Criminal Law

Includes an international comparative review of Canada's evolving criminal record legislation; the promotive features of employment; the complex constraints and stigma former prisoners encounter as they seek employment; and the individual and societal benefits of assisting former prisoners attain "gainful" employment.

By bridging relational and other critical theories with lived experience, this text sheds light on the challenges incarcerated women face as they seek to return to the community as valued and contributing citizens.

The Policy Manual from the Parole Board of Canada that governs parole and re-entry decisions.

This text explores how concerns about aboriginality, gender, and the multicultural ideal of “diversity” have been interpreted and used to alter federal parole policy and practice.

From the Office of the Correctional Investigator this report provides insight into the Conditional Release Act and it's relation to Aboriginal Peoples.

The critique of mass incarceration has grown more powerful, many reformers have embraced changes that release people from prisons and jails but these rapidly spreading reforms largely fall under the heading of “e-carceration”—a range of punitive technological interventions, from ankle monitors to facial recognition apps, that deprive people of their liberty, all in the name of ending mass incarceration.