Karim Ismaili, Jane B. Sprott and Kim Varma
Written by a team of experts from across the country, this original collection begins with an introduction to the Canadian criminal justice system followed by two parts: the first focusing on specific areas of the criminal justice system in light of the policy surrounding it and the second
examining crime policy as it relates to a range of policy areas such as immigration, welfare, and technology. Current and comprehensive, this innovative volume uncovers the process and participants involved in shaping criminal justice policy, while linking crime policy and democratic governance in
Canada to broader institutional, cultural, and global criminal justice trends.
Karim Ismaili, Jane B. Sprott, and Kim Varma: Introduction: Thinking about Criminal Justice Policy in Canada
Suggested Readings and Websites
Part I: The Criminal Justice System
Karim Ismaili, Jane B. Sprott, and Kim Varma: Overview
1. Christopher Murphy: Canadian Police and
Policing Policy, Post-9/11
2. Anthony N. Doob and Cheryl Marie Webster: Back to the Future? Policy Development in Pre-Trial Detention in Canada
3. Allan Manson: A Trip from Thoughtful to Thoughtless: Murder Sentencing in Canada
4. Cheryl Marie Webster and Anthony N. Doob: Maintaining
Balance: Trends in Imprisonment Policies in Canada
5. Richard Barnhorst: Youth Justice Policy Reform: The Youth Criminal Justice Act
6. Scott Clark and Tammy Landau: Aboriginal Justice Policy in Canada
7. E. Jane Ursel: Domestic Violence and Problem-Solving Courts
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and Websites
Part II: Related Policy Areas
Karim Ismaili, Jane B. Sprott, and Kim Varma: Overview
8. Benedikt Fischer, Meagan Bibby, Elena Argento, Thomas Kerr, and Evan Wood: Drug Law and Policy Canada: A Review of History, Evidence, and Interventions Torn between Criminal
Justice and Public Health
9. Kent Roach: Terrorism and National Security Policy-Making in Canada
10. Wendy Chan: The Criminalization of Poverty: Welfare Reform and the Policing of Welfare in Canada
11. Anna Pratt: Immigration Penality and the Crime-Security Nexus: The Case of Tran Trong
Nghi Nguyen
12. Margaret E. Beare: Policy and Politics: The Evolution of Organized Crime Policies in Canada
13. Sara M. Smyth: Internet Law and Policy from a Canadian Perspective
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Karim Ismaili is Associate Dean for Graduate Affairs and Research and Professor of Criminology in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Kennesaw State University. He is a Senior Fellow of the Vincentian Center for Social Justice at St. John's University and an affiliate of the
Center for Excellence in Research on Immigration and Settlement (CERIS). Karim has held professorships at Ryerson University in Toronto, where he was the Inaugural Chair of the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology (2006-2010), at 'St. Johns University in New York City (1997-2006), and at
Radford University in Virginia (1996-1997). He has also served as a visiting professor of Behavioral Science at the New York Police Academy. Karim's areas of teaching, research and publishing include criminal justice policy and analysis, penology, criminological theory, crime and inequality, and
post 9/11 crime and security developments.
Jane B. Sprott received her Ph.D. from the Centre of Criminology at the University of Toronto. She is currently an associate professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Ryerson University. Her research interests include
the operation of the youth and adult criminal justice systems, pre-trial detention, and perceptions of crime and criminal justice policies. Professor Sprott has published work on a variety of issues related to youth justice including; Sprott and Doob Justice for Girls? Stability and Change in the
Youth Justice Systems of the United States and Canada (University of Chicago Press, 2009); Greene, Sprott, Madon and Jung Punishing Processes in Youth Court: Procedural Justice, Court Atmosphere and Youths' Views of the Legitimacy of the Justice System (Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal
Justice, 2010); Sprott and Doob Gendered treatment: Bail conditions placed on youths (Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 2010).
Kimberly N. Varma earned her doctoral degree in Criminology from the University of Toronto (2000). She is an Associate Professor in the
Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Ryerson University. Areas of research include parental involvement in youth court, the operation of the youth justice system in Canada, and policies around social assistance fraud and associated penalties.