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Unit 1: Crime in Canada

Andrews, D., Bonta, J. & Hoge, R.D. (1990). Classification for effective rehabilitation: Rediscovering psychology. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 17(1), 19–52.

Unit 2: Theories of Crime: Biological and Evolutionary Explanations

Besemer, S., Ahmad, S., Hinshaw, S., & Farrington, D. (2017). A systematic review and meta-analysis of the intergenerational transmission of criminal behaviour. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 37, 161–178.
Caspi, A., McClay, J., Moffitt, T.E., Mill, J., Martin, J., Craig, I.W., Taylor, A., & Poulton, R. (2002). Role of genotype in the cycle of violence in maltreated children. Science, 297, 851–854.
Daly, M., & Wilson, M. (1988). Evolutionary social psychology and family homicide. Science, 242 (4878), 1519–1524.
Zerjal, T., Xue, Y., Bertorelle, G., Wells, R., Bao, W., Zhu, S., Qamar, R., Ayub, Q., Mohyuddin, A., Fu, S., & Li, P. (2003). The genetic legacy of the Mongols. The American Journal of Human Genetics, 72(3), 717–721.

Unit 3: Theories of Crime: Learning and Environment

Bonta, J., & Andrews, D. (2007). Risk-need-responsivity model for offender assessment and rehabilitation. Rehabilitation, 6(1), 1–22.

Unit 4: Economically Motivated Crimes

Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (2021). Global organized crime index 2021.
Louis Moore, C. & Stuart, F. (2022). Gang research in the twenty-first century. Annual Review of Criminology, 5(1), 299–320.
Wohlbold, E., LeMay, K., & Harrison-Baird, C. (2014). Local safety audit guide: To prevent trafficking in persons and related exploitation in the Ottawa area. Public Safety Canada.
Wormith, J. & Truswell, K. (2022). Strengths in the risk-need-responsivity model of offender assessment and rehabilitation. In C. Langton  & J. Worling (Eds.), Facilitating Desistance from Aggression and Crime: Theory, Research and Strength-Based Practice. (pp. 194–230). John Wiley & Sons

Unit 5: Substance Use and Crime

Gutierrez, L., & Bourgon, G. (2012). Drug treatment courts: A quantitative review of study and treatment quality. Justice Research and Policy, 14(2), 47–77.
Lewis, M. (2017). Addiction and the brain: Development, not disease. Neuroethics, 10(1), 7–18.
Mitchell, O., Wilson, D., & MacKenzie, D. (2007). Does incarceration-based drug treatment reduce recidivism? A meta-analytic synthesis of the research. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 3(4), 353–375.

Unit 6: Violent Offending: General Violence and Homicide

Lalumiere, M., Harris, G., & Rice, M. (2001). Psychopathy and developmental instability. Evolution and Human Behaviour, 22(2). 75–92.
Papalia, N., Spivak, B., Daffern, M., & Ogloff, J. (2019). A meta-analytic review of the efficacy of psychological treatments for violent offenders in correctional and forensic mental health settings. Clinical Psychology Science and Practice 26(2), e12282.
Raine, A. (2002). Biosocial studies of antisocial and violent behaviour in children and adults: A review. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 30(4). 311–316
Yang, M., Wong, S., & Coid, J. (2010). The efficacy of violence prediction: A meta-analytic comparison of nine risk assessment tools. Psychological Bulletin, 136(5). 740–767.

Unit 7: Intimate Partner Violence

Conroy, S. (2021). Spousal violence in Canada, 2019. Juristat: Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics.
Travers, Á., McDonagh, T., Cunningham, T., Armour, C., & Hansen, M. (2021). The effectiveness of interventions to prevent recidivism in perpetrators of intimate partner violence: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Clinical Psychology Review, 84, Article 101974.

Unit 8: Mental Disorder in the Criminal Justice System

Brink, J., Livingston, J., Desmarais, S., Greaves, C., Maxwell, V., Michalak, E., Parent, R., Verdun-Jones, S., & Weaver, C. (2011). A study of how people with mental illness perceive and interact with the police. Mental Health Commission of Canada.
Douglas, K., Guy, L., & Hart, S. (2009). Psychosis as a risk factor for violence to others: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 135(5), 679–706.

Unit 9: Psychopathic Offending

Blair, R. (2007). The amygdala and ventromedial prefrontal cortex in morality and psychopathy. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 11(9), 387–392.
Book, A., Costello, K., & Camilleri, J.  (2013). Psychopathy and victim selection: The use of gait as a cue to vulnerability. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 28(11), 2368–2383.

Unit 10: Sexual Offending

Hanson, R., & Morton-Bourgon, K. (2005). The characteristics of persistent sexual offenders: A meta-analysis of recidivism studies. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 73(6), 1154–1163.
Seto, M. (2019). The motivation-facilitation model of sexual offending. Sexual Abuse, 31(1), 3–24.
Ward, T., & Gannon, T. (2006). Rehabilitation, etiology, and self-regulation: The comprehensive good lives model of treatment for sexual offenders. Aggression and violent behavior, 11(1), 77–94.

Unit 11: Justice-Impacted Youth

Castillo-Eito, L., Armitage, C., Norman, P., Day, M., Dogru, O., & Rowe, R. (2020). How can adolescent aggression be reduced? A multi-level meta-analysis. Clinical Psychology Review, 78, 101853.
Copeland, W., Tong, G., Gifford, E., Easter, M., Shanahan, L., Swartz, M., & Swanson, J. (2023). Adult criminal outcomes of juvenile justice involvement. Psychological Medicine, 53(8), 3711–3718.
Herrenkohl, T., Maguin, E., Hill, K., Hawkins, J., Abbott, R., & Catalano, R. (2000). Developmental risk factors for youth violence. Journal of Adolescent Health, 26(3), 176–186.
Moffitt, T. (2017). Adolescence-limited and life-course-persistent antisocial behavior: A developmental taxonomy. Psychological Review, 100(4): 674–701.
Polanczyk, G., Salum, G., Sugaya, L., Caye, A., & Rohde, L. (2015). Annual research review: A meta‐analysis of the worldwide prevalence of mental disorders in children and adolescents. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 56(3), 345–365.

Unit 12: Justice-Impacted Girls and Women

Bloom, B., Owen, B., & Covington, S. (2003). Gender-responsive strategies: Research, practice, and guiding principles for women offenders. National Institute of Corrections, U.S. Department of Justice.
Daly, K. (1992). Women’s pathways to felony court: Feminist theories of lawbreaking and problems of representation. Review of Law and Women’s Studies, 2, 11–52.
Task Force on Federally Sentenced Women (1990). Creating choices: Report of the task force on federally sentenced women. Correctional Service of Canada.

Unit 13: Justice-Impacted Indigenous Persons

Clark, S. (2019). Overrepresentation of Indigenous People in the Canadian criminal justice system: Causes and responses. Research and Statistics Division, Department of Justice Canada.
Corrado, R., Kuehn, S., & Margaritescu, I. (2014). Policy issues regarding the overrepresentation of incarcerated Aboriginal young offenders in a Canadian context. Youth Justice, 14(1), 40–62.
McGuire-Adams, T. (2017). Anishinaabeg women’s stories of well-being: Physical activity, restoring well-being, and dismantling the settler colonial deficit analysis. Journal of Indigenous Well-being, 2(3), 90–104.
Rudin, J. (2013). There must be some kind of way out of here: Aboriginal over-representation, Bill C-10, and the Charter of Rights. Canadian Criminal Law Review, 17(3), 349–363.
Trevethan, S., & Moore, J. (2013). Childhood experiences of Aboriginal offenders. In J. White, P. Maxim & D. Beaven (Eds.), Aboriginal policy research: Setting the stage for change (pp. 245–255). Thompson Educational Publishing Ltd.
Walsh, C., Puszka, S., Markham, F., Barney, J., Yap, M., & Dreise, T. (2023). Supporting Indigenous People with disability in contact with the justice system: A systematic scoping review. Disability & Society, 39(10), 2697–2733.