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Introduction to Criminal Justice, 1st edition

Published by Pearson Canada (January 26, 2021) © 2022

  • Kelly Gorkoff

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Introduction to Criminal Justice aims to help people think and rethink, then understand why they think about things the way they do. This isn't just about learning the way the criminal justice system works. We may ask, What are the system's historical roots? What are its limits and possibilities? What are its assumptions? What the unintended consequences? This resource isn't meant just to train police officers or lawyers or corrections workers about how to work in the system. It is meant to help them think about the system they choose to work in and to do so in an informed way. This resource also serves students who are not pursuing a job in the criminal justice system—to help create an informed, knowledgeable citizenry.

Hallmark features of this title

  • Expert Snapshot highlights the research of Canadian criminological and criminal justice scholars. Each of these describe research in a particular facet of criminal justice. This research highlights studies such as eye-witnesses, militarized policing, remand, and specialized courts.
  • Case Studies encourage students to examine topics based on academic arguments and in ways that help them grow as thinkers. There are many more features in the resource that will guide students along the path of knowledge. 
  • Legal Files focuses on changes and shifts in law over the years, while the Law and Society box presents data and statistics based on recent research.

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2023 Content Updates
  1. Humboldt Bus Crash: Responsibility, Punishment, and What Justice Means. Humboldt bus crash update on bus driver's parole
  2. Public Concerns about post-pandemic crime – what do they tell us?? Crime rates have not increased but public perception is that crime has increased. 
  3. The Mama Bear Clan: Rethinking Community Safety. Mama Bear Clan is a group of Indigenous volunteers who act as a community watch/patrol in Winnipeg. Update about Bear Clan patrols are starting across Canada (Kenora, Fort Frances, Toronto, and Calgary)
  4. Uniforms, pins, and calls to defund the police – how police agencies respond. Perspectives on defunding police and what it means; Winnipeg Chief of Police Danny Smyth compared to Montreal Chief of Police Fady Dagher. Review of how many calls to the police deal with actual crime
  5. The Emergencies Act and the “Freedom Convoy” Occupation of Canada . February 2023 report on the validity of the invocation of the Emergencies Act to address Freedom Convoy and border blockades. How Charter of Rights & Freedoms apply to regulatory laws such mask mandates and vaccination polices.
  6. How much should we pay for legal assistance? The cost of hiring a defense attorney to represent an offender in court varies dramatically across Canada. But legal aid does more than represent accused people. It is also used to support victims who are dealing with analogous laws or are seeking further safety measures and general access to justice. A group of single mothers in British Columbia continued a 2017 constitutional challenge to weigh in on legal funding for women fleeing abuse. LEAF or the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund 
  7. Sentencing in Canada: Multiple Murderers and Retribution. Harsher sentences for shocking crimes: Quebec City mosque shooting; Justin Borque (murdered 3 RCMP officers in Moncton). Update related to moral concerns; allowing prisoners to eligible for parole
  8. Fair and Respectful Sentences for Domestic Abuse Survivors. Helen Naslund pled guilty to manslaughter of husband after 27 years of domestic abuse by her husband. Update on her situation. Less harsh sentences for victims of domestic abuse.
  9. Prison, TikTok, and Pains of Imprisonment. Value of Tik Tok for people in prison; cooking, dancing, music, skits. "Prison Tik Tok"; life in prison shared on social media; problems and opportunities created by new media tech in prisons
  10. Catch and Release: Calls to Change Bail and Parole iIn Canada. Bail and parole system and it protection for Canadians; Canada's "catch and release crises"; bail reform
  11. Community Mobilization and Youth Crime Prevention. START program in Selkirk, Manitoba; At-Risk teens; youth support; early identification and intervention of at-risk youth
  1. Introducing the Canadian Criminal Justice System: An Overview
  2. Knowing and Thinking about Criminal Justice
  3. The History and Purpose of Policing in Canada: Techniques of Social Order
  4. How Do Police, Police? The Where, How, and What of Policing in Canada
  5. Making Criminal Law
  6. Using Law: Policing and the Courts
  7. Philosophies of Punishment and Penalty
  8. Judicial Decision-Making and Sentencing Patterns
  9. Incarceration in Canada
  10. Community Corrections and Conditional Release
  11. Youth and the Canadian Criminal Justice System
  12. Moving Forward: Selected Issues in Canadian Criminal Justice

Dr. Kelly Gorkoff is a fifteen year faculty member of the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Winnipeg. Her research interests include political economy of criminal justice policy, critical theory, sex work, youth studies and public inquiries. She received her PhD from Carleton University's Sociology and Anthropology Department, where she wrote her dissertation on the corporatization of post-secondary education in Canada. Prior to that she was a research associate at RESOLVE, a research centre dedicated to studying violence against women. Dr. Gorkoff is a founding member of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Justice Studies (CJIS) and co- editor of the Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research. She is currently an associate professor and chair of the department.

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