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Chartered Fight

When provinces and the bench butt heads

In Little Jamaica

Stories from a changing neighbourhood

The Devil Is in the Details

Canada’s legalization of marijuana raises a host of policy and health questions

Elliott Leyton

Elliott Leyton is past president of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association and Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He is the author of a dozen books, including The Myth of Delinquency: An Anatomy of Juvenile Nihilism, published in 1979 by McClelland and Stewart and later by Oxford University Press.

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Elliott Leyton

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…