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  1. Alternative Press Annual 1984, The
    Resource Type: Book
  2. Alternatives to the Death Penalty
    The Problem with Life Imprisonment

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2007
  3. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 4 - August 1978

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  4. The Capital Punishment Debate
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1984
    The death penalty make us all complicit in killing, and degrades us as a society.
  5. Converse
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1976
    The role of church people in the correctional system.
  6. Convicts, Collateral Damage, and the "War on Drugs"
    The Real Crime is the War Itself

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Two recent court cases in southern California provide insight into the identity of those smuggle drugs across the international boundary between the two countries. But more importantly what they do is highlight how the ludicrous “war on drugs” produces casualties of many sorts.
  7. Counterpunch
    Periodical profile

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Progressive U.S. website/newsletter.
  8. Crime and Criminals
    Address to the Prisoners in the Chicago Jail

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1902
    So long as big criminals can get the coal fields, so long as the big criminals have control of the city council and get the public streets for street cars and gas rights, this is bound to send thousands of poor people to jail. So long as men are allowed to monopolize all the earth, and compel others to live on such terms as these men see fit to make, then you are bound to get into jail.
  9. Crime and Punishment
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1903
    Let us have done with this savage idea of punishment, which is without wisdom. Let us work for the freedom of man from the oppressions which make criminals, and for the enlightened treatment of all the sick.
  10. Crime and Punishment in America
    Why the Solutions to America's Most Stubborn Social Crisis Have Not Worked... and What Will

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
    Currie explores why being 'tough on crime' will only serve to exacerbate the problem.
  11. Criminalizing Truancy
    Should Kids be Jailed for Skipping School?

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    American jurisdictions are increasingly turning to the criminal justice system to deal with truancy. Students and parents are being fined, and in some cases jailed, for missing school.
  12. Execution Day in Zhengzhou
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1991
    A first-hand account of an execution day in China.
  13. Files that may shed light on colonial crimes still kept secret by UK
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Secret government files from the final years of the British empire are still being concealed despite a pledge by William Hague, the foreign secretary, that they would be declassified and opened to the public.
  14. Hanging in Canada
    A Concise History of a Controversial Topic

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
  15. In Russian and French Prisons
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    Kropotkin's criticism of the penal system, and an inside look into the horrors and realities of what life in prison entails.
  16. Lockdown High
    When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2011
    Schools in the U.S. are increasingly imposed unprecedented restrictions on students' rights, dignity, and educational freedom. In what is being called the school-to-prison pipleline, the police and practices of the juvenile justice system, including so-called "zero tolerance" policies, are pushing students out of schools.
  17. Make the Don a Museum of Horrors
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1977
    A museum depicting what prison is really like might motivate us to demand radical changes to the way we deal with offenders.
  18. Maximum, Minimum, Medium
    A Journey Through Canadian Prisons

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
    Serving a nine-year sentence, Melnitzer documented his experience in three different prisons, along with his own introspections.
  19. Penal transportation
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    The deporting of convicted criminals to a penal colony. Examples include transportation by France to Devil's Island and by the UK to its colonies in the Americas, from the 1610s through the American Revolution in the 1770s, and then to Australia between 1788 and 1868.
  20. Prison Abolition & Alternatives
    Nine Perspectives for Prison Abolitionists

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1976
    A argument for the abolition of prisons and a discussion of alternatives.
  21. Prisoners' Rights Group
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1978
  22. Prisons in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    Gosselin provides a political and historical view of the prison system and its inherent contradictions. He argues that the penal system is used by the State to maintain its authority. He remarks on corporations, the press and the parole board and the difference in their treatment and coverage of prisoners and prisons. He sees the penal system as a morally bankrupt bureaucracy which threatens future incarceration for many people that the economy cannot absorb.
  23. Quaker Prison Committee
    A series of reflections by Ruth Morris, director of Canadian Friends Service Committee

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1977
    A look at two case histories vis. the bail system and pre-trial treatment of those charged.
  24. St. Leonard's Society of Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  25. The Threat of the Tag
    Resource Type: Article
    Tracking anklets for convicts are not a good way to alleviate prison overcrowding.
  26. Too Big to Jail
    Not Too Big to Resist

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    US rich evade punishment while the poor are criminalized in the two-tier justice system.
  27. Twice Removed: Double Punishment and Racial Profiling in Canada
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2013
    Immigrants who commit criminal offences are punished twice: once when they're sentenced for their crime, and again when they are permanently removed from Canada, even if they had lived here since childhood.This is known as "double punishment."

Experts on Crime & Punishment in the Sources Directory

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