Past research documents the persistence of positive impacts of early life interventions on
noncognitive skills. We test the symmetry of this finding by studying the persistence of a …

Law and Society provides a balanced and comprehensive analysis of the interplay between
law and society using both Canadian and international examples. This clear and readable …

Also Serving Time informs readers about the realities of provincial and territorial prison work
in Canada. Exploring the nuances of the job, Rosemary Ricciardelli shows how officer …

Bringing together insights from macro-level theory about “mass imprisonment” and micro-
level case studies of contemporary punishment, this article presents a mid-level agonistic …

Characterized both by its interdisciplinary and its applied nature, crime prevention is
influenced by diverse fields such as psychology, sociology, criminology, health care, urban …

One of the goals of the 2003 YCJA was to divert youth away from the court system,
especially when they were accused of relatively minor offences (see Text box 1). Given this …

This paper builds on the insights of Sawer and Laycock (2009) to explore similarities in the
use of populist discourse by former Australian Prime John Howard and current Canadian …

In prospective longitudinal studies of juvenile offenders, the presence of multiple
developmental pathways of antisocial behaviors has consistently been identified. An …

The increase use of formal youth diversion programs in Canada coincided with the
enactment of the Youth Criminal Justice Act in 2003. Following the tenets of the labeling …

Although youth probation (in some countries described as youth justice or youth offending
work) has been widely discussed in older and more recent criminological literature, less …