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Vic Toews and the League of Imaginary Crime Fighters
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/joan-ruzsa/vic-toews-crime-rate_b_1734062.html So this is rich: the Conservatives are taking credit for the falling crime rate. On July 24, after Statistics Canada reporte… more →
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The Lib Dem flip flop on prisoner votes - again
wrote 6 days ago: Today’s Sunday Times reports that the Liberal Democrats in Scotland are to propose allowing sh … more →
Letter to Karl McCartney About the Privatisation of Probation
wrote 3 months ago: As promised yesterday, see below a screenshot of my letter to Karl McCartney, my local MP, raising s … more →
Transforming Rehabilitation: A Response
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wrote 4 months ago: The Government today released its consultation entitled ‘Transforming Rehabilitation’, which sets ou … more →
Power, Crime and Society - Part 1: Contentious External Issues Facing Contemporary Criminology
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wrote 6 months ago: This is the first in a three-part series examining the basis on which criminologists can better enga … more →
Centralization of power
wrote 8 months ago: Two years after I returned to my normal life in the Assembly after the 1989 race for District Attorn … more →
How a politician publicly supports shortening sentences for drug dealers, and survives anyway
wrote 8 months ago: In my first few years representing the 45th Assembly District, constituents regularly called me to c … more →
Vic Toews and the League of Imaginary Crime Fighters
wrote 9 months ago: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/joan-ruzsa/vic-toews-crime-rate_b_1734062.html So this is rich: the Con … more →
Crime Doesn't Deter Tories - Nor Do Facts
wrote 9 months ago: by Joan Ruzsa Huffington Post July 16th, 2012 There’s something I don’t understand about … more →
Chairing the Committee on Correction: Prisons and Jails
wrote 1 year ago: In 1988, with my blessing, New York opened its first “maxi-max” prison facility, Southport Correctio … more →
A Meaner Canada: Junk Politics and the Omnibus Crime Bill
wrote 1 year ago: From Alex Himelfarb’s blog, this post eloquently addresses the problems with the Conservatives … more →
Forensic psychiatry and public protection
wrote 1 year ago: Forensic psychiatry and public protection, The British Journal of Psychiatry 2011, Vol.198 (6), pp. … more →
Could economics solve the prison crisis?
wrote 2 years ago: From Probation Journal This study suggests that economists have a unique opportunity to help solve t … more →
Club Fed - Part 2
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wrote 2 years ago: by Giselle Dias ____________________________________________________________________________________ … more →
Gun violence: why do Americans put up with this?
wrote 2 years ago: A friend recently sent me an article from the Washington Post published on October 24, 2010, in effe … more →
Liberals ask budget watchdog to estimate cost of Tory crime bill
wrote 2 years ago: Liberals ask budget watchdog to estimate cost of Tory crime bill from Canada.com: Politics and the … more →
Prisoners' Justice Week
wrote 2 years ago: Are you furious about the arrest and detainment of over 900 people during the G20 weekend in June? A … more →
More Evidence That We Spend Ridiculous Amounts of Money on Prison
wrote 2 years ago: Tory crime bill to cost extra $618M per year, report finds OTTAWA—A new law that limits the amount o … more →
A Foolhardy Approach to Criminal Justice
wrote 2 years ago: from http://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/monitor/foolhardy-approach-criminal-justice Harp … more →
June 12th Prisoners' Justice Community Meeting
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wrote 2 years ago: Please circulate widely . . . On February 27th, 2010, and then again on April 17th, a group of over … more →
