INTRODUCTION The focus of the criminal justice system in Canada and all around the world for hundreds of years has been retributive justice. One of the main ideas has been you do the crime, you do the time. Thus, all of our prisons were beginning to fill up and exceed their capacity. This was a...

Beginning in Chicago, Illinois in 1899, a distinction was made between crime committed by adults and crime committed by juveniles. With the help of Jane Adams and other reformers, a separate court was set up for juvenile offenders. This new court for youthful offenders was designed to "place g...

Gun ControlYou're sitting in your room late one evening when you hear something downstairs. At first you ignore it thinking it's just a noise. Then you hear something even louder and it seems to be approaching your door. You don't know who this could possibly be being that you live by yourself. Fear...

Criminally Inclined Foreigners and Illusions of Mono-EthnicityIntroduction:Japan perceives itself and is perceived by other nations as a mono-ethnic and racially pure society. Since the post-World War Two era, a low crime rate has existed in Japan. Recently however, crime has been on a sharp rise. T...