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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

Kevin R. Reitz

Kevin R. Reitz is the James Annenberg La Vea Professor of Criminal Procedure at the University of Minnesota Law School. He is co-author, with Henry Ruth, of The Challenge of Crime: Rethinking Our Response and serves as reporter for the American Law Institute’s Model Penal Code: Sentencing project.

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Lessons Unlearned

Despite disasters in U.S. crime policy, Canada cracks down March 2012
Canada has lurched to the right in its criminal justice policies, which invites a number of unflattering comparisons to the United States. In Fearmonger: Stephen Harper’s Tough-on-Crime Agenda, Paula Mallea mounts a comprehensive attack on the Conservative government’s crime agenda dating back to 2006, including many proposals that appear destined to become law in…