Criminal Justice

Criminal Justice: Winter 2006
Vol. 2, No. 8
(40 pages)
PDF of Complete Issue (1.5mb)

Table of Contents

  • Editor’s message (Christina Martens)
  • Mental Illness and Criminal Justice: Where Tolerance Breaks Down [guest editorial] (Stephen Hart)
  • A Long Way to Go (Patrick Storey and Jim White)
  • An Enduring Stereotype: Criminalization of Mental Illness in the Media (Kim Meier)
  • Treatment of Substance Abuse Disorders in BC: What's Missing? (Ray Baker)
  • The Criminalization of Individuals with Mental Illness (David Simpson)
  • Preventing Homelessness Following Prison Release (Judy Graves)
  • Canada's Penitentiaries: Not equipped to care for growing numbers of prisoners with mental illnessess (Howard Sapers)
  • Criminalizing Mental Illness (Camia Weaver)
  • How Did You Get Into That? (Rennie Hoffman)
  • Doing Time: My Story (Curtis Aurhur)
  • More Good Than Harm? I Don't Think So! (Howard Fluxgold)
  • Mental Health in the Courtroom: One Judge's Perspective (Judge Judith Gedye)
  • Panhandling Restrictions in Vancouver: Discriminatory and Hypocritical (Cynthia Row)
  • Arrest or Treatment? The Vancouver Police Department Speaks Up for Treatment (Steve Schnizter)
  • Compassion by Law Enforcers: More Comman than May Be Expected (Frank G. Sterle, Jr.)
  • Adolescent Addiction and Corrections: My Journey (David Grant)
  • Developing Service Partnerships in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (Michelle Patterson)
  • Treating Offenders with Mental Disorders (Bill Rankin)
  • Mental Health Court in Ontario (Honourable Justice Edward F. Ormston)
  • Behind the Scenes at a Forensic Psychiatric Clinic (Lisa May)
  • Changing the Way We Work with Mentally Disordered Offenders in the Community (Shelley Cook)
  • An International Study of Crime and Violence Risk: Understanding Community Outcomes of People with Serious Mental Illness (Deborah Ross)
  • Street Crime and Social Disorder in Vancouver (Sherri Lee)
  • Searching for Justice: Mental Health Advocacy in the Court System (Liz Roberts)
  • BC's Forensic Psychiatric Hospital (Lisa May)
  • Resources

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