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Bernier, Jennifer. (2010-2011). “Breaking Down the Walls: Building a Case for Community-Based Alternatives to Incarceration That Better Meet the Needs of Criminalized Women” in Network Magazine of the Canadian Women’s Health Network, 13(1): pp. 13–17.
This article attempts to address the gap of knowledge concerning what it is like for women to be housed in provincial facilities or their experiences of returning to the community.
Campbell, M. E. (2014). What Happened to Canada? Journal of Community Corrections, 23(4), 9–21.
The author examines the factors at play in what she describes as Canada’s fall from grace in institutional and community corrections. The author argues that the ‘get tough on crime’ ideology trumped evidence-based policies and fair, humane, and effective legislation was scorned by politicians.
Brintnell, E. S., Sawhney, A. S., Bailey, P. G., Nelson, M., Pike, A. D., & Wielandt, P. (2019). Corrections and Connection to the Community: A diagnostic and service program for incarcerated adult men with FASD. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 64, 8–17.
The Corrections and Connections to the Community research and service program was established to examine adult male offenders with frequent contact with the provincial corrections system.The findings of this study emphasize the importance of appropriate programming and services for incarcerated men with FASD.
Evans, Donald G. 2019. “Getting Out and Staying Out: The Returning Citizen’s Challenge.” Journal of Community Corrections 28 (4): 4–30.
The author of this article reflects on his interactions and observations of case managers and their community corrections clients at the Crossroads Day Reporting Center in Toronto
Labrecque, Ryan M., Jennifer D. Luther, Paula Smith, Edward J. Latessa. (2014). “Responding to the Needs of Probation and Parole: The Development of the Effective Practices in a Community Supervision Model With Families” in Offender Programs Report, 18(1): pp.1–13.
According to its abstract, the article discusses the growing movement to change the way probation and parole agencies deliver services to offenders in response to findings on the lack of effectiveness in reducing recidivism.
Martel, Joane, Renee Brassard and Mylene Jaccoud. (March 2011). “When Two Worlds Collide: Aboriginal Risk Management in Canadian Corrections” in British Journal of Criminology, 51(2): pp.235–255.
This article addresses some of the prison’s adaptation schemes to shed light on three contradictory logics of risk-based management: (1) high-risk Aboriginal offenders have little access to risk-reducing programmes; (2) Aboriginality undergoes an ontological mutation that occurs during the process of risk assessment; and (3) Aboriginal correctional staff play a contradictory role in the (re)production of “Aboriginal risk.”
Morash, Merry, Deborah A. Kashy, Sandi W. Smith and Jennifer E. Cobbina. (2016). “The Connection of Probation/Parole Officer Actions to Women Offenders’ Recidivism” in Criminal Justice & Behavior, 43(4): pp.506–524.
This study examined the effects of probation/parole officer relationship style, attention to criminogenic needs, and intensity of supervision on women offenders’ arrests and convictions within a 24-month period.
Popova, Svetlana, Shannon Lange, Larry Burd and Jürgen Rehm. (July 2015). “Cost Attributable to Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in the Canadian Correctional System” in International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 41(41): pp.76–81.
The aim of this current study was to estimate the direct cost for youths (12–17 years old) and adults (18+ years old) with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder to the Canadian correctional system in 2011/2012.
Roberts, J. V., & Reid, A. A. (2017). Aboriginal Incarceration in Canada since 1978: Every Picture Tells the Same Story. Canadian Journal of Criminology & Criminal Justice, 59(3), 313.
This article documents current and historical trends in levels of Aboriginal incarceration at the provincial/territorial and federal levels since 1978.
Weinrath, M., Doerksen, M., & Watts, J. (2015). The Impact of an Intensive Supervision Program on High-Risk Offenders: Manitoba’s COHROU Program. Canadian Journal of Criminology & Criminal Justice, 57(2), 253.
This article provides the results of a program evaluation ofManitoba’s Criminal Organization High Risk Offender Unit (COHROU) program. This innovative program combines intensive supervision, support, and program placement with rapid police response in the event of noncompliance with supervision conditions.