NCJ Number
99791
Editor(s)
A N Doob,
E L Greenspan
Date Published
1984
Length
363 pages
Annotation
Fifteen essays cover various criminological topics, including violence, reform, defense counsel, Canadian gun control legislation, and discipline, with particular attention to crime and criminal justice issues in Canada.
Abstract
Essays look at the development, funding, and programs of Toronto University's Centre of Criminology; review changes in societal responses to violence in early-modern England, and compare public attitudes toward crime and criminal justice in Canada with research data, drawing implications for reform. Essays also trace the history of criminal appeals in Canada, consider a Canadian court case pertaining to the curtailment of civil disorder while protecting civil rights, and define and apply criminal responsibility to the insanity defense and cases involving intoxication and immaturity. Also reviewed are developments in the Canadian juvenile code and issues in a 1955 Canadian capital case from the perspective of the presiding judge. Another essay argues for the value of defense counsel in adversarial trials to ensure factfinding on behalf of the accused and the protection of due process. Different American and Canadian approaches to gun control laws are examined, as well as the dynamics of criminal law reform, the political theory of controlology, corporate regulation, criminology and sociolegal studies, and the difference between moral and instrumental discipline. Chapter references. For individual essays, see NCJ 99792-800.