Posts Tagged ‘crime prevention’
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Shed light on abuse cases [seniors]
Friday, November 18th, 2011
Nov 17 2011
The 77,000 Ontarians who live in long-term care homes are some of our most vulnerable citizens. We cannot tolerate a culture of secrecy inside these homes. There are no “judgment calls” when it comes to reporting abuse. It is not acceptable to deal with problems internally. And staff should never be punished for speaking out… Ontario’s new inspection system is far better than what preceded it. But it relies on resident complaints…
Tags: crime prevention, privatization, rights, standard of living
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Mandatory reading on mandatory minimum sentences
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
Nov. 15, 2011
In Canada, the federal prison population rose by 1,000 to 14,500, in just 18 months, partly as a result of new mandatory minimums, a federal report found in August. At an average cost of $110,000 a year per inmate, the benefits would be questionable at any time – all the more so when economies nearly everywhere are at risk… the Canadian government… seems intent on following the failed U.S. model, even as that country beats a retreat.
Tags: budget, corrections, crime prevention, ideology
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Canada must address the crisis faced by aboriginal children
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
November 07, 2011
… the council of advocates and UNICEF Canada support another report done by the Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children. Key among its recommendations are: developing a rights-based lens for reviewing and amending provincial and federal legislation; establishing systematic monitoring of legislation and programs; abandoning proposed changes to the juvenile justice act. The justice act changes will have their greatest effect on aboriginal youth. Shockingly, as the advocates note, an aboriginal youth is more likely to be sentenced to youth custody than to graduate from high school.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, Indigenous, poverty, rights, standard of living, youth
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CASW Asking for Balance on Crime and Punishment Legislation
Monday, November 7th, 2011
November 7, 2011
“Social workers are respecfully appealing to Prime Minister Harper to lift the 100 day self-imposed timetable for passing C-10, retract the bill, and to reintroduce its component parts next session so that each can be debated on their own merits”… “Victims justly require protection, support and justice; let us honour them by not creating a system that, as an unintended consequence, creates more victims that it supports.”
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, participation
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Tough but not smart on crime
Monday, November 7th, 2011
Nov 06 2011
There are three problems with the suggestion that offending by youths (or adults) can be reduced by imposing harsher sentences. First, decades of research has demonstrated that harsher sentences for youths (or adults) do not reduce reoffending. Nor would harsher sentences deter others. These are not ideological statements; they are based on evidence from numerous studies. The results are quite consistent: one cannot punish away crime.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, youth
Posted in Child & Family Policy Context | 2 Comments »
Omnibus crime bill ignores the true victims
Monday, November 7th, 2011
Nov 7, 2011
There is no evidence that women are not reporting because sentencing is too low. In a Department of Justice Study, female sexual assault victims were asked what they would do to fix the system and few said toughen sentencing. Most said stop blaming the victim, provide women with more support, invest in more prevention. A few even talked about treatment for offenders and centres for men who were victimized as children. None of that will be accomplished by this bill.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, rights, standard of living
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Tough-on-crime bill toughest on taxpayers
Sunday, November 6th, 2011
Nov. 4, 2011
Even if Canada never reaches the startling levels of U.S. incarceration (with less than 5% of the global population, it is home to 25% of the world’s prisoners), for every new prisoner created by the Harper government’s toughon-crime bill, and for every year the new laws add to a prisoner’s sentence, there will be impacts to not just the cost of prisons and courts, but even more lingering strains on provincial health and social program budgets.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, standard of living, tax
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There is no crime epidemic
Friday, November 4th, 2011
Nov. 04, 2011
A recent thorough study of homicides by Tina Hotton Mahony of Statistics Canada lays all the facts before Canadians. It’s too bad – indeed, it’s a tragedy – that these sorts of facts have no influence on the Harper government’s expensive and counterproductive, politically motivated “tough on crime” agenda… this is the government that abolished the long-form census, the method every statistician here and abroad said would produce the most accurate facts. In that file, as in criminal justice and others, it’s a government that either looks simple facts in the face and denies them, or willfully disregards them.
Tags: budget, corrections, crime prevention, featured, ideology
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Gun control keeps suicides down
Friday, October 28th, 2011
Oct 27 2011
Most firearm deaths in Canada are suicides (over 75 per cent). Only 24 per cent are homicides. Suicides in Canada will go up if the Prime Minister isn’t careful about what he repeals… gun control supporters like me may have placed too much focus on gun crime itself… Suicides dropped dramatically in Canada thanks to the federal gun registry… suicide is not about good guys and bad guys… With a gun, a suicide attempt is almost always a suicide.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, mental Health, rights
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Harper’s crime bill needs cost-effective prevention
Monday, October 24th, 2011
Oct. 24, 2011
Parliament should add a Crime Reduction Board to the government’s omnibus crime bill… Public Safety Canada provides a website with examples of effective precrime prevention programs that have stopped crime before citizens became victims, but these are not yet being used from coast to coast… If the federal government matched every additional dollar for prisons with another dollar for prevention and victim rights, Canada would become one of the safest countries in the world – and cost-effectively!
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, standard of living, youth
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