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Criminological Highlights – Volume 16, Number 2

Criminological Highlights – Volume 15, Issue 6

Criminological Highlights – Volume 15, Issue 1

The first issue of Volume 15 of Criminological Highlights (April 2015). The eight papers that are summarized in this issue address the following questions: Do punitive policies directed at disruptive students affect other students in the school? Are people released from prison after serving time for a homicide offence likely to reoffend? Does attending an ‘advantaged’ school affect all students equally? Does making a victim impact statement have therapeutic effects for victims? Is procedural justice important for young people? Do those who favour harsh penalties for offenders also believe that poor people in our communities are largely responsible for their condition? Does an arrest without a charge hurt a person’s […]

Criminological Highlights – Volume 15, Issue 3

The third issue of Volume 15 of Criminological Highlights (September 2015). The eight papers that are summarized in this issue address the following questions: Do conditions placed on youths on release while awaiting trial serve any useful purpose? How is the manner in which police treat citizens related to the strength of citizens’ beliefs that violence is justified? What kinds of employment programs for ex-prisoners are effective? Did prison overcrowding legislation in the US reduce the use of imprisonment? Why do offenders have a hard time finding a place to live? Are all racialized groups in the US disadvantaged at sentencing? When violent crime rates decreased in the US, who benefited […]

Criminological Highlights – Volume 15, Issue 4

The fourth issue of Volume 15 of Criminological Highlights (September 2015). The eight papers that are summarized in this issue address the following questions: 1. Are high risk sex offenders high risk forever? 2. Why should governments be wary of cost-savings claims for private prisons? 3. Why does poor treatment of ordinary citizens by the police lead to more offending? 4. What types of restorative justice programs have been shown to be effective in reducing re-offending? 5. Is it useful to talk about a single imprisonment rate for federal jurisdictions like Australia? 6. Was do the different rates of imprisonment in the US states reflect? 7. Is it possible to […]

Criminological Highlights – Volume 15, Issue 5

The fifth issue of Volume 15 of Criminological Highlights (March 2016). The eight papers that are summarized in this issue address the following questions: 1) Where do gangs get their guns? 2) What kinds of strategies can the police use to reduce crime in specific neighbourhoods? 3) Can employment programs for those being released from prisons reduce reoffending? 4) Who has a bigger effect on criminal sentences: the judge or the prosecutor? 5) Can we assume correctional programs that sound as if they should be effective will do no harm? 6) How do risk assessments affect the pretrial release process? 7) Did the softening of drug laws in Portugal change […]

UOT – Criminological Highlights – Research in Action

The fifth issue of Volume 14 of Criminological Highlights (November 2014) from the Centre of Criminology at the University of Toronto.