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Bousfield, Kate N., Alana N. Cook and Ronald Roesch. (2014).“Evidence-Based Criminal Justice Policy for Canada: An Exploratory Study of Public Opinion and the Perspective of Mental Health and Legal Professionals” in Canadian Psychology, 55(3): pp. 204–215.
The purpose of the current research was to compare public opinion with the opinions of mental health and legal professionals prior to and after the presentation of evidence, including academically recognized social science research, to examine whether exposure to empirical evidence would change public opinions of justice policy.
Brignall, Richard (2015) REAL JUSTICE A Police Mr. Big Sting Goes Wrong: The Story of Kyle Unger. Toronto, ON: Lorimar.
This book tells the story of an innocent teenager Kyle Unger who was wrongfully convicted based on the controversial Mr. Big police tactic and spent 14 years in prison before finally being released in 2005after his conviction was overturned.
Dawe, M., & Goodman, P. (2017). Conservative Politics, Sacred Cows, and Sacrificial Lambs: The (Mis)Use of Evidence in Canada’s Political and Penal Fields. Canadian Review of Sociology, 54(2), 129–146.
The authors examine the federal government’s justifications for its decision to cancel Canada’s prison farm program. They argue that developments within the penal field are deeply intertwined with activities within the political field—and are more clearly understood when situated within the broader context of politics, science, and the strategic (mis)use of evidence.
Fortner, Michael Javen. (2015). “Beyond Criminal Justice Reform” in Dissent, 62(4): pp.51–53.
This article explores the new age of criminal justice reform and discusses how “today’s reformers are preoccupied with police and penitentiaries, and blind to the painful experiences that gave punitive approaches purpose and urgency.”
Graves, Shannon M. (2015). “Correctional Mission Statements as Indicators of the Criminal Justice Policy Environment: A Research Note” in Criminal Justice Policy Review, 26(5): pp.488–499.
This study provides the original results of a content analysis of 49 state correctional department mission statements as a means of exploring the present day focus of correctional institutions.
Hodgkinson, T., & Farrell, G. (2018). Situational crime prevention and Public Safety Canada’s crime-prevention programme. Security Journal, 31(1), 325–342.
In this article the authors examine the crime prevention strategies undertaken by Canada's National Crime Prevention Centre (NCPC). They explain that the social development approach to crime prevention used by the Centre which focuses largely on small pilot projects that work with at-risk youth may not be an optimal strategy for all crime preventions in Canada.
Johnson, Devon, Patricia Y. Warren and Amy Farrell (ed.’s). (2015). Deadly Injustice: Trayvon Martin, Race, and the Criminal Justice System. New York: New York University Press.
This book uses the Martin/Zimmerman case as a springboard to examine race, crime, and justice in our current criminal justice system.
Roberts, Julian V. and Michelle G. Grossman. (2016). Criminal Justice in Canada: A Reader. Toronto, ON: Nelson Education.
This reader contains a widely diverse selection of largely original readings on the Canadian criminal justice system
Sabol, William J. (May 2016). “Commentary: Could Linked Data Help Us to Better Understand the Macrolevel Consequences of Mass Imprisonment” in Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 665(1): pp.213–221.
This is a commentary on articles by L. Andersen; Wakefield and Powell; and Berger and colleagues.
Smith, Peter Scharff. (2015). “Reform and Research: Re-Connecting Prison and Society in the 21st Century” in International Journal for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy, 4(1): pp.33–49.
Here, the author outlines some of the historical and current trends in prison research and question how a prison researcher can work towards influencing policy and practice.
CASES CITED
Goodwin v British Columbia (Superintendent of Motor Vehicles), 2015 SCC 46