Welcome to Criminal Justice 480: Corrections and Penology, which provides an overview of the correctional system in Canada. Grounded in empirical evidence, the course explores Canada’s correctional system from the perspectives of researchers, policy makers, the public, offenders, and correctional staff through an examination of both the historical and current policies and practices that shape Canadian corrections.
Canada. Criminal Code, R.S.C., 1985, c. C–46.
Please read Sections 718, 717, 730–732, 734, 737–738 (note that if you use the table of contents link to 737.1: Restitution, you will have to page up to 737: Victim Surcharge), 742, 745, and 752. Note that not all sections are listed in the table of contents, but they are in the document. Simply choose the closest section before the one you want in the table of contents, and then page down. |
Canada. Corrections and Conditional Release Act, S.C., 1992, c. 20.
Please read Sections 3 and 100. |
Paternoster, R. (2010). How much do we really know about criminal deterrence? Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 100(3), 765–823.
Please read the following selections—note the page numbers.
|
Doob, A. N., & Webster, C. M. (2003). Sentence severity and crime: Accepting the null hypothesis. In M. Tonry (Ed.), Crime and Justice, 30, 143–195. |
Nagin, D. S., Cullen, F. T., & Jonson, C. L. (2009). Imprisonment and reoffending. In M. Tonry (Ed.), Crime and Justice, 38, 115–200.
Please read “I. Perspectives on Imprisonment” (pp. 122–128). |
Supplemental Reading |
Chen, E. Y. (2008). Impacts of “three strikes and you’re out” on crime trends in California and throughout the United States. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 24(4), pp. 345–370. |
Cullen, F. T. (2013). Rehabilitation: Beyond nothing works. In M. Tonry (Ed.), Crime and Justice, 42, 299–376.
Please read
|
Forsberg, L., & Douglas, T. (2020). What is criminal rehabilitation? Criminal Law and Philosophy, 16, 103–126. |
Barnett, G. D., & Fitzalan Howard, F. (2018). What doesn’t work to reduce reoffending? A review of reviews of ineffective interventions for adults convicted of crimes. European Psychologist, 23(2), pp. 111–129.
Please read “Discussion: What Appears to Be Less Effective at Reducing Reoffending and What Is Associated with Harm?” (pp. 123–126). |
Carlsmith, K. M., & Darley, J. M. (2008). Psychological aspects of retributive justice. In M. P. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology, 40, 193–236.
Please read the following selections—note the page numbers.
|
Doob, A. N., & Webster, C. M. (2016). Weathering the storm? Testing long-standing Canadian sentencing policy in the twenty-first century. In M. Tonry (Ed.), Crime and Justice, 45, 359–418. |
Rogers, R., & Ventura Miller, H. (2019). Restorative justice. In M. Deflem (Ed.), The handbook of social control (pp. 167–180). Wiley Blackwell. |
Corrections and Conditional Release Act, S.C., 1992, c. 20.
Please read Sections 100–102, 115–116, and 119–121. Note that not all sections are listed in the table of contents, but they are in the document. Simply choose the closest section before the one you want in the table of contents, and then page down. |
Doob, A. N, Webster, C. M., & Manson, A. (2014). Zombie parole: The withering of conditional release in Canada. Criminal Law Quarterly, 61(3), 301–328. |
Ackerman, N., Pahlke, A., & MacInnes, T. (Dir.). (2019). Conviction [Film]. Sea to Sea and The National Film Board of Canada. (1:18 hr) |
Sheppard., A., & Ricciardelli, R. (2020). Employment after prison: Navigating conditions of precarity and stigma. European Journal of Probation, 12(1), 34–52. |