the role of illegal handguns – rather than legal rifles – in rising national gun violence.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, ideology, jurisdiction, rights
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Mandatory minimum penalties are preventing judges from arriving at just sentences
Friday, November 20th, 2020
Courts have ruled some mandatory minimums unconstitutional, but that is not an acceptable substitute for justice reform. The COVID pandemic has emphasized that good leadership requires putting politics aside and listening to evidence and expert advice that serves the public interest… Sound justice policy can and should protect public safety, address systemic racism and support fair and just results for all.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, Indigenous
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Unions shouldn’t defend the indefensible
Thursday, October 29th, 2020
… we need more unionization. When you encounter trouble at work — which will happen at badly managed workplaces — someone has to have your back, and that’s the union. But perhaps unions have to shift their frames a little. Some have fallen into a ludicrous Trumpish trap that everything is either black or white. Not true. There are shades of grey. Unions shouldn’t defend the indefensible.
Tags: crime prevention, economy, ideology
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‘Dehumanizing, counterproductive, unlawful’ – Canada’s correctional system resists all attempts at reform
Monday, October 26th, 2020
… despite many calls for reform [the correctional system] remains steeped in an archaic cultural mindset, focusing on punishing prisoners instead of preparing them for a safer and healthier future. The resulting living conditions, long denounced by experts as dehumanizing, counterproductive and unlawful, are still allowed to continue.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, disabilities, featured
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