Corrections in Canada

Corrections in Canada
Author: John W. Ekstedt
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 455
Release: 2013-10-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1483103668

Corrections in Canada: Policy and Practice, Second Edition examines the Canadian correctional policy and practice. The book is comprised of 11 chapters that tackle a specific area of concern. The first chapter provides an introductory discourse about the Canadian correctional system. The next chapter discusses the history of Canadian Correction. Chapter 3 covers the Canadian correctional enterprise, and Chapter 4 talks about policymaking in Canadian corrections. The book also tackles correctional planning and deals with the structures of management and administration in corrections. The correctional treatment programs and the delivery of correctional treatment are also explained. The book then covers the community-based corrections. The last two chapters discuss correctional reform and the future of correction in Canada. The book will be of use to individuals interested in the Canadian correctional system, as well as to those involved in the development of any correctional systems.

Corrections, Mental Health, and Social Policy

Corrections, Mental Health, and Social Policy
Author: Robert K. Ax
Publisher: Charles C Thomas Publisher
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2007
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0398085064

This book is well suited to readers dealing with correctional issues in today's complex global society. Given the task of providing adequate mental health care to the burgeoning U.S. prison population, including those thousands with serious mental illnesses who have defaulted from the nation's disjointed mental health systems, the book provides a consideration of approaches and ideas beyond those generated in the domestic academic-practitioner community, including the mental health concerns that transcend borders and national sovereignty. In this category are the treatment and management of te.

Canadian Corrections

Canadian Corrections
Author: Curt Taylor Griffiths
Publisher: Thomson Nelson
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2003
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780176224769

Canadian Corrections offers a comprehensive introduction to correctional practices in Canada. This user-friendly text combines description, analysis of critical issues, current research and case students to teach students the inner-workings of the Canadian correction system. The second edition includes all current research findings and up-to-date statistical material as well as new information on trends in Canadian corrections, the challenges of probation in the 21st century and the privatization of corrections in Canada.

The Welfare State in Canada

The Welfare State in Canada
Author: Allan Moscovitch
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0889206740

The first major reference work of its kind in the social welfare field in Canada, this volume is a selected bibliography of works on Canadian social welfare policy. The entries in Part One treat general aspects of the origins, development, organization, and administration of the welfare state in Canada; included is a section covering basic statistical sources. The entries in Part Two treat particular areas of policy such as unemployment, disabled persons, prisons, child and family welfare, health care, and day care. Also included are an introductory essay reviewing the literature on social welfare policy in Canada, a "User's Guide," several appendices on archival materials, and an extensive chronology of Canadian social welfare legislation both federal and provincial. The volume will increase the accessibility of literature on the welfare state and stimulate increased awareness and further research. It should be of wide interest to students, researchers, librarians, social welfare policy analysts and administrators, and social work practitioners.

Trends in Corrections

Trends in Corrections
Author: Jennie K. Singer
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2012-10-05
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1439835799

Offering rare insiders perspectives, Trends in Corrections: Interviews with Corrections Leaders Around the World is a comprehensive survey of correctional programming and management styles used across nations. Twelve chapters present transcribed interviews of corrections leaders along with a brief portrait of the corrections system in those jurisd

Parole in Canada

Parole in Canada
Author: Sarah Turnbull
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2016-10-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0774831960

Just as Canada’s population has changed in the past four decades, so too has its prison population. The increasing diversity among prisoners raises important questions about how we punish those who break the law. Parole in Canada is the first book to explore how concerns about Aboriginality, gender, and the multicultural ideal of “diversity” have been interpreted and used to alter federal parole policy and practice. Using the Parole of Board of Canada as a case study, this book shows how certain facets of offender differences are selectively included for “accommodation,” while fundamental institutional structures, practices, and power arrangements remain unchanged. Sarah Turnbull argues that, as the current approach fails to challenge outdated notions about gender, race, and aboriginality within the penal system, instead of addressing concerns around diversity, these measures end up contributing to further exclusion and discrimination within the system.