The Carrot and the Stick
Social change and tougher sentencing are both essential in combating violent crime April 2006
This is an important book, coming as it does on the heels of so many recent youth murders in Vancouver, Edmonton, Montreal and Toronto. After enjoying 30 years of a precipitously declining homicide rate in Canada, the rate has begun slightly to rise again. Swaggering young Nasty Boys and Girls fire at will into crowds and kill innocent passersby or their rivals in love and…