In Canada, however, the picture was verydifferent. In 1975, when the undergraduate program in Criminology was instituted at Simon Fraser University (SFU), it was the first program of its kind to be offered at an English speaking Canadian university. In order to provide some preliminary data ...
Undergraduate criminology programs, in Canada and the United States, aim to provide students with a foundation for the understanding of crime and the administration of justice domestically as well as in a global context. To accomplish this, they incorporate theory, research methods, and knowledge fro...
A collection of essays written by feminist criminologists from the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and South Africa, who discuss how feminist theories have impacted traditional criminology in their countries and offered alternative analyses of various crimes, including crimes of violence against...
offered as a potential solution to restore this balance while helping to break the criminogenic cycle. In looking at the feasibility of prison specialization, attention is given to three great thinkers, Albert Einstein, Immanuel Kant, and Winston Churchill. Both Einstein and Kant suggested that ...
in part by the late-20th-century “war on drugs.” Outcome studies often report successes in reducing drug use and criminal recidivism. Significant critiques of the drug court model and of problem-solving courts more generally have been offered, however, raising questions about the reliability of...
Thirty-seven RCTs reporting 38 effect sizes were included in this meta-analysis. In 23 studies, the control group received no-treatment (62.2%); six studies reported controls receiving ‘treatment as usual’ (16.2%), four experiments offered a placebo to the control group (10.8%), and four...
Despite these limitations, this paper has offered new, empirical insights into what it is to ‘be’ a terrorist. The complexity of social and personal experiences that occur during a lifespan has highlighted that the social connections groups may have, play a protective role for buffering against...